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  • noun (Chem.) A sulphide containing three atoms of sulphur.

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  • noun Alternative spelling of trisulfide.

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Examples

  • The two sulphides of antimony are called the trisulphide and the pentasulphide respectively.

    An Elementary Study of Chemistry William McPherson

  • The results which we obtained by combining atoxyl with arsenic trisulphide or arsenious iodide have been very satisfactory and we hope that this new drug treatment may be used in human trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness which is raging at the present time among the natives of Equatorial Africa and of which there are more and more cases among Europeans.

    Alphonse Laveran - Nobel Lecture 1967

  • He found that when the abdominal cavity of guinea-pigs contained a great quantity of white corpuscles, these cells saved the animals from fatal poisoning by phagocytising the crystals of the arsenic trisulphide.

    Ilya Mechnikov - Nobel Lecture 1967

  • He selected arsenic trisulphide, the crystals of which are absorbed and modified by the phagocytes with avidity.

    Ilya Mechnikov - Nobel Lecture 1967

  • The triselenide is less volatile than the trisulphide, and is pale green in color.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 Various

  • Very fine crystals of the trisulphide may be obtained by heating a quantity of the porcelain-like form to 300° at the bottom of a closed tube whose upper portion is cooled by water.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 Various

  • Nature_ gives the following: Hitherto only one compound of boron with sulphur has been known to us, the trisulphide, B_ {2} S_ {3}, and concerning even that our information has been of the most incomplete description.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 Various

  • The same substance is obtained when the trisulphide is heated in a current of hydrogen; a portion volatilizes, and is deposited again further along the tube, while the residue fuses, and becomes reduced to the unalterable subsulphide B_ {4} S, sulphureted hydrogen passing away in the stream of gas.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 Various

  • Now a potent-smelling component of garlic oil called diallyl trisulphide DATS may help "release protective compounds to the heart," stated the researchers, who presented their findings on Wednesday at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions in Orlando, Florida.

    NYDN Rss 2011

  • In the study researchers from the Emory University School of Medicine were examining treatment options for cardiac patients, and their findings suggest that the treatment of hydrogen sulphide gas -- which is considered unstable and dissipates quickly -- could possible be replaced with injectable diallyl trisulphide, which helped reduce the amount of heart tissue damage by 61 percent.

    NYDN Rss 2011

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