Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mercury sulfide

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.89 in modern English

Syllables: mer-cury -sul-fide
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A binary compound of sulfur and mercury that occurs naturally as cinnabar

Uncountable

Etymology

From mercury + sulfide.

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

mercury sulphide (alternative)

Questions

What does mercury sulfide mean?: A binary compound of sulfur and mercury that occurs naturally as cinnabar
Where does mercury sulfide come from?: From mercury + sulfide.

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