containing the mercapto group; sulfhydryl; thiol; mercapto
Word origin
[1930–35; sulf- + hydr-2 + -yl]This word is first recorded in the period 1930–35. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: kickback, logical positivism, old school tie, technical foul, uncertainty principle-yl is a suffix used in the names of radicals. Other words that use the affix -yl include: cacodyl, glycyl, tetryl, vinyl
Examples of 'sulfhydryl' in a sentence
sulfhydryl
This chain ended in a free sulfhydryl group, which stuck to modified glass beads as the peptides filtered through them.