How to Use hydrogen sulfide in a Sentence

hydrogen sulfide

noun

• It’s the rancid odor of hydrogen sulfide coming from the lake.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2020
• The odor test showed the lake’s hydrogen sulfide levels were at 0.3 parts per million.
  — Shawn Raymundo, The Arizona Republic, 16 Mar. 2024
• The highest hydrogen sulfide reading was about a fourth of the EPA's limit.
  — Laura Gómez, azcentral, 7 May 2018
• As the three men walked across the site, a sinkhole of hot oil and hydrogen sulfide opened beneath Taylor’s feet and swallowed him.
  — ProPublica, 18 Sep. 2020
• Methane and hydrogen sulfide are now burned off and the sewery stink has been subdued.
  — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 14 Aug. 2020
• Martínez Lara doesn't have the luxury of avoiding the hydrogen sulfide gas.
  — Mark Stevenson, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2022
• The toxic hydrogen sulfide can also harm corals, and wafts the scent of rotten eggs across beaches.
  — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2023
• And signs next to open pools of wastewater warn about toxic emissions of hydrogen sulfide.
  — Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2023
• This makes your body produce hydrogen sulfide gas and leads to farting.
  — Men's Health, 1 Feb. 2023
• Dead zones in the oceans today emit poisonous hydrogen sulfide.
  — Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 29 June 2019
• Breathing in the mix of hydrogen sulfide, carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide in the cave can kill a person.
  — Eleanor C. Hasenbeck, The Know, 5 Sep. 2019
• The gas was reported to be hydrogen sulfide and butane.
  — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2023
• Some of the marine bacteria that move in when a ship sinks munch on sulfur and release a compound called hydrogen sulfide.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 24 Aug. 2018
• If the gas — hydrogen sulfide — is released, residents will be notified and would need to be removed from the area, Ige said.
  — NBC News, 23 May 2018
• Its oil comes out of the ground with a potentially fatal gas, hydrogen sulfide.
  — Stanley Reed, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2019
• Leaking hydrogen sulfide, which reeks of rotten eggs, has turned the air toxic, making each breath burn.
  — Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 22 Feb. 2024
• Fortunately, the hydrogen sulfide gas that’s the cause of the smell has begun, after more than five weeks, to diminish.
  — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2021
• The top notes, very volatile and quickly dispersed, are ammonia and hydrogen sulfide.
  — Harold McGee, Wired, 6 Nov. 2020
• One scientist has warned that Istanbul will come to stink of bad eggs from hydrogen sulfide.
  — New York Times, 21 June 2018
• Scientists were in the area looking for a cold seep — fissures in the seafloor where gases like methane and hydrogen sulfide bubble out.
  — Mark Price, Anchorage Daily News, 20 July 2023
• One of the dogs fell into a cistern used to collect rainwater, which had also filled with hydrogen sulfide gas.
  — David Matthews New York Daily News (tns), al, 11 Aug. 2023
• Mount Hood is an active volcano, so climbers are used to a rotten egg odor that often comes from hydrogen sulfide that vents through the rocks in areas called fumaroles.
  — Lauren M. Johnson, CNN, 8 Dec. 2020
• For one thing, they are often filled with dissolved hydrogen sulfide, a poisonous substance that can be absorbed through the skin and cause headaches, dizziness and nausea.
  — Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2022
• The notices allege the emissions of hydrogen sulfide caused a public nuisance.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2021
• Aside from lending credence to Uranus jokes, the hydrogen sulfide discovery sheds light (or maybe smell) on how planets and the solar system formed, the release said.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 24 Apr. 2018
• The creatures of the deep are adapted to the pressure, the cold, and other extreme conditions, such as low oxygen levels or high levels of hydrogen sulfide.
  — Joel Achenbach, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2023
• According to Sheriff Cook, the opening of the hole the victims fell into was roughly 4 feet wide and contained 8 feet of water, as well as hydrogen sulfide gas.
  — Nikki Dobrin, Peoplemag, 12 Aug. 2023
• At times the plant was also discharging methane at levels that could be flammable and hydrogen sulfide in amounts that could cause injury or death if it was inhaled.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2021
• For example, protein-rich foods like beef, eggs, pork, fish, and poultry are rich in sulfur—which the gut bacteria turns into hydrogen sulfide, a foul-smelling gas resembling rotten eggs.
  — Cristina Mutchler, Health, 31 July 2024
• The nuisance of the rotten-egg smell is a byproduct of bacteria producing hydrogen sulfide during decomposition.
  — Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024