A chemical compound containing two sulfur atoms bonded together or to other elements, important in protein structure and industrial chemistry.
From di- (two) + sulfide (from sulfur + -ide, from German Schwefel-id, a suffix for binary compounds). Modern standardized chemical nomenclature.
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