hydrogen sulfide

English

Chemical formula for hydrogen sulfide

Alternative forms

hydrogen sulphide (UK)

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhaɪdɹədʒ(ə)n ˈsʌlfaɪd/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈhaɪdɹədʒən ˈsʌlfaɪd/

Noun

hydrogen sulfide (uncountable)

(inorganic chemistry) A toxic gas, H₂S, smelling like rotten eggs and used in analytical chemistry and industry.

Synonyms

rotten egg gas (informal), swamp gas (informal)

Translations

H₂S

Chinese:
Mandarin: 硫化氢 (zh) (liúhuàqīng)
Czech: sirovodík (cs) m
Dutch: waterstofsulfide (nl) n
Finnish: rikkivety (fi), vetysulfidi
French: sulfure d’hydrogène (fr) m, hydrogène sulfuré (fr) m
German: Schwefelwasserstoff (de) m
Hungarian: kén-hidrogén (hu), hidrogén-szulfid (hu)
Japanese: 硫化水素 (ja) (りゅうかすいそ, ryūka suiso)
Kazakh: күкіртті сутек (kükırttı sutek)
Korean: 황화수소(黃化水素) (hwanghwasuso), 유화수소(硫化水素) (ko) (yuhwasuso)
Latvian: sērūdeņradis m
Polish: siarkowodór (pl) m
Portuguese: sulfeto de hidrogênio m
Romanian: sulfură de hidrogen, hidrogen sulfurat (ro) n
Russian: сероводоро́д (ru) m (serovodoród), сульфи́д водоро́да m (sulʹfíd vodoróda)
Slovene: žveplovodik m
Spanish: sulfuro de hidrógeno m
Swedish: svavelväte (sv) n
Turkish: hidrojen sülfür

See also

Kipp's apparatus

Further reading

hydrogen sulfide on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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