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g, a hypothetical sulphacid of phosphorus, analogous to phosphoric acid, and known in its salts.

ating, a hypothetical acid of phosphorus, analogous to phosphorous acid, and known in its salts.

A salt of sulphostannic acid.

A salt of sulphotungstic acid.

ungsten (called also sulphowolframic acid), analogous to sulphuric acid, and known in its salts.

ase (Chem.), an alkaline sulphide capable of acting as a base in the formation of sulphur salts according to the old dual theory of salts. [Archaic] -- Sulphur dioxide (Chem.), a colorless gas, SO2, of a pungent, suffocating odor, produced by the burning of sulphur. It is employed chiefly in the production of sulphuric…

a) Sulphur trioxide (see under Sulphur); -- formerly so called on the dualistic theory of salts. [Obs.] (b) A heavy, corrosive, oily liquid, H2SO4, colorless when pure, but usually yellowish or brownish, produced by the combined action of sulphur dioxide, oxygen (from the air), steam, and nitric fumes. It attacks and d…

tate except as a solution of sulphur dioxide in water, but forming a well-known series of salts (the sulphites). -- Sulphurous anhydride (Chem.), sulphur dioxide. See under Sulphur.

A compound, analogous to a hydrate, regarded as a salt of sulphydric acid, or as a derivative of hydrogen sulphide in which one half of the hydrogen is replaced by a base (as potassium sulphydrate, KSH), or as a hydrate in which the oxygen has been wholly or partially replaced by sulphur.

A pond of water for salt works. Knight.

Fresh; not salt or brackish; as, sweet water. Bacon.

A salt of sylvic acid.

occurring in yellowish masses which rapidly deliquesce upon exposure. It is found in the salt mines at Stassfurt.

A vitreous form of basalt; -- so called because decompposable by acids and readily fusible.

The goldfish. [Prov. Eng.] Salt-water tailor (Zoöl.), the bluefish. [Local, U.S.] Bartlett. -- Tailor bird (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of small Asiatic and East Indian singing birds belonging to Orthotomus, Prinia, and allied genera. They are noted for the skill with which they sew leaves together to form nes…

in spikes. An Arabian species (T. mannifera) is the source of one kind of manna. Tamarisk salt tree, an East Indian tree (Tamarix orientalis) which produces an incrustation of salt.

A salt of tannic acid.

yellow amorphous substance, C14H10O9, having an astringent taste, and forming with ferric salts a bluish-black compound, which is the basis of common ink. Called also tannin, and gallotannic acid.

A salt of tantalic acid.

A salt of tartramic acid.