bisulphuret
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]bisulphuret (plural bisulphurets)
- (chemistry, archaic) A disulfide (functional group of two sulfur atoms).
- 1849, Joseph Jones, A plain instructor, page 186:
- Occasionally in the metallic or native state: but its usual ore is the bisulpheret, known as Cinnabar .
- 1885, St. Louis Clinical Review, page 358:
- When the papules are developed, nothing answers so well as lotion made with two grains of the bisulpheret of mercury in one ounce of almond-emulsion or glycerine of starch, used every night.