carbon disulphide
a colourless slightly soluble volatile flammable poisonous liquid commonly having a disagreeable odour due to the presence of impurities: used as an organic solvent and in the manufacture of rayon and carbon tetrachloride. Formula: CS 2: Also called (not in technical usage): carbon bisulphide
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How to use carbon disulphide in a sentence
After the solution was boneblacked, the yellow precipitate was recrystallized from carbon disulphide.
It is readily soluble in carbon disulphide, forming a yellow solution.
An Elementary Study of Chemistry | William McPhersonThe magnet no longer attracts it; carbon disulphide will not dissolve sulphur from it.
An Elementary Study of Chemistry | William McPhersonIt is insoluble in water, but is freely soluble in a few liquids, notably in carbon disulphide.
An Elementary Study of Chemistry | William McPhersonWhen treated with carbon disulphide, the crystals dissolve, leaving the amorphous particles as a white residue.
An Elementary Study of Chemistry | William McPherson
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