zinc sulphide

1. 1.

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

   Synonymszinc sulfide

   Broadersulfide

Questions about zinc sulphide

What does zinc sulphide mean?

zinc sulphide 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 sulphide?

Close synonyms include zinc sulfide. 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 sulphide a common word?

zinc sulphide 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.