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

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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

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