Sulphur
noun
A yellow chemical element that is found naturally in the earth and used in making drugs, dyes, etc.
The strong smell of sulphur filled the air around the volcano.
Often appears as...
- sulphur dioxide
- sulphuric acid
noun
Sulphur is also a substance used in matches, gunpowder, and fireworks.
This matchbox contains small sticks with sulphur and phosphorus on the tip.
Often appears as...
- sulphur matches
- sulphur gunpowder
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A yellow chemical element that is found naturally in the earth and used in making drugs, dyes, etc.
The strong smell of sulphur filled the air around the volcano.
Often appears as...
- sulphur dioxide
- sulphuric acid
noun
Sulphur is also a substance used in matches, gunpowder, and fireworks.
This matchbox contains small sticks with sulphur and phosphorus on the tip.
Often appears as...
- sulphur matches
- sulphur gunpowder
Usage tips
Technical
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Pro Tip 1/3Natural Occurrences
Sulphur is commonly found around volcanic areas and hot springs.
Tourists visit Yellowstone to see the sulphur geysers.
Pro Tip 2/3Industrial Use
Sulphur is a key ingredient in industrial processes like making fertilizers.
The factory processes tonnes of sulphur annually for fertilizers.
Pro Tip 3/3Characteristic Smell
Sulphur is associated with a distinct, pungent odor, often likened to rotten eggs.
A sulphur leak at the plant caused a widespread foul smell.
Pro Tip 1/3Natural Occurrences
Sulphur is commonly found around volcanic areas and hot springs.
Tourists visit Yellowstone to see the sulphur geysers.
Pro Tip 2/3Industrial Use
Sulphur is a key ingredient in industrial processes like making fertilizers.
The factory processes tonnes of sulphur annually for fertilizers.
Pro Tip 3/3Characteristic Smell
Sulphur is associated with a distinct, pungent odor, often likened to rotten eggs.
A sulphur leak at the plant caused a widespread foul smell.
Pro Tip 1/3Natural Occurrences
Sulphur is commonly found around volcanic areas and hot springs.
Tourists visit Yellowstone to see the sulphur geysers.
Pro Tip 2/3Industrial Use
Sulphur is a key ingredient in industrial processes like making fertilizers.
The factory processes tonnes of sulphur annually for fertilizers.
Pro Tip 3/3Characteristic Smell
Sulphur is associated with a distinct, pungent odor, often likened to rotten eggs.
A sulphur leak at the plant caused a widespread foul smell.
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New Discovery: Blood-Red...
always think well to have life on a planet it has to be like earth this cave is certainly not like Earth the worms and sulfur cave survive without sunlight because they're living on bacteria that get all their energy from the hot spring water that feeds the cave so this could be similar to what might
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How supercharged plants...
And so, that is also a problem as well. Plants that are making more carbon, those soils become enriched in carbon. And carbon-enriched soils actually hold nitrogen and they hold sulphur and they hold phosphate -- all the minerals that are required for plants to grow and have a good yield.
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Whatever happened to...
would raise energy costs and threaten jobs. These obstacles led the government to delay changes, and mandate further research into the issue. But after a decade of mounting concern, Congress finally took action. Since the bulk of sulfur dioxide emissions came from power plants,
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How to create cleaner...
and our power our gadgets around the clock. And for 40% of the world, that fuel is cheap, plentiful, and it's called coal. But coal also releases pollutants into the air, like sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, soot, and toxic metals, like mercury.
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Are There Aliens on...
potentially other molecules that can mimic the same signal like sulfur dioxide. If the signal is real and it is phosphine, we still have to be able to explain what or who is making it. And only then could we consider that we have found life.
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The mysterious origins...
There are two kinds of hydrothermal black smokers and white smokers. Black smokers release acidic, carbon-dioxide-rich water, heated to hundreds of degrees Celsius and packed with sulphur, iron, copper, and other metals essential to life.
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Can VR help create...
because typically when there's volcanic vents they also have some toxic chemical for example sulfur these guys are pure carbon dioxide so they show us the future of all of the oceans in the world it turns out that 20% of human produced
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The world’s most...
And during digestion, mammalian gut bacteria breaks down sulfur and amino acids containing sulfur to produce hydrogen disulphide, a gas with a smell resembling rotten eggs. Seals and sea lions can’t help their funky flatulence,
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Mars 101 PIPE National...
sulphur which may have created a protective magnetic field during Mars's earlier years enveloping the core is a rocky mantle made of silicate minerals and a crust rich in iron these iron minerals react with the trace amounts of
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Drones Sacrificed for...
be very useful and figuring out which layers are iron-rich which layers are sulfur rich within the caldera as a whole there's certainly life coating the walls as you go down on some of the surfaces down at the bottom almost
Video examples
New Discovery: Blood-Red...
always think well to have life on a planet it has to be like earth this cave is certainly not like Earth the worms and sulfur cave survive without sunlight because they're living on bacteria that get all their energy from the hot spring water that feeds the cave so this could be similar to what might
Video examples
How supercharged plants...
And so, that is also a problem as well. Plants that are making more carbon, those soils become enriched in carbon. And carbon-enriched soils actually hold nitrogen and they hold sulphur and they hold phosphate -- all the minerals that are required for plants to grow and have a good yield.
Video examples
Whatever happened to...
would raise energy costs and threaten jobs. These obstacles led the government to delay changes, and mandate further research into the issue. But after a decade of mounting concern, Congress finally took action. Since the bulk of sulfur dioxide emissions came from power plants,
Video examples
How to create cleaner...
and our power our gadgets around the clock. And for 40% of the world, that fuel is cheap, plentiful, and it's called coal. But coal also releases pollutants into the air, like sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, soot, and toxic metals, like mercury.
