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sulphone

sulphone is the alternative spelling of sulfone.

Meaning of sulfone

Noun

sulfone (plural sulfones)

  1. Any of a class of organic compounds that have a sulfonyl functional group attached to two carbon atoms; drugs of this structure have been used to treat leprosy.

Forms of sulphone

pluralsulphones

Questions about sulphone

What is sulphone the alternative spelling of?
Sulphone is the alternative spelling of sulfone.

Words near sulphone in the dictionary

  1. sulphonating
  2. sulphonation
  3. sulphonations
  4. sulphonator
  5. sulphonators
  6. sulphone
  7. sulphonediimine
  8. sulphonediimines
  9. sulphonephthalein
  10. sulphones
  11. sulphonic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sulphone (page history and authors); sulfone (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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