Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Mingled with sulphur; of the yellow color of sulphur.
  • noun A sulphid: as, sulphurate of antimony, Sb2S3.
  • To impregnate or combine with sulphur; also, to subject to the action of sulphur.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb (Chem.), Archaic To sulphurize.
  • adjective Poetic & R. Sulphureous.

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  • verb Alternative spelling of sulfurate.

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Examples

  • I washed her eyes with boric acid and dropped a little cocaine and a feeble solution of sulphurate of zinc into them.

    Beasts, Men and Gods Ferdinand Ossendowski 1910

  • Pure atmosphere does not act upon silver; but we do not have this about in our operating rooms, as it is more or less charged with sulphurated hydrogen, which soon tarnishes the surface of the plate with a film of brown sulphurate.

    American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype 1853

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