Video examples
Are There Aliens on...
potentially other molecules that can mimic the same signal like sulfur dioxide. If the signal is real and it is phosphine, we still have to be able to explain what or who is making it. And only then could we consider that we have found life.
Video examples
The mysterious origins...
There are two kinds of hydrothermal black smokers and white smokers. Black smokers release acidic, carbon-dioxide-rich water, heated to hundreds of degrees Celsius and packed with sulphur, iron, copper, and other metals essential to life.
Video examples
Can VR help create...
because typically when there's volcanic vents they also have some toxic chemical for example sulfur these guys are pure carbon dioxide so they show us the future of all of the oceans in the world it turns out that 20% of human produced
Video examples
The world’s most...
And during digestion, mammalian gut bacteria breaks down sulfur and amino acids containing sulfur to produce hydrogen disulphide, a gas with a smell resembling rotten eggs. Seals and sea lions can’t help their funky flatulence,
Video examples
Mars 101 PIPE National...
sulphur which may have created a protective magnetic field during Mars's earlier years enveloping the core is a rocky mantle made of silicate minerals and a crust rich in iron these iron minerals react with the trace amounts of
Video examples
Drones Sacrificed for...
be very useful and figuring out which layers are iron-rich which layers are sulfur rich within the caldera as a whole there's certainly life coating the walls as you go down on some of the surfaces down at the bottom almost
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Quote examples
Scott Rogowsky
American Comedian
I grew up as a Food Emporium and Waldbaum's and A&P kid, and Trader Joe's came with their own line of products that all seem healthy, even though they probably aren't. That said, I do love the dried fruit because it's made without the sulfates and the sulfur dioxides and preservatives and is totally delicious.
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Seth Moulton
American Politician
The EPA issued the MATS rule in 2012, and it is the first national standard created to address power plant emissions of toxic air pollutants. Under MATS, power plants are required to install equipment to reduce emissions of specific pollutants, such as mercury and sulfur dioxide.
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Andrew H. Knoll
American Scientist
If you look at the ecological circuitry of this planet, the ways in which materials like carbon or sulfur or phosphorous or nitrogen get cycled in ways that makes them available for our biology, the organisms that do the heavy lifting are bacteria.
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Paul Hawken
American Environmentalist
Natural capital is easy to overlook because it is the pond we swim in. One can live perfectly well without ever giving a thought to the sulfur cycle or wetland functions. Only when the benefits nature provides are disrupted do we take notice.
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Steve Buyer
American Politician
I strongly support the Bush Administration's clean diesel rules, which will reduce air pollution from diesel engines by more than 90 percent, and reduce the sulfur content of diesel fuel by more than 95 percent.
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Tatiana Schlossberg
Cargo ships typically burn dirty fuel that releases pollutants like nitrous oxide and sulfur dioxide, which can cause various cancers and childhood asthma for people living in port cities.
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Sloane Crosley
American Writer
I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you're not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason the effort to be funny smells like sulphur in our culture.
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Dolores Huerta
American Activist
We had violence directed at us by the growers themselves, trying to run us down by cars, pointing rifles at us, spraying the people when they were on the picket line with sulfur.
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Nathan Myhrvold
American Businessman
For relatively modest amounts of sulfur dioxide injected into the atmosphere, you could easily cool Earth by 1% or more, if you want.
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Rose George
British Journalist
In Los Angeles, half of all smog from sulfur dioxide comes in from ships.
Quote examples
Scott Rogowsky
American Comedian
I grew up as a Food Emporium and Waldbaum's and A&P kid, and Trader Joe's came with their own line of products that all seem healthy, even though they probably aren't. That said, I do love the dried fruit because it's made without the sulfates and the sulfur dioxides and preservatives and is totally delicious.
Quote examples
Seth Moulton
American Politician
The EPA issued the MATS rule in 2012, and it is the first national standard created to address power plant emissions of toxic air pollutants. Under MATS, power plants are required to install equipment to reduce emissions of specific pollutants, such as mercury and sulfur dioxide.
Quote examples
Andrew H. Knoll
American Scientist
If you look at the ecological circuitry of this planet, the ways in which materials like carbon or sulfur or phosphorous or nitrogen get cycled in ways that makes them available for our biology, the organisms that do the heavy lifting are bacteria.
Quote examples
Paul Hawken
American Environmentalist
Natural capital is easy to overlook because it is the pond we swim in. One can live perfectly well without ever giving a thought to the sulfur cycle or wetland functions. Only when the benefits nature provides are disrupted do we take notice.
Quote examples
Steve Buyer
American Politician
I strongly support the Bush Administration's clean diesel rules, which will reduce air pollution from diesel engines by more than 90 percent, and reduce the sulfur content of diesel fuel by more than 95 percent.
Quote examples
Tatiana Schlossberg
Cargo ships typically burn dirty fuel that releases pollutants like nitrous oxide and sulfur dioxide, which can cause various cancers and childhood asthma for people living in port cities.
Quote examples
Sloane Crosley
American Writer
I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you're not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason the effort to be funny smells like sulphur in our culture.
Quote examples
Dolores Huerta
American Activist
We had violence directed at us by the growers themselves, trying to run us down by cars, pointing rifles at us, spraying the people when they were on the picket line with sulfur.
Quote examples
Nathan Myhrvold
American Businessman
For relatively modest amounts of sulfur dioxide injected into the atmosphere, you could easily cool Earth by 1% or more, if you want.
Quote examples
Rose George
British Journalist
In Los Angeles, half of all smog from sulfur dioxide comes in from ships.
Example 1 of 10
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