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sulfide
[ suhl-fahyd, -fid ]
noun
- a compound of sulfur with a more electropositive element or, less often, a group.
sulfide
/ sŭl′fīd′ /
- A chemical compound of sulfur and another element or radical, such as hydrogen sulfide.
Other Words From
- sub·sulfide noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of sulfide1
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.
It’s possible that being long helps the cells gain access to oxygen and sulfide, says Volland.
One possibility, Volland said, is that being centimeters long helps cells access both oxygen and sulfide, which the bacteria need to survive.
In particular, she says, hydrogen sulfide gas—which stems from eating meat, eggs and fish—smells worse.
Certain bacteria can also produce another gas, hydrogen sulfide, but this type of SIBO does not have its own name.
Their hydrogen sulfide plant blew a crater in the ground a year ago.
As the pupils of his eyes dilated he worked by touch, spreading a bit of powder on the end containing the special sulfide screen.
A man can live in a boiler factory or in a cubist art gallery, but he cannot live in a room containing hydrogen sulfide.
Or if hydrogen sulfide is mixed with the acetylene we may get thiophenes, which have sulfur in the ring.
The luminous watch dials consist of a coating of zinc sulfide under continual bombardment by the radium projectiles.
But there are two gases that he always remembers, chlorine and hydrogen sulfide.
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