Chem. [f. SULPHO- + SALT sb.1 Cf. F. sulfosel (Berzelius).] A salt of a sulpho-acid.
1833. Rees, trans. 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.
