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

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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

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