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Definition of Sulphide

1. Noun. A compound of sulphur and some other element that is more electropositive.

Definition of Sulphide

1. n. A binary compound of sulphur, or one so regarded; -- formerly called sulphuret.

Definition of Sulphide

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of sulfide) ¹

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Definition of Sulphide

1. sulfide [n -S] - See also: sulfide

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sulphide

Literary usage of Sulphide

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1922)
"A solution of sodium sulphide is made up with pure distilled water and ... The solution is then diluted to contain exactly 0.01% of sulphide sulphur. ..."

2. Manual of Qualitative Chemical Analysis by C. Remigius Fresenius (1897)
"Treatment of the Precipitate produced by Hydrogen sulphide with Ammonium sulphide: Separation of the 2d Division of Group V from Group VI. ..."

3. Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1917)
"Mercury is precipitated as a sulphide from an acid solution of the mercuric salt by hydrogen sulphide, together with the members of the hydrogen sulphide ..."

4. American Druggist (1885)
"Magnesium Hydro-sulphide. HYDROGEN sulphide obtained from ordinary iron sulphide, ... Where, therefore, as in most laboratories, hydrogen sulphide gas is in ..."

5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1885)
"The equivalent weights of the water and calcium sulphide as the resultants ... Calcium sulphide. — As the formation of calcium sulphide is involved in the ..."

6. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1887)
"HAVING occasion several years since to make ferrous sulphide, I attempted to do ... A very nice-looking sulphide was obtained ; but on attempting to use it, ..."

7. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"Hydrogen sulphide, yellow precipitate, soluble in ammonium sulphide and in ammonium carbonate ... Hydrogen sulphide, in acid but not in neutral solution, ..."

8. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1833)
"Most metals when heated in the gas decompose it, a metallic sulphide being ... Hydrogen sulphide dissolves in water, a saturated solution containing about ..."

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