If you dip a piece of iron picture wire in sulfur and light it, and then plunge it into the bottle, you will see iron burn.
The ragged surface was almost impassable—great jutting rocks peppered the plateau; ledges crumbled the moment my tires touched them; long, open canyons turned into lead-mires or sulfur pits.
Huge sun-baked cracks opened up in the floor of the gorge, with black cliffs jutting up on either side; the air was filled with a barely visible yellowish mist of sulfur and sulfurous gases.
There was also an abundance of sulfur vapor, as well as carbon disulfide and sulfur dioxide.
Sulfur dust (flowers of sulfur) and liver of sulfur (potassium sulfide) are also useful in dry or wet sprays for surface mildews.
Again, a paint composed of sulfur and linseed oil may be applied to a part of one of the steam or hot-water heating pipes.
Sulfur has been found to possess considerable value as a fungicide.
The mildews are controlled by the varioussulfur sprays.
Spray in late fall or early spring with the lime-sulfur wash, with kerosene emulsion, diluted with 5 parts of water, or miscible oil, 1 gal.
The best preventives are to syringe faithfully, admit air freely, and sprinkle sulfur on the ground.
As the sulfurgoes into solution, a rich orange-red or dark green color will appear.
When the lime begins to slake, add the sulfur and stir together.
Spray thoroughly in the fall after the leaves drop, or early in the spring before growth begins, with lime-sulfur wash, or miscible oil 1 gal.
The flowers of sulfur may be sprinkled over the plants, particularly when they are wet.
They are especially valuable to the man with only a few trees or shrubs who would not care to go to the trouble and expense to make up the lime-sulfur wash.
It is the height of absurdity, for instance, to pretend to disinfect the air of a large room by burning a tablespoonful of sulfur on a shovel in the center of a room without even taking the trouble to close the door.
When sulfur is burned, a gas is formed known as sulfurous acid, and until the last few years, it was the most common of all disinfecting agencies.
It is now known that in the dry, powdered state, sulfur is of no value unless, perhaps, the germs be smothered with the sulfur flour.
The writer well remembers that when about to visit a city in South America infested with yellow fever, he was seriously advised to fill the inside of his shoes with sulfur as a precaution against the disease.
The most convenient way of ignition is to moisten the sulfur with a little alcohol which can be readily set on fire.
He might as well have worn a red ribbon on his hat so far as any protection went, but it illustrates the confidence formerly shown in sulfur as a disinfectant.
Since clothes of every sort are more effectually acted upon when moist, they should be sprinkled with a hand atomizer just as the sulfur is lighted, and this should always be done in the case of any stuffed furniture or hangings.
It is possible that a light fumigation with sulfur or formaldehyde might help to keep down molds in these common storage grape-rooms, but as to the value of fumigation there seems to be no experimental evidence.
On the Pacific slope the only application yearly required in most vineyard regions is dusting with flowers of sulfur for powdery-mildew.
The phosphorus and sulfur are found in very limited quantities in most soils, but they are present in both organic and mineral form.
But, if this mixture is heated in a retort which excludes the air, the carbon and sulfur unite into a chemical compound called carbon disulfid.
The kainit furnishes both potassium and magnesium in soluble form and it also contains sulfur and chlorin.
I think you said that iron, calcium, magnesium and potassium are usually abundant in the soil, while phosphorus and sulfur are very limited.
Besides considerable quantities of sulfur are returned to the air in the combustion of coal and organic matter, and this returns to the soil in rain.
Thus carbon and sulfur are both solid elements, one black and the other yellow, as generally found.
Yes, that is the rule under general or average conditions, but it should be stated that the amount of sulfur required by plants is very small as compared with phosphorus, a difference which places a great distinction between them.
Strange to say, the sulfur atom has six hands but sometimes uses only two, the others seemingly being clasped together in pairs.
The widespread interest in the burning of sulfur and of phosphorus, naturally, caught Lavoisier's attention.
Hot sulfur springs are to be found on the island, and there is a bath for the use of visitors.
Besides her splendid natural situation, Budapest has another great treasure, and this is the great quantity of hot sulfur springs which exists on both sides of the Danube.
A new bath is being built in Pest where the hot sulfur water oozes up in the middle of the park--the same is to be found in St. Margaret's Isle.
Cortes insisted on several descents being made into the great crater till sufficient sulfur was collected to supply gunpowder to his army.
Thus I saw the horses in the vision, and those who sat on them, having breastplates of fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow; and the heads of lions.
He will be tormented with fire andsulfur in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb.
Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky.
Parallel with it runs an aqueduct which supplied the works with motive power, derived probably from the sulfur springs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sulfur" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: alabaster; asphalt; color; mineral; pigment; silver; yellow
