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bisulfide

n. (context dated English) disulfide.

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Bisulfide

Bisulfide (systematically named sulfanide and hydrogen(sulfide)(1−)) is an inorganic anion with the chemical formula HS (also written as SH). It contributes no color to bisulfide salts, and its salts may have a distinctive putrid smell. It is classified as a strong base, bisulfide solutions are corrosive and attack the skin.

Bisulfide is the simplest thiolate. It is an important chemical reagent and industrial chemical, mainly used in textiles, synthetic flavors, coloring brasses, and iron control.

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Besides the bluish deposit Ken had noted on the metal, which he was now able to show contained oxides, there was a looser encrustation in several more protected spots which gave a definite potassium spectrumone of the few that Ken could readily recognizeand also a distinct odor of carbon bisulfide when heated.