sulfide
sulfide
Definition
sul·fide (sul′fīd′)
noun
a compound of sulfur with another element or a radical
sulfide
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- use: Most inexpensive photosensors use cadmium sulfide as the active element for light detection.
Modifies a noun
- gas: He was overcome by hydrogen sulfide gas and fell into the water.
- mineralization: These zones of sulfide mineralization have been termed the Chapel, Engine, Deep Engine, South Central and North Central Zones.
- mineral: In marine aquatic sediments the precipitation of highly stable sulfide minerals ( e.g.
Noun used with modifier
- dimethyl: The growing patch of phytoplankton also produced significant quantities of dimethyl sulfide, a gas known to be important in cloud formation.
- hydrogen: The gases normally present in the gastrointestinal tract are oxygen, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, hydrogen, methane, and hydrogen sulfide.
- iron: An important chemical precipitate that formed on mixing of the spring water and the seawater was iron sulfide.
- cadmium: Electronic photosensors are more costly than cadmium sulfide cells but savings in energy costs generally justify their installation.
- selenium: If these are not adequate, I dispense selenium sulfide or benzyl peroxide shampoos.
- calcium: Addition of it to water separated the soluble sodium carbonate from the calcium sulfide.
Browse dictionary entries near sulfide
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- sulfonamide
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- sulfone
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- sulfonic acid
- sulfonium
- sulfonmethane
