Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Mingled with sulphur; of the yellow color of sulphur.
- noun A sulphid: as, sulphurate of antimony, Sb2S3.
- To impregnate or combine with sulphur; also, to subject to the action of sulphur.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Poetic & R. Sulphureous.
- transitive verb (Chem.), Archaic To sulphurize.
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- verb Alternative spelling of
sulfurate .
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Examples
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I washed her eyes with boric acid and dropped a little cocaine and a feeble solution of sulphurate of zinc into them.
Beasts, Men and Gods Ferdinand Ossendowski 1910
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Pure atmosphere does not act upon silver; but we do not have this about in our operating rooms, as it is more or less charged with sulphurated hydrogen, which soon tarnishes the surface of the plate with a film of brown sulphurate.
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