sulphurous : Idioms & Phrases


Sulphurous acid

  • . (a) Sulphur dioxide. See under Sulphur. Obs. (b) An acid, H2SO3, not known in the free state except as a solution of sulphur dioxide in water, but forming a well-known series of salts (the sulphites).
Webster 1913

Sulphurous anhydride

  • (Chem.), sulphur dioxide. See under Sulphur.
Webster 1913