Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A colorless, flammable poisonous gas, H2S, having a characteristic rotten-egg odor and used as an antiseptic, a bleach, and a reagent.
Wiktionary
- n. inorganic chemistry A toxic gas, H2S, smelling like rotten eggs and used in analytical chemistry and industry.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a sulfide having the unpleasant smell of rotten eggs
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Stink Different™
What-the-smell is that?
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chained_bear "When Mayhew describes his repulsion at the smell of hydrogen sulfide on the streets of Bermondsey, you can see in the passage a clash between three distinct epochs somehow struggling to share the same space: an industrial-era city with an Elizabethan-era waste-removal system as perceived by a Pleistocene-era brain."
—Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map (New York: Penguin, 2006), 130 Oct 2, 2008