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Sulphacid


n.

An acid in which, to a greater or less extent, sulphur plays a part analogous to that of oxygen in an oxyacid; thus, thiosulphuric and sulpharsenic acids are sulphacids ; -- called also sulphoacid . See the Note under Acid , n. , 2.


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