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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sulphide
noun
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■ NOUN
hydrogen
▪ Sulphur bacteria may be present below the anoxic zone, reducing sulphate ions and liberating hydrogen sulphide.
▪ So the sewage goes septic, giving off hydrogen sulphide which corrodes the pipes and makes a nasty smell.
▪ These included methane, ammonia, probably hydrogen cyanide, hydrogen sulphide and carbon monoxide.
▪ Instead of splitting hydrogen sulphide, they developed the ability to split water by first trapping solar energy in green pigments.
▪ The outlet can contain nitrite or hydrogen sulphide.
▪ Gas compositions are normalised to exclude hydrogen sulphide because of poor analytical reproducibility for this gas.
▪ Apparently they were thriving on hydrogen sulphide from the rotting beams of the ship.
▪ Later in the spoilage process other components, such as the sulphurous notes from hydrogen sulphide, may add to the smell.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A cadmium sulphide paste is printed through a screen on to a glass substrate.
▪ A source of silver much exploited in early times was lead sulphide, most notably galena, containing varying proportions of silver.
▪ Hydrogen sulphide can destroy both plants and fish.
▪ Hydrogen sulphide was probably a relatively rare commodity, even in ancient times.
▪ People who harbour sulphate reducing bacteria in their large bowel have higher levels of sulphide in their faeces than methanogenic subjects.
▪ Reinterpreted as an Ordovician volcanogenic massive and disseminated sulphide deposit.
▪ So the sewage goes septic, giving off hydrogen sulphide which corrodes the pipes and makes a nasty smell.
▪ These included methane, ammonia, probably hydrogen cyanide, hydrogen sulphide and carbon monoxide.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sulphide

Sulphide \Sul"phide\, n. (Chem.) A binary compound of sulphur, or one so regarded; -- formerly called sulphuret.

Double sulphide (Chem.), a compound of two sulphides.

Hydrogen sulphide. (Chem.) See under Hydrogen.

Metallic sulphide, a binary compound of sulphur with a metal.

Wiktionary
sulphide

n. 1 (label en British spelling chemistry) (alternative spelling of sulfide English) 2 A kind of clear marble with a small statuette or figure inside.

WordNet
sulphide

n. a compound of sulphur and some other element that is more electropositive [syn: sulfide]

Wikipedia
Sulphide (disambiguation)

Sulphide (the British English spelling of " sulfide") is a chemical term associated with the following chemical classes:

  • Sulfide
  • Bisulfide
  • Disulfide

It can also be associated with the name of a geographic location:

Usage examples of "sulphide".

A special test for sulphide may be made by adding a drop or two of solution of acetate of lead to four or five c.

The two filtrates are mixed and treated with a little acetic acid, and the cobalt and nickel are then precipitated as sulphides by a current of sulphuretted hydrogen.

Zinc is detected by dissolving the substance in hydrochloric or nitric acid, boiling, and adding sodic hydrate in excess, filtering, and adding ammonic sulphide to the filtrate.

It oxidises most combustible substances with deflagration, and thereby converts sulphides into sulphates, arsenides into arsenates, and most metals into oxides.

The Rossland, the Boundary and the Kootenay districts are the chief centres of vein-mining, yielding auriferous and cupriferous sulphide ores, as well as large quantities of silver-bearing lead ores.

Sulphide of antimony is also a constituent of fahlerz and of many silver ores.

But in defining a reducing agent as one which removes oxygen, or sulphur, from a metallic compound so as to set the metal free, it must be remembered that sulphur itself will reduce metallic lead from fused litharge, and that oxygen will similarly set free the metal in fused lead sulphide.

For example, this occurs in the case of a mixture of pyrites with oxide of iron, or in a mixture of sulphides and sulphates.

Free or native sulphur may be volatilised, condensed, and weighed, but pyrites only gives up a portion of its sulphur when heated in a closed vessel, while most sulphides, and all sulphates, give up none at all.

The copper is separated from the solution as sulphide by means of a rapid current of sulphuretted hydrogen.

Mercury, which if present would interfere, is separated because of the insolubility of its sulphide in nitric acid.

If nickel is present, the few milligrams of copper remaining in the electrolysed solution should be separated with sulphuretted hydrogen, the precipitated sulphide dissolved in nitric acid, and determined colorimetrically.

The antimony is separated as sulphide, redissolved in hydrochloric acid, and oxidised with a crystal of chlorate of potash.

If the separated sulphide be heated in a borax bead, the colour obtained will be a sherry brown in the outer flame, and grey or colourless in the inner flame if nickel only is present.

It is filtered, washed, and transferred back to the beaker, and then digested with warm ammonic sulphide.