sulphurate

/ ˈsʌlfjʊˌreɪt /

verb

1. tr to combine or treat with sulphur or a sulphur compound

Derived Forms

• ˌsulphuˈration, noun

Example Sentences

And who else but he and the sulphurate of potash--which, however, confines itself solely to metals--must know how to precipitate all saints and all devils black?

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It is obvious that his heart, where his wasted sulphurate hand is placed, beats too hard and presses his spongy lungs and the tumor of water which distends him.

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Pure atmosphere does not act upon silver; but we do not have this about in our operating rooms, as it is more or less charged with sulphurated hydrogen, which soon tarnishes the surface of the plate with a film of brown sulphurate.

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I washed her eyes with boric acid and dropped a little cocaine and a feeble solution of sulphurate of zinc into them.

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