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treat with sulphur in order to preserve; "These dried fruits are sulphured"

treat with sulphur in order to preserve; "These dried fruits are sulphured"

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.

A pale-yellow nonmetallic substance which burns in air with a flame and suffocating odor.

Non-metal; sudorific and laxative.

A yellow mineral substance, very brittle, fusible, and inflammable: brimstone.

A pale yellow, non-metallic, inflammable substance; brimstone.

A simple mineral substance, of a yellow colour, brittle, insoluble in water, but fusible by heat; brimstone.

One of the elementary substances occurring in nature as a greenish-yellow, brittle, solid body, crystalline in structure, and exhaling a peculiar odour when rubbed, burns with a bluish flame, and emits most suffocating fumes; brimstone.

It is a volcanic production, and is obtained, in large quantities, from Solfatara, in Italy. Roll Sulphur is impure sulphur, melted, and run into moulds. It is unpleasantly inodorous, when heated or rubbed; insipid; solid, and brittle. S. g. 1-99. Fusible at 226; volatilizable by heat, and condensing unchanged.

A non-metallic element; said by some to be a compound: symbol S.

A non-metallic element occurring in nature both free and combined. It forms yellow transparent rhombic crystals, insoluble in water, and only slightly soluble in alcohol or ether, but very soluble in carbon disulphid, in benzene, in petroleum, and in oil of turpentine. Atomic weight,32. Symbol, S. It is a laxative; also used in diseases of the skin.

n. [Latin] An elementary non-metallic substance of a yellow colour, brittle, insoluble in water, burning with a blue flame and a peculiar suffocating odour ; brimstone.