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Word Meanings - SULPHURET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A sulphide; as, a sulphuret of potassium.

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  • POTASSIUM
    An Alkali element, occurring abundantly but always combined, as in the chloride, sulphate, carbonate, or silicate, in the minerals sylvite, kainite, orthoclase, muscovite, etc. Atomic weight 39.0. Symbol K . Note: It is reduced from the carbonate
  • SULPHIDE
    A binary compound of sulphur, or one so regarded; -- formerly called sulphuret. Double sulphide , a compound of two sulphides. -- Hydrogen sulphide. See under Hydrogen. -- Metallic sulphide, a binary compound of sulphur with a metal.
  • SULPHURETED
    sulphide, under Hydrogen.
  • SULPHURET
    A sulphide; as, a sulphuret of potassium.
  • PROTOSULPHURET
    A protosulphide.
  • TERSULPHIDE
    A trisulphide.
  • OXYSULPHIDE
    A ternary compound of oxygen and sulphur.
  • SESQUISULPHIDE
    A sulphide, analogous to a sesquioxide, containing three atoms of sulphur to two of the other ingredient; -- formerly called also sesquisulphuret; as, orpiment, As2S3 is arsenic sesquisulphide.
  • MONOSULPHURET
    See MONOSULPHIDE
  • PERSULPHURET
    A persulphide.
  • DISULPHIDE
    A binary compound of sulphur containing two atoms of sulphur in each molecule; -- formerly called disulphuret. Cf. Bisulphide.
  • BISULPHURET
    See BISULPHIDE
  • DEUTOSULPHURET
    A disulphide.
  • TERSULPHURET
    A trisulphide.
  • POLYSULPHURET
    A polysulphide.
  • SUPERSULPHURETED
    Supersulphurized.
  • PERSULPHIDE
    A sulphide containing more sulphur than some other compound of the same elements; as, iron pyrites is a persulphide; -- formerly called persulphuret.
  • MONOSULPHIDE
    A sulphide containing one atom of sulphur, and analogous to a monoxide; -- contrasted with a Ant: polysulphide; as, galena is a monosulphide.
  • TRISULPHIDE
    A sulphide containing three atoms of sulphur.
  • DISULPHURET
    See DISULPHIDE
  • HYDROSULPHIDE
    One of a series of compounds, derived from hydrogen sulphide by the replacement of half its hydrogen by a base or basic radical; as, potassium hydrosulphide, KSH. The hydrosulphides are analogous to the hydrates and include the mercaptans.

 

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