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Example sentences for "sulphur"

Lexicographically close words:
sulphites; sulphocyanide; sulphonate; sulphonated; sulphonic; sulphurated; sulphure; sulphureous; sulphuret; sulphureted
  1. Ovid, again, says that both onions and sulphur were given to criminals to purify them from their crimes, upon the old theory of purgation by fumigation.

  2. It is the more volatile, sulphurous fumes of this oil which ascend as an onion is cut that cause the eyes to water, just as sulphur fumes do anywhere.

  3. Third, add (to a 15-pound pot) 1/2 pound of sulphur in three applications.

  4. The sulphur should come in contact with all parts of the metal.

  5. This is why the metal should be stirred when the sulphur is put in.

  6. Each time mix the sulphur thoroughly with the metal with a long stick.

  7. Sulphur is used to collect all zinc and dross.

  8. While the Cloudless Sulphur is without doubt essentially a tropical species it has an extraordinary geographical range.

  9. Our two commonest butterflies, the White or Imported Cabbage Butterfly and the Sulphur Yellow Butterfly, are typical representatives of this family.

  10. The Clouded Sulphur is a good example of these.

  11. The upper surface of the wings of the male is a clear plain sulphur with merely the narrowest possible fringe of brown around the margin made only by the colored marginal scales.

  12. The Dainty Sulphur= Nathalis iole While the Little Sulphur butterfly seems about as delicate a creature as one could ask to see, it loses that distinction when it is compared with the still smaller Dainty Sulphur.

  13. Other Sulphur Butterflies The Large Orange Sulphur is a closely related butterfly of about the same size, in which the coloring is uniformly orange-yellow instead of lemon-yellow.

  14. The Clouded Sulphur is about the only medium-sized yellow butterfly generally found in the Northeastern states.

  15. There may be times when the White Cabbage butterfly or other forms are more abundant, but the Clouded Sulphur retains its place season after season, with comparatively little noticeable variation in its numbers.

  16. The Orange-sulphur butterfly is a good example of this.

  17. Much like Clouded Sulphur in markings except that prevailing color-tone is orange yellow.

  18. Like so many others of this group the Orange Sulphur is essentially a tropical species.

  19. One with very little experience can tell the look of a tropical butterfly and would be likely to say at once that the Cloudless Sulphur is one of these.

  20. Sulphur united with any alkali to form a salt.

  21. The sulphur that is in the samples of copper ore, if burned, will make a sulphurous acid gas, and while it must be carefully used, on account of its noxious and offensive odor, is a most powerful germicide.

  22. Yes," responded George; "that is sulphur water, or it has considerable sulphur in it.

  23. I clambered up the narrow cleft in the rock and came out upon the sulphur on the westward side of the village of the Beast Men.

  24. Press them out with a hollow key or with the thumb and fingers, and apply a mixture of sulphur and cream every evening.

  25. It takes some time for the sulphur to do its work, therefore persevere in its use till the humors, or pimples, or blotches, disappear.

  26. Sulphur to purify the blood may be taken three times a week--a thimbleful in a glass of milk before breakfast.

  27. So much effort does the utterance of this note cost the bird, that it always occasions a display of the hidden sulphur markings of wings and tail.

  28. The acquired redness of the Minium indicating the addition of plenty of sulphur in the operation.

  29. The place certainly deserves a thorough exploration, with a view to utilising the sulphur deposits; but it is so overgrown with vegetation that the search would involve considerable trouble and expense.

  30. I wanted to see for myself what amount of sulphur deposits were really to be found there.

  31. They were thin strips of wood or cardboard coated with sulphur and tipped with a mixture of mucilage, chlorate of potash, and sulphide of antimony.

  32. Though various processes for lighting in which sulphur was used in a match shape, were brought before the public at the beginning of this century, they were complicated, expensive, and rarely seen.

  33. Then some person invented strips of wood dipped in sulphur and called "spunks.

  34. This left the bonnets hanging inside the barrel, which was set over an old-fashioned foot-stove filled with hot coals on which sulphur had been placed.

  35. The fumes of the burning sulphur arose and filled the barrel, and were closely retained by quilts wrapped around it.

  36. Like the two modifications of sulphur and of tin, these different forms exhibit transition points at which the relative stability of the forms changes.

  37. The conditions for the existence of this system are represented by the curve BF, which may therefore be regarded as the vapour-pressure curve of the saturated solution of sulphur dioxide heptahydrate in water.

