sulfur dioxide

English

Alternative forms

sulphur dioxide (British)

Noun

sulfur dioxide (uncountable)

(American spelling, inorganic chemistry) A toxic gas, of molecular formula SO₂ that is found in the emissions of volcanos and those of burning coal or petroleum; dissolves in water to form sulfurous acid and, in the presence of oxygen, sulfuric acid, and is thus responsible for acid rain.

Translations

the compound SO₂

Catalan: diòxid de sofre m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 二氧化硫 (ji⁶ joeng⁵ faa³ lau⁴)

Mandarin: 二氧化硫 (zh) (èryǎnghuàliú)
Czech: oxid siřičitý m
Dutch: zwaveldioxide (nl) n
Esperanto: sulfura dioksido
Finnish: rikkidioksidi (fi)
French: dioxyde de soufre (fr) m
Galician: dióxido de xofre m
German: Schwefeldioxid n

Hindi: गन्धक द्विजारेय (gandhak dvijāreya)
Hungarian: kén-dioxid (hu)
Icelandic: brennisteinsdíoxið n, brennisteinstvíoxíð n
Italian: diossido di zolfo (it) m
Japanese: 二酸化硫黄 (ja) (nisankaiō)
Persian: سولفور دی‌اکسید‎ (sulfur di-oksid)
Portuguese: dióxido de enxofre m
Russian: двуо́кись се́ры f (dvuókisʹ séry), диокси́д се́ры m (dioksíd séry)
Spanish: dióxido de azufre
Swedish: svaveldioxid (sv) c
Thai: ซัลเฟอร์ไดออกไซด์

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