Sulphur is a yellow element that smells of rotten eggs when burnt. Yellow sulphur, the smell of sulphur, sulphur dioxide.
Pure sulphur has no smell at all — the rotten egg smell is hydrogen sulphide, a compound of it. It is mined around volcanoes and is the raw material of sulphuric acid, which is made in greater quantity than any other industrial chemical. Americans spell it sulfur.
1nounsulphurA yellow element that smells of rotten eggs when burnt.
“The hot volcanic spring smelled strongly of sulphur.”
sulphur is an element.
Also accepted in games: sulfur
Middle English
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English
sulfur
English, today
sulphur
sulfur comes from Middle English sulphur. From Middle English sulphur, borrowed from Anglo-Norman sulfre, from Latin sulfur, from sulpur itself of uncertain origin. Displaced Old English swefl and largely displaced brimstone.
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