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possess, produce, or receive, acid rather than basic properties; a metalloid; as, oxygen, sulphur, and chlorine are nonmetals.

Resembling, or possessing the properties of, a nonmetal or metalloid; as, sulphur is a nonmetallic element.

l compounds, as acids from which the real acids are obtained by dehydration; thus, normal sulphuric acid and normal nitric acid are respectively S(OH)6, and N(OH)5.

acterized by its comparatively large content of phosphorus. It also contains nitrogen and sulphur.

A volatile liquid obtained by boiling sulphur with linseed oil. It has an unpleasant garlic odor.

Pertaining to an acid now called sulphovinic, or ethyl sulphuric, acid.

r combined, as iron, lead, etc. Usually the ores contain the metals combined with oxygen, sulphur, arsenic, etc. (called mineralizers).

mpounds; also, by extension, to other elements sometimes found in the same connection; as sulphur, phosphorus, etc.

mic acid. (Chem.) (a) Osmic tetroxide. [Obs.] (b) Osmic acid proper, an acid analogous to sulphuric acid, not known in the free state, but forming a well-known and stable series of salts (osmates), which were formerly improperly called osmites. -- Osmic tetroxide (Chem.), a white volatile crystalline substance, OsO4,…

e. [Written also osmous.] Osmious acid (Chem.), an acid derived from osmium, analogous to sulphurous acid, and forming unstable salts. It is a brown amorphous substance.

me bearing it, has a valence lower than that denoted by the termination -ic; as, nitrous, sulphurous, etc., as contrasted with nitric, sulphuric, etc.

An acid containing oxygen, as chloric acid or sulphuric acid; - - contrasted with the hydracids, which contain no oxygen, as hydrochloric acid. See Acid, and Hydroxy-.

A ternary compound of oxygen and sulphur.

Imitation parchment, made by soaking unsized paper in dilute sulphuric acid.

To convert to a parchmentlike substance, esp. by sulphuric acid.

A friction match that contains little or no sulphur.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of sulphur obtained by leading hydrogen sulphide into a solution of sulphur dioxide; -- so called because it contains five atoms of sulphur.

A sulphide containing more sulphur than some other compound of the same elements; as, iron pyrites is a persulphide; -- formerly called persulphuret.

nce (called also perthiocyanic acid), analogous to sulphocyanic acid, but containing more sulphur.

A tasteless white crystalline substance, extracted from the roots of the sulphurwort (Peucedanum), masterwort (Imperatoria), and other related plants; -- called also imperatorin.