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.