How to Use sulfide in a Sentence

sulfide

noun
  • Others have pumps to suck a bite dry, or sulfide to sterilize it.
    — Kyle Dickman, Outside Online, 20 June 2018
  • Hydrogen sulfide is a foul-smelling gas that can be toxic at high levels.
    — CBS News, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Many of the foods that contribute to stinky breath do so by releasing sulfides.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 5 May 2020
  • Some headed to the places that seemed most likely to yield these magmatic sulfides.
    — Josh Goldman, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Apr. 2023
  • Back in play' The challenge of sulfide mining centers on waste rock as a source of acid mining drainage.
    — Lee Bergquist, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Sep. 2017
  • In 2023, a team found signs of the gas dimethyl sulfide, alongside methane and oxygen.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 28 Dec. 2025
  • Norway is instead looking to exploit the cobalt-rich crusts and polymetallic sulfides on its seabed.
    — Eliza Gkritsi, WIRED, 12 Jan. 2024
  • As new land was uncovered, plants sprang up and began destroying carbonyl sulfide.
    — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2017
  • Selenium sulfide and zinc pyrithione treat the source of the problem by reducing the amount of fungus on the scalp.
    — Leeann Duggan, Allure, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Small blebs of iron-rich sulfides inside these meteorites’ diamonds provide key clues.
    — Sid Perkins, Science | AAAS, 17 Apr. 2018
  • And among all this life, minerals build up slowly over millennia in the form of sulfide deposits and manganese crusts.
    — Christian Elliott, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Apr. 2025
  • On Earth, that gas – called dimethyl sulfide – is mostly produced by living organisms.
    — Daniel Apai, The Conversation, 18 Apr. 2025
  • That's because minerals such as copper are buried in sulfide-bearing rock that must be crushed for the copper to be released.
    — Jennifer Bjorhus, Star Tribune, 19 July 2021
  • To resolve those unknowns, the team’s next step is to pinpoint how the worm’s sulfide armor forms at the molecular level.
    — New Atlas, 16 Nov. 2025
  • Along with all the lava, the volcano released lots of carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide.
    — Scientific American Blog Network, 21 Apr. 2017
  • Often, that means breaking chemical bonds that keep minerals bound to sulfur in sulfide ores.
    — Vanessa Bates Ramirez, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Hydrogen sulfide could be in the sediment, which can kill fish and other life if there is a high enough concentration.
    — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Yet all of these can come from abiotic sources, such as ozone from water vapor in the atmosphere, or sulfides from volcanoes.
    — WIRED, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Glass with the nickel sulfide imperfection will then expand and break — before it is installed in the building.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Feb. 2023
  • The ore contains sulfide, which when exposed to oxygen and water, leaches acid, a major problem for copper mines.
    — Jack Brook, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 July 2020
  • The kind of exploration proposed is called hard-rock mining, because the copper is encased in sulfide-bearing ore.
    — Alex Kotlowitz, The New Yorker, 17 July 2019
  • The researchers think the clouds are full of chloride salts, such as potassium chloride, and/or sulfide salts, such as manganese sulfide.
    — Jeanna Bryner, Scientific American, 18 June 2026
  • That was until the researchers saw the armored scales, or sclerites, that covered its foot, as well as the iron-sulfide-rich outer layer of its shell.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Sniffer turtles Turtles use a range of airborne cues—including dimethyl sulfide—to alert them to the presence of food.
    — Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 14 Mar. 2020
  • New chemistry in the race The solid-state race is largely a four-way sprint between sulfide, oxide, polymer, and halide chemistries.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 15 Apr. 2026
  • That change benefited mud microbes that convert sulfates in the saltwater to plant-killing sulfides.
    — Bywarren Cornwall, science.org, 9 Jan. 2025
  • The water is then transferred to a water treatment facility, where sulfide is removed.
    — Catherine Muccigrosso, Charlotte Observer, 3 Feb. 2025
  • The tarnish on silver is often silver sulfide, which is created when sulfur atoms combine with the silver.
    — Laura Lambert, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 June 2020
  • Meng said sulfides could provide a new class of protective coatings inside lithium-ion batteries.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 13 Mar. 2026
  • The company plans to bury the waste bedrock in old portions of the mine and remove nearly all sulfides from ore-bearing rock during processing.
    — Steve Karnowski, Twin Cities, 18 Dec. 2019

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