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sulfide

compound of sulfur with another element, 1831, from French sulfide; see sulfur + -ide.

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sulfide

alt. (context American spelling chemistry English) Any compound of sulfur and a metal or other electropositive element or group. n. (context American spelling chemistry English) Any compound of sulfur and a metal or other electropositive element or group.

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sulfide

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

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Sulfide

Sulfide (systematically named sulfanediide, and sulfide(2−)) is an inorganic anion of sulfur with the chemical formula S. It contributes no color to sulfide salts. As it is classified as a strong base, even dilute solutions of salts such as sodium sulfide (NaS) are corrosive and can attack the skin. Sulfide is the simplest sulfur anion.

Usage examples of "sulfide".

We checked into this, and, indeed, in all the hexes surrounding Yugash we found enormous quantities of copper, copper oxide, or copper sulfide, either in the physical composition of the creatures or in the atmosphere itself.

Mars interested her equally, so she could not have this focused knowledge of a single region, this way they had of reading it like a story, following its leads through the red rock to a patch of blackish sulfides, or the delicate cinnabar of mercury deposits.

On the monitor a chart appeared, giving the results from the analysis: bile pigments, stercobilin, urobilin, indole, nitrates, skatole, mercaptans, hydrogen sulfide.

It contains allyl sulfide compounds which are decidedly unhealthy for aphids and caterpillars.

No free oxygen remained: the atmosphere was nitrogen, its oxides, ammonia, hydrogen sulfide, sulfur dioxide, carbon dioxide, and steam.

It oxidizes copper sulfide, yielding acid and ferric ions, which in turn wash copper out of low grade ores.

To the water vapor now used for maneuvering he added some sulfides, the kind abundant in seismic gases.

The bacteria use hydrogen sulfide gas from the decaying sludge as energy.

There it rises - incidentally slowing any soul arriving ballistically - and then on the far side of the globe there is a corresponding down draft into a cold pit where the hydrogen sulfide reacts with oxygen to form water and sulfur.

Instead of being activated by light, zinc sulfide crystals are stimulated by alpha rays, supplied by trace amounts of radium -- no more than two parts per million -- mixed into the pigment compounds.

Finally, she settled on ammonium sulfide, that favorite of prankster children who hadn't come to grips with the fact that their Companions were recording their actions.

Without the red phosphorus, it takes more friction that most mortals can produce to get a rise out of the match head, which characteristically contains antimony sulfide, an oxidizing agent such as potassium chlorate, and sulfur or charcoal.

The potassium ethoxide will neutralize the sulfuric acid creating potassium sulfide in the process.

The greatest concentration of the chemical bomb (hydrogen sulfide: ingeniously implanted in the building's basement ventilating system) was at the front of the auditorium where the eighty-nine graduating seniors, their teachers and school district administrators were seated By the time the Patriot-Ledger printed its front-page article on the mysterious event, two days later, declaring in broad headlines STINK BOMB DISRUPTS MT.

Iklind wasn't breathing at all, and no wonderthe hydrogen sulfide concentration in here had peaked at over 1,000 ppm, according to the monitor above the open access hatch.