SULPHIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sulphide mean? 

• SULPHIDE (noun)
  The noun SULPHIDE has 1 sense:

1. a compound of sulphur and some other element that is more electropositive

  Familiarity information: SULPHIDE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SULPHIDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A compound of sulphur and some other element that is more electropositive

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

sulfide; sulphide

Hypernyms ("sulphide" is a kind of...):

chemical compound; compound ((chemistry) a substance formed by chemical union of two or more elements or ingredients in definite proportion by weight)

Meronyms (substance of "sulphide"):

atomic number 16; S; sulfur; sulphur (an abundant tasteless odorless multivalent nonmetallic element; best known in yellow crystals; occurs in many sulphide and sulphate minerals and even in native form (especially in volcanic regions))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sulphide"):

pyrites (any of various metallic-looking sulfides (of which pyrite is the commonest))

hydrogen sulfide (a sulfide having the unpleasant smell of rotten eggs)

iron disulfide (a compound containing two atoms of sulfur combined with iron)

cadmium sulfide (a yellow sulfide used chiefly as a pigment)

zinc sulfide; zinc sulphide (a yellow to white crystalline fluorescent compound that occurs naturally as sphalerite or wurtzite and is used as a luminous pigment)

 Context examples 

The chemical balance of volcanic gases such as carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide (or sulphur dioxide and hydrogen sulphide) is generally thought to be controlled by the chemistry of the surrounding liquid magma but what the new findings showed is that when bubbles get large enough, most of the gas inside follows its own chemical pathway as the gas cools.

(Size matters: if you are a bubble of volcanic gas, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In addition to carbon and nitrogen isotope measurements, sulphide values ​​were also recorded for the El Barranquete samples, to achieve a more accurate picture of the role played by foods of marine origin, given that this necropolis is just a few kilometres from the Mediterranean Sea.

(Analysis of the Palaeolithic diet finds that, in the prehistoric age, for thousands of years there were no social divisions in food consumption, University of Granada)