sulfide

[ suhl-fahyd, -fid ]

noun

, Chemistry.

1. a compound of sulfur with a more electropositive element or, less often, a group.

sulfide

/ sŭl′fīd′ /

1. A chemical compound of sulfur and another element or radical, such as hydrogen sulfide.

Other Words From

• sub·sulfide noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of sulfide¹

1830–40; sulf(ur) + -ide ( def )

Example Sentences

While some microbes in the area produce sulfides, the cable bacteria remove those chemicals and help prevent them from moving up into the water column.

From Science News

It’s possible that being long helps the cells gain access to oxygen and sulfide, says Volland.

From Science News For Students

One possibility, Volland said, is that being centimeters long helps cells access both oxygen and sulfide, which the bacteria need to survive.

From Science News

In particular, she says, hydrogen sulfide gas—which stems from eating meat, eggs and fish—smells worse.

From Time

Certain bacteria can also produce another gas, hydrogen sulfide, but this type of SIBO does not have its own name.

From Time

Their hydrogen sulfide plant blew a crater in the ground a year ago.

From The Daily Beast

As the pupils of his eyes dilated he worked by touch, spreading a bit of powder on the end containing the special sulfide screen.

From Project Gutenberg

A man can live in a boiler factory or in a cubist art gallery, but he cannot live in a room containing hydrogen sulfide.

From Project Gutenberg

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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