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)

1. (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