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hydrogen sulfide
noun
- a colorless, flammable, water-soluble, cumulatively poisonous gas, H 2 S, having the odor of rotten eggs: used chiefly in the manufacture of chemicals, in metallurgy, and as a reagent in laboratory analysis.
hydrogen sulfide
- A colorless, poisonous gas that smells like rotten eggs. It is formed naturally by decaying organic matter and is the smelly component of intestinal gas. It is also emitted by volcanoes and fumaroles. Hydrogen sulfide is used in the petroleum, rubber, and mining industries, and in making sulfur. Chemical formula: H 2 S.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of hydrogen sulfide1
First recorded in 1870–75
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Example Sentences
Their hydrogen sulfide plant blew a crater in the ground a year ago.
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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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But there are two gases that he always remembers, chlorine and hydrogen sulfide.
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Hydrogen sulfide was what gave the characteristic aroma to rotten eggs, and sulfur dioxide wasn't exactly perfume.
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Hydrogen sulfide (H2S), one of the typical gases issuing from fumaroles, readily oxidizes to sulfuric acid and native sulfur.
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