diamyl sulfide

[ dahy-am-uhl ]

/ daɪˈæm əl /

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a yellow liquid consisting of a mixture of isomers having the formula (C5H11)2S, used chiefly in the preparation of organic sulfur compounds.

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The rainy weather could not ________ my elated spirits on my graduation day.

Also called amyl sulfide.

Their hydrogen sulfide plant blew a crater in the ground a year ago.
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As the pupils of his eyes dilated he worked by touch, spreading a bit of powder on the end containing the special sulfide screen.
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A man can live in a boiler factory or in a cubist art gallery, but he cannot live in a room containing hydrogen sulfide.
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Or if hydrogen sulfide is mixed with the acetylene we may get thiophenes, which have sulfur in the ring.
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The luminous watch dials consist of a coating of zinc sulfide under continual bombardment by the radium projectiles.
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But there are two gases that he always remembers, chlorine and hydrogen sulfide.
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