Definitions for sulfur

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sulfur sul·fur

Spelling: [suhl-fer]

IPA: /ˈsʌl fər/

Sulfur is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 48 anagrams from letters in sulfur (flrsuu).

Definitions for sulfur

noun

1. Also, especially British, sulphur. Chemistry. a nonmetallic element that exists in several forms, the ordinary one being a yellow rhombic crystalline solid, and that burns with a blue flame and a suffocating odor: used especially in making gunpowder and matches, in medicine, in vulcanizing rubber, etc. Symbol: S; atomic weight: 32.064; atomic number: 16; specific gravity: 2.07 at 20° C.
2. sulphur (def 2).

Origin of sulfur

1300-50; Middle English sulphur Latin sulpur, sulphur, sulfur brimstone, sulfur

Examples for sulfur

Four are non-metallic solids: carbon, sulfur, phosphorus and silicon.

These are nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, and (possibly) sulfur.

These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.

The flowers of sulfur may be dusted thinly over the foliage; enough merely to slightly whiten the foliage is sufficient.

Violently ill, I felt the sulfur dioxide rush from my lungs.

sulfur boosts glutathione because glutathione is, in part, made up of sulfur molecules, explains Hyman.

Pfifferling, like most natural wine producers, adds no sulfur dioxide aside from minimal amounts when he bottles the wine.

A sulfid is a combination of sulfur with a metal or other body.

Under no circumstances, however, ignite any sulfur in a greenhouse.

Again, a paint composed of sulfur and linseed oil may be applied to a portion of one of the steam or hot-water heating pipes.