sulphacid

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sulphacid - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Sulphacid \Sulph*ac"id\, n. [Sulpho- + acid.] (Chem.)
     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.
     [1913 Webster]