sulpho-salt Chem.
(ˈsʌlfəʊsɒlt, -sɔːlt)
[f. sulpho- + salt n.1 Cf. F. sulfosel (Berzelius).]
A salt of a sulpho-acid.
| 1833 Rees tr. Berzelius' Anal. Inorg. Bodies 126 Sulpho-salts. A small number only of these salts are as yet known. Ibid. 128 Sulpho-salts are obtained, in which the radicals of the acid and the base are combined with sulphur, in volumes equal to those of the oxygen which they have lost. 1839 Ure Dict. Arts 1215 The oxisalt is transformed into a sulphosalt, by the sulphur of the compound gas. 1871 Roscoe Elem. Chem. xvii. 189 Other sulphides correspond to the acid-forming oxides and form compounds with the basic sulphides termed sulpho-salts. |