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hydrogen sulphide

noun

  1. a colourless poisonous soluble flammable gas with an odour of rotten eggs: used as a reagent in chemical analysis. Formula: H 2 S Also calledsulphuretted hydrogen
“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

The precipitate was filtered, washed, and decomposed by hydrogen sulphide in a mixture of water and ether.

The alcoholic solution of this third lot gave no precipitate with hydrogen sulphide.

This powder will be referred to later as "P." The filtered liquid was freed from lead by hydrogen sulphide.

Hydrogen sulphide was passed into the ether solution mixed with water to remove the lead.

It was filtered off, washed free from lead acetate, decomposed by hydrogen sulphide, and shaken out with ether.

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