zinc sulfide

1. 1.

   a yellow to white crystalline fluorescent compound that occurs naturally as sphalerite or wurtzite and is used as a luminous pigment

   Synonymszinc sulphide

   Broadersulfide

Questions about zinc sulfide

What does zinc sulfide mean?

zinc sulfide means "a yellow to white crystalline fluorescent compound that occurs naturally as sphalerite or wurtzite and is used as a luminous pigment".

What is another word for zinc sulfide?

Close synonyms include zinc sulphide. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is zinc sulfide a common word?

zinc 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.