HYDROGEN SULFIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hydrogen sulfide mean? 

• HYDROGEN SULFIDE (noun)
  The noun HYDROGEN SULFIDE has 1 sense:

1. a sulfide having the unpleasant smell of rotten eggs

  Familiarity information: HYDROGEN SULFIDE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HYDROGEN SULFIDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sulfide having the unpleasant smell of rotten eggs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("hydrogen sulfide" is a kind of...):

sulfide; sulphide (a compound of sulphur and some other element that is more electropositive)

 Context examples 

This species is nonmotile, non-spore forming, catalase positive, reduces nitrate, does not produce hydrogen sulfide, non-lipophilic, and is indole negative.

(Corynebacterium matruchotii, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is nonmotile, non-spore forming, catalase positive, urease positive, pyrazinamidase positive, does not reduce nitrate, indole negative, non-lipophilic, ferments glucose, does not produce hydrogen sulfide, and does not hydrolyze gelatin.

(Corynebacterium renale, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is nonmotile, non-spore forming, catalase positive, indole and lipase negative, stimulated by bile, reduces nitrate, produces hydrogen sulfide, does not hydrolyze starch or esculin, and most strains are urease positive.

(Bilophila wadsworthia, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is motile, catalase positive, oxidase, urease and indole negative, produces hydrogen sulfide and is asaccharolytic.

(Desulfovibrio fairfieldensis, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is motile, non-spore forming, catalase positive, oxidase negative, lipase positive, indole negative, ornithine decarboxylase negative, ferments sucrose reduces nitrate, does not produce hydrogen sulfide, and hydrolyzes esculin.

(Cedecea neteri, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is motile, non-spore forming, catalase positive, oxidase negative, lipase positive, indole negative, ornithine decarboxylase negative, does not ferment sucrose, reduces nitrate, does not produce hydrogen sulfide, and hydrolyzes esculin.

(Cedecea lapagei, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is motile, non-spore forming, oxidase, catalase, and indole negative, does not hydrolyze esculin, nor produce hydrogen sulfide.

(Capnocytophaga gingivalis, NCI Thesaurus)

They found hydrogen sulfide, the odiferous gas that most people avoid, in Uranus' cloud tops.

(What Uranus Cloud Tops Have in Common With Rotten Eggs, NASA)

This species is motile using a single flagellum at each pole, non-spore forming, oxidase positive, catalase positive, reduces nitrate, produces hydrogen sulfide, and does not hydrolyze hippurate nor ferment glucose.

(Campylobacter lari, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is nonmotile, non-spore forming, catalase negative, hydrolyzes esculin, but not starch or hippurate, produces hydrogen sulfide, and does not reduce nitrate.

(Enterococcus avium, NCI Thesaurus)