sulphur
sulphur
Definition
sul·phur (sul′fər)
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
sulphur Quotes
That knuckle-end of Englandöthat land of Calvin, oat- cakes and sulphur.
Rumbling under blackened girders, Midland, bound for Cricklewood, Puffed its sulphur to the sunset where that Land of laundries stood.
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