Definition of sulphur | Bee Dictionary of English

n an abundant tasteless odorless multivalent nonmetallic element; best known in yellow crystals; occurs in many sulphide and sulphate minerals and even in native form (especially in volcanic regions)
v treat with sulphur in order to preserve
These dried fruits are sulphured

Steel manufacturers know that sulphur (an undesirable impurity) gets into steel from the coal used as fuel.
He was nine when the family immigrated from Sicily, where his father had labored in the sulphur pits, to New York City.
For the second time this year sensation-hungry tourists at his Suicide Point witnessed a triple plunge into the sulphur-stinking maw of Death.

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Peter Costello in Sydney Morning Herald
Our results are consistent and mutually supportive with a number of new studies...... that reveal a very short time for the main Deccan eruptions at or near the KT boundary and the massive carbon dioxide and sulphur dioxide output of each major... Gerta Keller http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerta_Keller&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHA7gak6A0m9O8T88JudDU1qMFHQQ Sify http://www.google.com/url?q=http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php%3Fid%3D14553948%26vsv%3DSHGTslot2&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNG8h04nhzJUq5_fQsigr7_vkIPohQ Nov 1, 2007 96348 127846 sulphur Given current market conditions, the Government has decided there will be no increase in excise to fund this incentive," Mr Costello said in a statement. "The incentive for low sulphur premium unleaded petrol will be funded from the budget....
Paul Crutzen in Reuters
Our calculations using the best models available have shown that injecting 1 million tonnes of sulphur a year would cool down the climate so the greenhouse effect is wiped out,Crutzen told Reuters.