sulphides

A salt of the class formed by the combination of an acid and a base, or by the union of two oxides, two sulphides, selenides, or tellurides, as distinguished from a haloid compound.

A stratum in crystalline rock, containing metallic sulphides. n

potassium), and consists essentially of alkaline sulphides

The hydrosulphides are analogous to the hydrates and include the mercaptans.

Any one of series of compounds, hydrosulphides of alcohol radicals, in composition resembling the alcohols, but containing sulphur in place of oxygen, and hence called also the sulphur alcohols