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Sulfur in sentence

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Last year, Americans killed each other at a rate of 5.3 per hundred thousand, had seven percent of their citizens in poverty and emitted 21 million tons of particulate matter and four million tons of sulfur dioxide.
But 30 years ago, the homicide rate was 8.5 per hundred thousand, poverty rate was 12 percent and we emitted 35 million tons of particulate matter and 20 million tons of sulfur dioxide.
I left out a lot today: phosphorus and sulfur and the other atoms, and why they all bond the way they do, and symmetry and non-bonding electrons, and atoms that are charged, and reactions and their mechanisms, and it goes on and on and on, and synthesis takes a long time to learn.
And we climbed up and we got to the very top, and we're on the edge, on this precipice, Roland disappears into the sulfur smoke at the volcano at the other end, and I'm up there alone on this incredible precipice.
That put a whole bunch of sulfur in the stratosphere with a sort of atomic bomb-like cloud.
Whether this idea is right or some other idea is right, I think it's almost certain we will eventually think of cleverer things to do than just putting sulfur in.
These are sulfur blocks.
That's why you're building these pyramids of sulfur blocks.
Conversely, there is no concentration at which the sulfur compound will smell like vodka.
Now, does it smell of sulfur?
So this fact that Boranes smell of sulfur had been known since 1910, and utterly forgotten until 1997, 1998.
It had three chemicals we were really surprised to see: sulfur, potassium nitrate and charcoal.
Yeah, the sulfur's melting.
It burned kind of slow, but it made a nice smell, compared to other rocket fuels I had tried, that all had sulfur in them.
As the water cools, ions precipitate out as mineral crystals, including quartz crystals from silicon and oxygen, feldspar from potassium, aluminum, silicon, and oxygen, galena from lead and sulfur.
Take galena, which has a cubic structure composed of lead and sulfur atoms.
The relatively large lead atoms are arranged in a three-dimensional grid 90 degrees from one another, while the relatively small sulfur atoms fit neatly between them.
As the crystal grows, locations like these attract sulfur atoms, while lead will tend to bond to these places.
To put sulfur dioxide in the stratosphere would cost on the order of a billion dollars a year.
So which means that it's really impossible to find an object where you find about 10 times more sulfur than silicon, five times more calcium than oxygen.
And it goes all the way over to these big, thick, galumphy ones that have hundreds of carbons, and they have thousands of hydrogens, and they have vanadium and heavy metals and sulfur and all kinds of craziness hanging off the sides of them.
Women and children are the worst affected, especially during times of economic hardship, when they have the least access to meat, beans, and other sources of sulfur amino acids necessary for the liver to detoxify cyanide in the body.
But, as the conservative author David Frum notes, over the last two decades, the US has experienced a swift decline in crime, auto fatalities, alcohol and tobacco consumption, and emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide, which cause acid rain – all while leading an Internet revolution.
And yet there are persistent reports that chemical weapons, including sulfur mustard (commonly known as mustard gas) and chlorine bombs deployed against civilians, continue to be used in Syria.
Work to clarify certain aspects of the government’s initial declaration about its weapons program is ongoing; but 1,300 metric tons of chemical weapons, including sulfur mustard and precursors for deadly nerve agents, have been accounted for and destroyed under the watchful eyes of OPCW inspectors.
Gas is also better for local air quality, owing to the absence of the sulfur dioxide, nitrous oxide, mercury, and particulates emitted by burning coal.
The amount of nitrogen and sulfur circulating through the Earth system has doubled.
Likewise, some volcanic eruptions, namely those that produce lots of sulfur, can cool the earth significantly.
Indeed, it is estimated that the sulfur currently in the atmosphere, mainly from combustion of coal and oil, may be masking a significant part of the expected greenhouse effect.
By contrast, white particles consist largely of sulfur from the burning of coal and oil.
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