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Sulfur   /sˈəlfər/   Listen
Sulfur

noun
1.
An abundant tasteless odorless multivalent nonmetallic element; best known in yellow crystals; occurs in many sulphide and sulphate minerals and even in native form (especially in volcanic regions).  Synonyms: atomic number 16, S, sulphur.



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"Sulfur" Quotes from Famous Books



... three alchemical symbols salt, sulfur, and mercury. Sulfur was the principle of combustability, salt the fixed part left after burning (calcination), and mercury the essential part of all metals. For example, gold and silver were supposedly different combinations ...
— A Brief History of Element Discovery, Synthesis, and Analysis • Glen W. Watson
... four-pounder. Brass. I knew that smith-shop was also a foundry. See that little curl of smoke? That's the gunner's slow-match. I'd thought maybe that thing on the island was a powder mill. That would be where they'd put it. Probably extract their niter from the dung of their horses and cows. Sulfur probably from coal-mine drainage. ...
— The Return • H. Beam Piper and John J. McGuire
... that is very cold, and the other sends out one that is very hot; which waters, when they are mingled together, compose a most pleasant bath; they are medicinal indeed for other maladies, but especially good for strengthening the nerves. This place has in it also mines of sulfur and alum. ...
— The Wars of the Jews or History of the Destruction of Jerusalem • Flavius Josephus
... saying now, beginning, as it were, a new chapter, "if you think the sulfur-crested parabola is a funny bird you should hear about the great flannel-throated golosh, or arctic bird of the polar seas, which is a creature so rare that nobody ever saw one, although Dr. Cook, the imminent ex-explorer, made an exhaustive study of its habits and peculiarities and told the ...
— Sundry Accounts • Irvin S. Cobb


Words linked to "Sulfur" :   sulphuric acid, sulphide, chemical element, process, element, sulfide, sulfur mustard, treat, s, vitriol, native sulphur, oil of vitriol, brimstone


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