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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An acid in which sulphur takes the place of oxygen; a sulpho-acid.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (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.

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  • noun Alternative form of sulfacid.

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