Definitions for sulfurs

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sulfurs sul·fur

Spelling: [suhl-fer]

IPA: /ˈsʌl fər/

Sulfurs is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 62 anagrams from letters in sulfurs (flrssuu).

Definitions for sulfurs

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 sulfurs

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

Examples for sulfurs

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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