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hydrogen_sulfide

hydrogen sulfide

English

Alternative forms

hydrogen sulphide (UK)

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)
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 ‎(kükirtti swtek)

Korean: 황화수소 ‎(hwanghwasuso) (黃化水素), 유화수소 (ko) ‎(yuhwasuso) (硫化水素 (ko))
Polish: siarkowodór (pl) m
Romanian: sulfură de hidrogen
Russian: сероводоро́д (ru) m ‎(serovodoród), сульфи́д водоро́да m ‎(sulʹfíd vodoróda)
Spanish: sulfuro de hidrógeno m
Swedish: svavelväte n

See also

Kipp's apparatus