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carbon disulphide

noun

  1. 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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

After the solution was boneblacked, the yellow precipitate was recrystallized from carbon disulphide.

It is readily soluble in carbon disulphide, forming a yellow solution.

The magnet no longer attracts it; carbon disulphide will not dissolve sulphur from it.

It is insoluble in water, but is freely soluble in a few liquids, notably in carbon disulphide.

When treated with carbon disulphide, the crystals dissolve, leaving the amorphous particles as a white residue.

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