Chem. [ad. mod.L. sulphurētum: see SULPHUR sb. and -URET. Cf. SULPHURE.] = SULPHIDE sb. (Now only in Materia Medica and Mining.)
1790. Kerr, trans. Lavoisier’s Elem. Chem., 249. One part ore of molybdena, which is a natural sulphuret of that metal, is put into a retort.
1791. Hamilton, Berthollet’s Dyeing, II. II. II. i. 65. Sulphuret of alkali.
1794. Pearson, in Phil. Trans., LXXXIV. 395. Sulphuret of lime (calcareous liver of sulphur).
1811. A. T. Thomson, Lond. Disp. (1818), 499. The potash combines with the sulphur of the sulphuret of antimony, and forms sulphuret of potash.
1825. J. Nicholson, Operat. Mechanic, 629. Lead is obtained from ore, and, from its being generally combined with sulphur, it has been denominated ‘sulphuret.’
1839. De la Beche, Rep. Geol. Cornwall, etc., x. 287. The sulphuret of zinc (the Black Jack of the Cornish miners).
1852. Boyle, Mat. Med. (ed. 2), 87. Potassii Sulphuretum … Sulphuret of Potassium.
1881. Raymond, Mining Gloss., Sulphurets, in miners’ phrase, the undecomposed metallic ores, usually sulphides. Chiefly applied to auriferous pyrites.
1895. Daily News, 25 June, 9/5. Tons of sulphurets treated, 398.
attrib. 1877. Raymond, Statist. Mines & Mining, 75. Sulphuret-concentration…. Sulphuret-reduction.
1882. Rep. Ho. Repr. Prec. Met. U.S., 261. A strong vein of sulphuret ore.
