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Sulphur in sentence

26 examples of Sulphur in a sentence

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.
This carbon core continues to collapse and as a result, the temperature increases, which allows further nuclear reactions to take place, and carbon then burns into oxygen, into neon, silicon, sulphur and ultimately iron.
It's a normal day of hard hats and hazards for New York's finest tunnel workers until a group of them are assaulted by acid, sulphur and...lava?
Indian children inhale large doses of sulphur and potassium chlorate to fashion flammable powder into matches.
In China, for example, sulphur dioxide emissions peaked in 2006 and have been declining since.
When ships navigate the Arctic, pollutants like sulphur oxide and black carbon are deposited onto the ice and snow.
Many types of natural capital, however, have not been included: fresh water, soil, forests as providers of ecosystem services, and the atmosphere as a sink for such pollution as particulates and nitrogen and sulphur oxides.
Sulphur grew like a yellow flower at the edge of the fissures.
They were there in the accursed city, in the midst of the flames which the passers-by on the plain could see through the fissures, spitting out sulphur and poisonous vapours.
"I tell ye, sargeant dear," said Betty, removing the mug from her mouth, "'tis no r'asonable to think it was more than the piddler himself; sure now, where was the smell of sulphur, and the wings, and the tail, and the cloven foot?
She was dark, much darker than is common among our border lasses, and yet with such a faint blush of pink breaking through her dainty colour, like the deeper flush at the heart of a sulphur rose.
The sulphur began to boil, to set fire to the wood, with a tardiness that increased his distress.
In the pale bluish light of the sulphur, in the vacillating glimmer, he fancied he could distinguish monstrous forms.
Her eyes and hair were of the same rich hazel colour, and her cheeks, though considerably freckled, were flushed with the exquisite bloom of the brunette, the dainty pink which lurks at the heart of the sulphur rose.
In some places the sulphur had formed crystals among other substances, such as whitish cinders made of an infinity of little feldspar crystals.
There is a sulphur spring there, which will cure all our sore throats."
They there saw a sulphur spring which flowed abundantly between the rocks, and its waters discharged a strong sulphuric acid odor, after having absorbed the oxygen of the air.
The sulphur spring not being of any actual use to the settlers, they proceeded towards the thick border of the forest, which began some hundred paces off.
coal and sulphur for powder, mercury and nitric acid for the fulminate, and lead for the shot, and the captain will make us first-rate guns."
For the most part they are combined with oxygen or sulphur.
This done, they set fire to the wood, the heat was communicated to the shist, which soon kindled, since it contains coal and sulphur.
Another long fiber, previously impregnated with sulphur, was attached to the middle of the first, by one end, while the other lay on the ground several feet distant from the mine.
But it would be easy to make some guncotton, or even ordinary powder, as we have azotic acid, saltpeter, sulphur, and coal.
As to powder, Cyrus Harding would have been able to make that also, for he had at his disposal saltpeter, sulphur, and coal; but this preparation requires extreme care, and without special tools it is difficult to produce it of a good quality.
The steel glimmers not for the carving of the banquet,It is hard, broad, and sharply pointed;The torch goeth not to the bridal chamber,It steams and glitters blue with sulphur.
"This concussion of the earth is no new thing," said Pangloss, "the city of Lima in South America experienced the same last year; the same cause, the same effects; there is certainly a train of sulphur all the way underground from Lima to Lisbon."