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Gunpowder element
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sulfur
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Sulfur or sulphur (see spelling differences ) is a chemical element with symbol S and atomic number 16. It is an abundant , multivalent non-metal . Under normal conditions , sulfur atoms form cyclic octatomic molecules with chemical formula S. Elemental ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also sulphur , c.1300, from Anglo-French sulfere , Old French soufre "sulfur, fire and brimstone, hellfire" (13c.), later also sulphur , from Late Latin sulfur , from Latin sulphur , probably from a root meaning "to burn." Ousted native brimstone and cognate ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Of a yellowish green colour, like that of sulfur. n. 1 (context uncountable English) A chemical element (''symbol'' S) with an atomic number of 16. 2 (context countable uncountable English) A yellowish green colour, like that of sulfur. v (context transitive ...
Usage examples of sulfur.
New Atlantan Feed had a higher sulfur content that, when burned, produced a plutonic reek that permeated everything for dozens of miles downwind, making the fires seem much closer than they really were.
Apparently the sulfur bacteria had overgrown the backflow sludge, and coupled with the fungal contamination from the downstream scrubbers created a disgusting mix of smells.
Colonies of a dozen species of slow growing chemoautotrophs had been introduced into a part of the Rift rich with sulfur and ferrous iron.
Colonies of a dozen species of slow-growing chemoautotrophs were introduced into a part of the Rift rich with sulfur and ferrous iron.
The proprietor, Chucho, scratched a sulfur match on the underside of the table, waved it to life, then carefully lit the cigar.
There was also an abundance of sulfur vapor, as well as carbon disulfide and sulfur dioxide.
The Greenlandic hell is not the European rocky landscape with pools of sulfur.
Then he tried the nonmetals, such as tar, plastic, asbestos, even sulfur.
Besides that, the ore also contained other valuable metals like cobalt and the platinum-group metals, as well as nonmetals like sulfur, arsenic, selenium, germanium, phosphorus, carbon.
The air was thick with oxides of nitrogen and sulfur, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide and carbon tetrachloride, a mixture of industrial wastes that Svetz had been breathing since the day he was born.
While the rolling rotundity of the resounding thunder was drumming up to its last grandeur, a strong stench of sulfur swept down across the sea and hung in spreading fumes upon the sea-wall, until with a sharp crackle as percussive as a square of muskets, another fire, a ball of flaming gas enveloping a thunderstone, darted across the sky and dashed with a hissing explosion into the sea.
Either way, he stood to lose something--the new towboat and the sulfur barges in a big boom if those runaways hit it .
And not just any old coal, but good stuff-low in sulfur, clean burning, most of it near the surface and easily mined.
The stench of sulfur roils up and the gods and goddesses near the edge back away.
The young volcanoes were almost continually active, belching out smoke and ash ladened with sulfur that, mixing with the rain, turned to acid.