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hy′drogen sul′fide, 
  1. Chemistrya colorless, flammable, water-soluble, cumulatively poisonous gas, H2S, having the odor of rotten eggs: used chiefly in the manufacture of chemicals, in metallurgy, and as a reagent in laboratory analysis. Also called sulfureted hydrogen. 
  • 1870–75

'hydrogen sulfide' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
calcium sulfide - ethanolamine - ferrous sulfide - flatus - thioacetamide - thioaldehyde - sulfureted hydrogen
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