Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
thiocarbonic .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a sulphacid, H2CSO2 (called also
thiocarbonic acid), or an acid, H2CS3, analogous to carbonic acid, obtained as a yellow oily liquid of a pungent odor, and forming salts.
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Examples
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In my glass tubes, I let Osmia-cocoons containing a live grub alternate with Osmia-cocoons in which the grub has been asphyxiated by the fumes of sulphocarbonic acid.
Bramble-Bees and Others Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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