sulphur
IPA: sˈʌɫfɝ
Root Word: Sulphur
noun
- A city, the county seat of Murray County, Oklahoma, United States.
- Alternative spelling of sulfur [(uncountable) A chemical element (symbol S) with an atomic number of 16.]
verb
- Alternative spelling of sulfur [(transitive) To treat with sulfur, or a sulfur compound, especially to preserve or to counter agricultural pests.]
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Examples of "sulphur" in Sentences
- They smell of smoke and sulphur.
- In sulphur it is a close second to Sicily.
- There was a sulphur fire that was ordinary.
- No, it was later determined to be sulphur...
- At times there is a smell of sulphur in this area.
- If you want to find the sulphur article, it's at sulphur.
- The sulphur like smell of their rancid eggs fills the air.
- Assam coal is friable in nature and has a high sulphur content.
- Its common names are sulphur polypore, sulphur shelf, and chicken mushroom.
- In the air the sulphur dioxide is converted to sulphuric acid and sulphates.
- The rocks at the Yukaton are very very rich in sulphur and close to the surface.
- The oil that Iran produces is very low grade (high in sulphur), which is why they import quite a bit of what they use.
- Over the long term sulphur emissions decline in both scenarios throughout the world, but the timing and magnitude vary.
- The US and Europe are both moving to low sulphur fuels for emissions reasons, but sulphur is a beneficial ingredient for the engine.
- Is not this effect nearly similar to that produced by the combination of phosphorus and sulphur, or, more properly speaking, the _phosphuret of sulphur_?
- Don't you love those creatures that live at the bottom of the ocean, under incredible pressures and temperatures, feeding on the sulphur from a volcanic outflow?
- The proteins are built up from so-called amino acids, and their sulphur is due to the presence of one or two sulphur-containing amino acids: cystine and methionine.
- For, if we first use perhydrol as oxidizing agent in alkaline solution and then acidify with nitric acid, sulphur is not precipitated and fully correct results are obtained.
- As the condensing chamber becomes warm, the sulphur collects as a liquid in it, and is drawn off into cylindrical molds, the product being called _roll sulphur_ or _brimstone_.
- At such times I could see his villanous face plainly, and, when the sulphur from the matches irritated his lungs, between the raspy cough that followed and the clammy mud in which I was lying, I confess I shivered harder than ever.