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Definition: Sulphuric |
SulphuricAdjective1. Of or relating to or containing sulfur; "sulphuric esters". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sulphuric" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references) |
Etymology: Sulphuric \Sul*phu"ric\, adjective. [Compare to the French expression sulfurique.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: SulphuricSynonym: sulfuric (adj). (additional references) |
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 | Sulphuric acid fumes kills trees on top of Iron Mountain Mine. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Students in class learning how to prepare sulphuric acid, Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Copper mining and sulphuric acid plant. Copperhill, Tennessee. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Economic History | Australia | Key product segments are chlorine, titanium oxide, sodium cyanide, ammonia (industrial), caustic soda, sulphuric acid, and soda ash. (references) |
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| "Sulphuric" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.16% of the time. "Sulphuric" is used about 119 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.16% | 118 | 29,674 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.84% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 119 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "sulphuric": cerulic sulphuric ♦ ethyl sulphuric acid ♦ Fuming sulphuric acid ♦ Nordhausen sulphuric acid ♦ sulphovinic or ethyl sulphuric acid ♦ sulphuric acid ♦ sulphuric anhydride ♦ sulphuric chloranhydride ♦ sulphuric ether. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "sulphuric": sulphuric-acid. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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sulphuric acid | 49 |
acid cooler sulphuric | 9 |
acid heater sulphuric | 8 |
acid sulphuric use | 5 |
acid msds sulphuric | 3 |
acid plant sulphuric | 3 |
acid cause dioxide rain sulphur sulphuric | 2 |
acid production sulphuric | 2 |
acid noranda sulphuric | 2 |
acid equipment sulphuric | 2 |
acid price sulphuric | 2 |
sulphuric | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "sulphuric"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | sulfurik (vitriolic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كبريتي (sulphite, sulphonic, sulphureous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | серен (sulphury). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 含硫 (sulfuric). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | sirný. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | SO3 (sulphur trioxide, sulphuric anhydride), svovltrioxid (sulphur trioxide, sulphuric anhydride), svovlsyre-kobbersulfatoploesningen fremstilles af analyserene kemikalier (the sulphuric acid-copper sulphate solution is prepared using products of analytical purity), svovlsyre (sulphuric acid), svovlindvindingsanlæg (sulfur recovery plant, sulphuric acid plant), sur regn (acid deposition, acid rain, acidic precipitation, causing agricultural and ecological damage, formed in the atmosphere mainly by the combination of sulphur trioxide and water.It results in increased acidity of the soil, precipitation containing elevated amounts of sulphuric acid(H2 SO4)droplets), sur nedbør (acid deposition, acid rain, acidic precipitation, causing agricultural and ecological damage, formed in the atmosphere mainly by the combination of sulphur trioxide and water.It results in increased acidity of the soil, precipitation containing elevated amounts of sulphuric acid(H2 SO4)droplets), alkylering med svovlsyre (sulfuric-acid alkylation, sulfuric-acid alkylation process, sulphuric-acid alkylation, sulphuric-acid alkylation process), behandling med svovlsyre (acid refining, acid treating, sulfuric-acid treating, sulphuric-acid treating), blodproeven foraskes ad vaad vej ved ophedning med svovlsyre,salpetersyre eller perchlorsyre (nitric and perchloric acids, the blood sample is mineralised by the wet method by heating with sulphuric), de passiverende egenskaber af kammersyre og kontaktsyre er meget forskellige (there is a considerable difference between the passivating effect of lead chamber acid and contact-process sulphuric acid), E513 (sulphuric acid), affald forbraendt i varm koncentreret svovlsyre (waste digested in hot concentrated sulphuric acid), oleum (fuming sulphuric acid, oleum), termisk nedbrydning af svovlsyre (thermal decomposition of sulphuric acid), elektrokemiske undersoegelser af rent jern og jern-kulstoflegeringer i fortyndet svovl- og saltsyre (electrochemical tests of pure iron and iron-carbon alloys in dilute sulphuric and hydrochloric acid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | zwavelig (sulfuric, sulphureous), zwavel- (sulfuric, sulphureous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | sulfura (sulfuric, sulphureous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | rikkihappotehdas (sulfur recovery plant, sulphuric acid plant), rikkihappokäsittely (acid refining, acid treating, sulfuric-acid treating, sulphuric-acid treating), rikkihappoalkylointi (sulfuric-acid alkylation, sulfuric-acid alkylation process, sulphuric-acid alkylation, sulphuric-acid alkylation process), rikkihappo (sulphuric acid), rautahiiliseos (electrochemical tests of pure iron and iron-carbon alloys in dilute sulphuric and hydrochloric acid), happokäsittely (acid refining, acid treating, sulfuric-acid treating, sulphuric-acid treating), hapan sade (acid deposition, acid rain, acidic precipitation, causing agricultural and ecological damage, formed in the atmosphere mainly by the combination of sulphur trioxide and water.It results in increased acidity of the soil, precipitation containing elevated amounts of sulphuric acid(H2 SO4)droplets). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sulfurique. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | schwefelig (sulfuric, sulphureous, sulphurous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | θειικόσ (sulfurate, sulfuric). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | 'פריתי. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kén-. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | solforico (sulfuric). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 황 (sulfur, sulfuric, sulphur, sulphurs). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | sulfuragh (sulphurous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ulphuricsay sulfúrico (sulfuric). (various references) sulfuric. (various references) серный (sulfuric, sulphureous, sulphury). (various references) sumporni (sulphureous). (various references) sulfúrico (sulfureous, sulfuric, sulphureous, sulphurous, sulphury). (various references) svavel-. (various references) sülfürik, kükürtlü (sulphureous, sulphuretted, sulphurous). (various references) сірчаний (sulfureous, sulfuric, sulfury, sulphureous, sulphury). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "sulphuric" (pronounced 'Sul*phu"ric'): Actinometric, Aerometric, Afric, Anisometric, Anthracometric, Antipodagric, Auric, Boric, Calorimetric, Capric, Chloric, Choric, Citric, Clinometric, Cylindrometric, Cymric, ferric, Fluoboric, Fulminuric, Galvanometric, Gastroenteric, Glycoluric, gravimetric, Lecanoric, Leucoturic, Logometric, Magnetometric, Melanuric, mercuric, Mesonephric, metric, Monodimetric, Monometric, Moric, Nitrohydrochloric, Orthometric, Oxychloric, Ozonometric, Pediatric, Peloric, Pepsinhydrochloric, Peptohydrochloric, Perchloric, Platinichloric, Platinochloric, Pleuric, Pronephric, Pseudo-symmetric, Psoric, Psychiatric. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-h-i-l-p-r-s-u-u" | |
-2 letters: sulphur, upcurls. | |
-3 letters: chirps, churls, piculs, upcurl, uprush. | |
-4 letters: chips, chirp, churl, clips, crisp, crush, cuish, curls, hilus, hurls, lupus, lurch, picul, pilus, plush, pulis, puris, purls, schul, scrip, sculp, sirup, slurp, sulci, usurp. | |
-5 letters: chip, chis, clip, cris, crus, cups, curl, curs, cusp, hips, huic, hurl, ichs, lich, lips, lisp, lush, phis, pics. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-h-i-l-p-r-s-u-u" | |
+3 letters: pulchritudes. | |
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