sulphohydrate (sulfo hi drat)

[ radical SH, which contains one atom of sulphur and one of hydrogen: as, calcium sulphohydrate, Ca(SH)2. Also sulphydrate. matches, and for vulcanizing rubber. Refined sulphur, prepared by sublimation from the crude substance, is used in medicine as a laxative, diaphoretic, and resolvent; it is also largely employed in skin-diseases, both internally and externally. From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century casts or copies of antique gems were frequently made by pouring into a mold melted sulphur colored with metallic oxids. 2t. The supposed substance of lightning. To tear with thunder the wide cheeks o' the air, And yet to charge thy sulphur with a bolt That should but rive an oak. Shak ., Cor., v. 3. 152. 3. In zoöl., one of many different pieridine butterflies; a yellow pierian. These butterflies are of some shade of yellow, blanching to nearly white, or deepening to orange, and more or le marked with black. sulphureously They represent several genera. Colias philodice of the United States is the clouded sulphur; Call i dry as eubule is the cloudle sulphur. The former is one of the commonest of North American butterflies, often seen in flocks along roads, settling about mud-puddles and other moist spots. Its larva feeds upon clover. See cuts under Colias Pieris, and cabbage - butterfly. - An is a ted sulphur balsam, an electuary composed of oil of anise 5 parts, sulphur balsam 1 part. - Barbados sulphur balsam, a balsam composed of sulphur boiled with Barbados tar. - Clouded, cloudle sulphur. See def. 3.-Crude sulphur, the product of the distillation of native sulphur.-Flowers of sulphur, a yellow powder formed by condensing the vapor of sulphur.- Liver of sulphur. 390° F. and pouring it into water. It remains for some days soft and waxy, and then resumes a hard, brittle condition.-Stones of sulphurt, thunderbolts. The gods throw stones of sulphur on me, if That box I gave you was not thought by me A precious thing. Shak ., Cymbeline, v. 5. 240. Sulphur balsam, a balsam composed of 1 part of sulphur di olved in 8 parts of olive or linseed-oil.-Sulphur bath, a bath to which a pound of the flowers of sulphur has been added: used in the treatment of skin-diseases, -Sulphur group, the elementary substances sulphur, selenium, and tellurium: all have a strong attraction for oxygen. Sulphur ointment. See ointment. - Vegeta ble sulphur. Same as lycopode. II. a . Of the color of brimstone, or stick-sul phur; of a very greenish, exce ively luminous, and highly chromatic yellow: used in zoölogy in many obvious compounds: as, sulphur -bellied; sulphur -crested. A color-disk of two thirds bright chrome-yellow and one third emerald-green gives a some sulphur (sul'fer), v. t. [ sulphur-yellow. Immediately after or about the time they blo om, the vines are sulphured , to keep off the Oidium, which disease is still active in Portugal. Encyc . Brit ., XXIV. 60%. sulphurate (sul'fu-rāt), a. and n. [L. sulfur a tus, sulphur at us, impregnated with sulphur, Dr. H. More, Mystery of Godline , p. 189. II. n. A sulphid: as, sulphurate of antimony, Sb2S3.