a colourless slightly soluble volatile flammable poisonous liquid commonly having a disagreeable odour due to the presence of impurities: used as an organic solvent and in the manufacture of rayon and carbon tetrachloride. Formula: CS2
Also called (not in technical usage): carbon bisulphide
Examples of 'carbon disulphide' in a sentence
carbon disulphide
Detection limits for determination of carbon disulphide in the air are 0.2, respectively 0.4 mg·m−3.
V. Pitschmann, Z. Kobliha, I. Tušarová 2013, 'Spectrophotometric Determination of Carbon Disulphide in the Workplace Air', Journal of Chemistryhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/506780. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Carbon disulphide absorbed into aprotic solvent was transformed by using ammonium hydroxide on sulphides which were determined by spectrophotometry.
V. Pitschmann, Z. Kobliha, I. Tušarová 2013, 'Spectrophotometric Determination of Carbon Disulphide in the Workplace Air', Journal of Chemistryhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/506780. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Instead of carbon disulphide, a less fire-hazardous and less toxic n-hexane was used to extract the base of oxybuprocaine.
M. G. Levin, V. N. Britsun, N. L. Tarasenko, N. A. Savina, N. V. Оstanina 2018, 'NEW APPROACH TO THE OXYBUPROCAINE IDENTIFICATION IN THE DRUGS', Фармацевтичний часописhttps://ojs.tdmu.edu.ua/index.php/pharm-chas/article/view/8619. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)