Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

selenylsulfide

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: se-lenyl-sul-fide
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a class of organic compounds having a selenium to sulfur bond

Example Sentences

"In addition to DMSe and DMDSe, the volatile Se species MeSeH and the mixed Se-S species dimethyl selenylsulfide have been identified in natural waters [91,96,256,258]."

Etymology

From selenyl + sulfide.

Inflected Forms

selenylsulfides (plural)

Questions

What does selenylsulfide mean?: Any of a class of organic compounds having a selenium to sulfur bond
Where does selenylsulfide come from?: From selenyl + sulfide.

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