  38. In the case of sulphur, the transition point of rhombic into monoclinic sulphur was found by Reicher[51] to lie at 95.

  39. On the other hand, at temperatures above 96deg, prismatic sulphur can remain unchanged, whereas at the ordinary temperature it passes slowly into the rhombic form.

  40. The case of sulphur dioxide and water is also of interest from the fact that two liquid phases can be formed.

  41. The combustible matter is composed of six elements: carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, sulphur and a little phosphorus.

  42. Iron, magnesium and sulphur also are seldom or never deficient in soils, and do not require to be supplemented by manuring.

  43. Spartans attempted to burn the town by piling up against the walls wood saturated with pitch and sulphur and setting it on fire (Thuc.

  44. There are sulphur and manganese mines in the island of Melos, and the volcanic island of Santorin produces pozzolana, a kind of cement, which is exported in considerable quantities.

  45. Atmospheric moisture has a cooling effect on the lower part of a furnace, just where the highest temperature is needed to melt the iron and slag, remove the sulphur and deoxidize the silica.

  46. Charles Goodyear one day combined some rubber and sulphur by way of experiment; quite by accident he overturned part of the mixture upon a hot stove.

  47. Nathaniel Hayward long ago remarked that sulphur deprives rubber of stickiness.

  48. Mond gas is free from tar, is cleansed of soot and dust, and holds less sulphur than ordinary producer gas.

  49. The much praised lake and vale of Enna[1] are now a desolate sulphur district, void of beauty, with no flowers to tempt Proserpine.

  50. The place is barren now: two solitary cypress-trees mark the road which winds downwards from a desolate sulphur mine, and the lake is clearly the crater of an extinct volcano.

  51. The Sulphur baths of Trescorio, at some distance from the city, were improved and opened to poor patients by a hospital which he provided.

  52. At any rate, the Duke's lupa justified his trying what change of air, together with the sulphur waters of Abano, would do for him.

  53. I have been told there is sulphur in the Syrtis, and the failure of obtaining it in remunerative quantity is to be attributed alone to the chicanery or want of skill in the agent.

  54. In this locality the odor of sulphur is strong and unpleasant.

  55. Great deposits of sulphur and pumice were observed.

  56. Every now and then it discharges great quantities of sulphur gases; these are caught by the rain and, falling on the cultivated lands, kill pretty nearly everything touched.

  57. In the northern part of the island one may find acres of burning sulphur beds, small geysers, and mud caldrons, all of which attest to the slowly dying volcanic forces beneath.

  58. On being exposed to the sun, the sulphur evaporated, and left pure white salt fit for use.

  59. Mr Laffan having carried away some of the water, afterwards analysed it, and found it to be composed of sulphur and salt.

  60. And then came the earthquake, with strange groanings and moanings of the earth; with frightful stenches of sulphur and gas.

  61. Only in case of vitriol peats is so much sulphur present, that it is recognizable by the suffocating fumes of sulphuric acid or of sulphurous acid, which escape in the burning.

  62. The notion that, in general, peat and peat charcoal are peculiarly adapted for the iron manufacture, because they are free from sulphur and phosphorus, is extremely erroneous.

  63. He had a few sticks of pine wood which had been partly dipped in sulphur, and a few glass tubes, and he obtained more sulphur and some chlorate.

  64. About seventy years ago a young man named Lauria, in Lyons, France, watched his professor pound some sulphur and chlorate of potash together.

  65. Finally he dipped the end of one of the sticks into sulphur and then into the chlorate.

  66. I had intended to start the following day and join them, but the acid hypo that I had been using for fixing had given off so many sulphur fumes that I had been quite "gassed" for several days and had lost my voice in consequence.

  67. Gold, silver, copper, cinnabar and iron are found; sulphur is abundant in volcanic districts.

  68. Gunpowder was not invented by any one; it was the lineal successor of the Greek fire, which, like itself, was composed of sulphur and saltpetre.

  69. What was his surprise to see the sulphur shine with so extraordinary a brilliancy as to be almost unbearable to the eye.

  70. He did not answer for a few moments, but occupied himself by lighting it with a reeking sulphur match.


  71. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sulphur" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    sulphur dioxide; sulphur trioxide; sulphureted hydrogen; sulphuretted hydrogen; sulphuric acid; sulphuric ether; sulphurous acid