hydrogen sulfide

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   a sulfide having the unpleasant smell of rotten eggs

   Broadersulfide

Questions about hydrogen sulfide

What does hydrogen sulfide mean?

hydrogen sulfide means "a sulfide having the unpleasant smell of rotten eggs".

Is hydrogen sulfide a common word?

hydrogen sulfide is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.