SULPHUR
\sˈʌlfə], \sˈʌlfə], \s_ˈʌ_l_f_ə]\
Definitions of SULPHUR
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
By Oddity Software
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
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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.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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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.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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beta Lactams
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