Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as sulphid.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Chem.), obsolescent A sulphide.

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  • noun Obsolete spelling of sulfuret.

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Examples

  • Such was the case with the two specimens which Cyrus Harding had brought back, one of magnetic iron, not carbonated, the other a pyrite, also called sulphuret of iron.

    The Mysterious Island 2005

  • Such was the case with the two specimens which Cyrus Harding had brought back, one of magnetic iron, not carbonated, the other a pyrite, also called sulphuret of iron.

    The Mysterious Island 2005

  • Either native, or in the form of ore; it is often found mixed with silver, but more frequently with sulphur in the form of sulphuret, which is decomposed by distillation.

    A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery. With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural Phenomena. For the Use of Schools and Families. Enlarged and Revised Edition. Anonymous

  • That sold in the bazars is not the real grey ore of antimony but a galena or sulphuret of lead.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • These shistose pyrites being composed principally of coal, flint, alumina, and sulphuret of iron — the latter in excess — it was necessary to separate the sulphuret of iron, and transform it into sulphate as rapidly as possible.

    The Mysterious Island 2005

  • They then left the transformation to complete itself, and it would not take less than ten or twelve days for the sulphuret of iron to be changed to sulphate of iron and the alumina into sulphate of alumina, two equally soluble substances, the others, flint, burnt coal, and cinders, not being so.

    The Mysterious Island 2005

  • These shistose pyrites being composed principally of coal, flint, alumina, and sulphuret of iron — the latter in excess — it was necessary to separate the sulphuret of iron, and transform it into sulphate as rapidly as possible.

    The Mysterious Island 2005

  • They were finished before the transformation of the sulphuret into sulphate of iron had been accomplished.

    The Mysterious Island 2005

  • They were finished before the transformation of the sulphuret into sulphate of iron had been accomplished.

    The Mysterious Island 2005

  • They then left the transformation to complete itself, and it would not take less than ten or twelve days for the sulphuret of iron to be changed to sulphate of iron and the alumina into sulphate of alumina, two equally soluble substances, the others, flint, burnt coal, and cinders, not being so.

    The Mysterious Island 2005

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