How to Use sulfide in a Sentence

sulfide

noun

• Among the molecules found by Webb was dimethyl sulfide.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 16 Jan. 2024
• The company struck a deal with the government of Papua New Guinea to mine sulfides off the country’s coast.
  — WIRED, 28 Feb. 2023
• Others have pumps to suck a bite dry, or sulfide to sterilize it.
  — Kyle Dickman, Outside Online, 20 June 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Norway is instead looking to exploit the cobalt-rich crusts and polymetallic sulfides on its seabed.
  — Eliza Gkritsi, WIRED, 12 Jan. 2024
• Plants draw in carbonyl sulfide along with carbon dioxide.
  — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2017
• 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
• Metals like gold and copper that occur in sulfide ore bodies have not been mined in Wisconsin since the Flambeau mine shut down in 1997.
  — Chicago Tribune, 10 May 2023
• The manganese sulfide episode echoes a scientific scandal two decades ago at Bell Labs in New Jersey.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 26 July 2023
• 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
• Along with all the lava, the volcano released lots of carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide.
  — Scientific American Blog Network, 21 Apr. 2017
• Hydrogen sulfide is not known to cause cancer in humans.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 14 Mar. 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 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Evers noted that the law does give companies that want to develop sulfide mines in Wisconsin a way to move forward.
  — Jason Stein, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Oct. 2017
• Twelve streams on the Tennessee side of the park are listed as impaired, due to high sulfide and nitrogen emissions caused by fossil-fuel burning.
  — Jon Waterman, Outside Online, 15 June 2020
• But Xin and colleagues say the ferric sulfide clusters allow a more capable form of navigation to take place.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 30 June 2021
• Iron sulfide, better known as pyrite or fool's gold, could have a new lease on the high life after researchers turned it into a magnet using an electrical treatment.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 31 July 2020
• Hydrogen sulfide sometimes fills the air near the shrinking lake as decaying algae and other matter on the lake bottom are disturbed by winds.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2021
• 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
• As new land was uncovered, plants sprang up and began destroying carbonyl sulfide.
  — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2017
• The higher gold and copper grades could imply the mineralization is near a VMS vent (or vents) with potential for massive sulfide mineralized layers near to these vents.
  — Kansas City Star, 28 May 2024
• However, tea tree oil is not as well-studied as antifungals like zinc, ketoconazole, and selenium sulfide.
  — April Benshosan, Verywell Health, 9 May 2024

Last Updated: 18 Aug 2024