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sulphur Definition

sul·phur (sulfər)

noun

Chiefly Brit. sulfur

sulphur Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • burn: Burning molten sulfur in either air or pure oxygen leads to a reaction, which produces a pale blue colored flame.
  • contain: This depends on whether the crystallization buffer contains sulfur.
  • remove: The clean up: Chemical plants can be placed to remove the sulfur from emissions before it reaches the atmosphere.
  • include: We will focus on several key elements including sulfur, nitrogen, halogens, phosphorus and iron.

Preposition: in

  • fuel: The act also specifies maximum concentrations of lead and sulfur in motor fuel.
  • air: Burning molten sulfur in either air or pure oxygen leads to a reaction, which produces a pale blue colored flame.

Adjective modifier

  • elemental: The question of the presence of elemental sulfur in coal is addressed.
  • organic: For the most part, horses are able to utilize only the organic sulfur in its feed.
  • low: Not very, other than perhaps taxing low sulfur fuel a little less punitively than the regular variety.
  • high: Will it be a high sulfur or waxy crude?
  • hot: Now Rotorua has a number of hot sulfur springs, which makes the whole town quite aromatic, to say the least.

Modifies a noun

  • dioxide: Sulfur dioxide gas can be made directly by heating Sulfur in air.
  • trioxide: The 1: 1 mixture turns out to give you the best possible overall yield of sulfur trioxide.
  • hexafluoride: Sulfur hexafluoride is an inert, innocuous gas, poorly soluble in aqueous solutions.
  • diesel: Diesel: Low sulfur diesel cut by 3 pence a liter from April.
  • isotope: In addition, sulfur isotope analyzes have been performed on eleven corrosion samples from city centers.
  • compound: In the present research project, scientists studied the sulfur compounds forming an integral part of the flavor of some of these cheeses.

Noun used with modifier

  • burning: On the wicked he will rain fiery coals and burning sulfur; a scorching wind will be their lot.
  • %: The European Commission has proposed 1.5 % sulfur content for marine fuels in the EU.
  • ultra-low: Launched the ultra-low sulfur City Gasoline, an addition to City Diesel.
sulphur Quotes

That knuckle-end of Englandöthat land of Calvin, oat- cakes and sulphur.

—Smith, Rev Sydney

Rumbling under blackened girders, Midland, bound for Cricklewood, Puffed its sulphur to the sunset where that Land of laundries stood.

—Betjeman, SirJohn

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