Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In chem., a compound of sulphur and another element, containing two atoms of sulphur.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) See
bisulphide .
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- noun chemistry, archaic A
disulfide .
Etymologies
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Examples
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_ -- The ancient reds were very numerous, cinnabar, vermilion, bisulphuret of mercury, called also by Pliny and Vitruvius, minium.
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It was an iron cannon ball, or it was a "large nodule of iron pyrites or bisulphuret of iron."
The Book of the Damned Charles Fort
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It is soluble in benzine, in bisulphuret of carbon, chloroform, the essential oils and less so in ether and acetic acid.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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The method by _fumigation_, with calomel or bisulphuret, is now rarely employed.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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Through both these counties runs an extensive copper belt; the ore in Jackson county being mainly bisulphuret or green carbonate of copper.
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Ezek.xxiii. 14, both refer to the painting of walls and woodwork, a purpose to which it would be scarcely suitable, were not the article alluded to the opaque bisulphuret of mercury; and the same remark applies to the vermilion used by the Singhalese.
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836
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