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disulphide

British  
/ daɪˈsʌlfaɪd /

noun

  1. Also called (not in technical usage): bisulphide.  any chemical compound containing two sulphur atoms per molecule

"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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As this happens very quickly, the researchers virtually "blocked" the elevator by specifically inserting anchors, so-called disulphide bridges.

From Science Daily • Jan. 8, 2024

I could apply a dry coating of tungsten disulphide to the BTUs, like I’d read about on gun forums.

From The Verge • Mar. 9, 2022

Whittingham put metallic lithium in one end and a layered material called titanitum disulphide at the other; the titanium had spaces that could capture the flowing electrons.

From Scientific American • Oct. 9, 2019

Furthermore, in several GPCRs, ECL3 contains an additional intra-loop disulphide bridge within a CXnC motif that possibly influences receptor function by limiting the conformational freedom available to the loop.

From Nature • Feb. 13, 2013

Water 10� 0.3101 0.3338 0.2068 0.2061 Carbon disulphide 10� 0.4347 0.4977 0.2898 0.2805 Chloroform 10� 0.2694 0.3000 0.1796 0.1790   Landolt and Gladstone, and at a later date J.W.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" by Various

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