Sulphydrate

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sulphydrate \Sul*phy"drate\, n. (Chem.)
     A compound, analogous to a hydrate, regarded as a salt of
     sulphydric acid, or as a derivative of hydrogen sulphide in
     which one half of the hydrogen is replaced by a base (as
     potassium sulphydrate, {KSH}), or as a hydrate in which the
     oxygen has been wholly or partially replaced by sulphur.


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