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dimethyl sulfide
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dimethyl sulfide [‚dī′meth·əl ′səl‚fīd]
(organic chemistry)


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Bacteria produce volatile compounds that smell unpleasant, including hydrogen sulphide, methyl mercaptan and dimethyl sulphide.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Richardson's colleague, Dr Andrew Curson, has found that marine microbes are making dimethyl sulphide (DMS)--another greenhouse gas--at the rate of more than 200 million tonnes a year.
We wondered if we could restore algal growth with its capacity to draw down carbon dioxide and to emit dimethyl sulphide, the precursor of clouds," Lovelock wrote recently.
 
 
 
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