Sulphur is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SULPHUR in dictionary:

VERB:
• to treat with sulphur, also SULFUR
• disinfect or fumigate with sulphur.
• treat with sulphur in order to preserve
• treat with sulphur
NOUN:
• a non metallic element
• the chemical element of atomic number 16, a yellow combustible non-metal
• the material of which hellfire and lightning were formerly believed to consist.
• a pale greenish-yellow colour
• an American butterfly with predominantly yellow wings that may bear darker patches.
• pale yellow nonmetallic element
• A nonmetallic element occurring naturally in large quantities, either combined as in the sulphides (as pyrites) and sulphates (as gypsum), or native in volcanic regions, in vast beds mixed with gypsum and various earthy materials, from which it is melted out. Symbol S. Atomic weight 32. The specific gravity of ordinary octohedral sulphur is 2.05; of prismatic sulphur, 1.96.
• Any one of numerous species of yellow or orange butterflies of the subfamily Pierinae; as, the clouded sulphur (Eurymus, / Colias, philodice), which is the common yellow butterfly of the Eastern United States.
• 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)
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to sulfur

Words related to SULPHUR

brimstone13 sulfur9 sulphured15 sulphuric16 sulphuring16 sulphurs13 sulphury16

How to use SULPHUR in a sentence

• But in spite of this fact, there were plenty of distinguished-looking people at the White Sulphur.
• Copper, iron, and sulphur, all were there together.
• It was a sort of jaws of hell, a pit of fire, sulphur, and saltpetre, which it seemed impossible to approach and live.
• Only it was a bigger smell than any sulphur match could make.
• When deer or cattle have rheumatism, they invariably seek a health resort where they may bathe in a sulphur spring and drink of the healing mineral waters.
• Between four and five hundred tons of sulphur were obtained in New Orleans, at which place it had been imported for use in the manufacture of sugar.
• A molecule of sulphuric acid invariably contains two atoms of hydrogen, one of sulphur, and four of oxygen.
• It contains a somewhat large proportion of sulphur, as shown by the black colour assumed by metals with which it comes into touch.
• At last I came to some marshy ground of a similar character to that which I had met on the other side of the lake, with sulphur springs in the centre.
• Gold produced from Salt under the combined action of Sulphur and Mercury, 778-m.
• Sulphur expressed by the letter G, the initial letter of the Hebrew word Geparaith, 780-m.
• Sulphur of philosophy represents the vital energy and ardor of the will, 790-u.
• Found enormous ledge of black quartz, looks like sulphur stem during volcanic era but may be iron.
• These soft, pure white sulphur waters work miracles of healing, and attract all sorts of people.
• To harden his India-rubber, he put a very small quantity of sulphur into it, or sprinkled sulphur upon the surface and dried it in the sun.
• By-and-by a sulphur butterfly excited him so that he must run up the broad stone steps with the news.
• We thought that this extraordinary heat was caused by the steam of boiling water, strongly impregnated with sulphur.

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