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.