Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
sulphohydrate .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) A compound, analogous to a hydrate, regarded as a salt of sulphydric acid, or as a derivative of hydrogen sulphide in which one half of the hydrogen is replaced by a base (as potassium
sulphydrate , KSH), or as a hydrate in which the oxygen has been wholly or partially replaced by sulphur.
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- noun Alternative form of
sulfydrate .
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Examples
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Even in the absence of aluminium compounds, sulphuretted hydrogen may be found in the gases of an acetylene generator; here it probably arises from calcium sulphide, for although the latter is not decomposed by water, it gradually changes in water into calcium sulphydrate, which appears to suffer decomposition.
Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use W. J. Atkinson Butterfield
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The sulphydrate or hydrosulphide, Ca (SH) _2, is obtained as colourless, prismatic crystals of the composition Ca (SH) _2·6H_2O, by passing sulphuretted hydrogen into milk of lime.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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