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An apparatus for impregnating with, or exposing to the action of, sulphur; especially, an apparatus for fumigating or bleaching by means of the fumes of burning sulphur.
The quality or state of being sulphureous.
Consisting of sulphur; having the qualities of sulphur, or brimstone; impregnated with sulphur.
A sulphide; as, a sulphuret of potassium.
Combined or impregnated with sulphur; sulphurized.
Of or pertaining to sulphur; as, a sulphuric smell.
Derived from, or containing, sulphur; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with the sulphurous compounds; as, sulphuric acid.
Sulphureous.
Exposure to the fumes of burning sulphur, as in bleaching; the process of bleaching by exposure to the fumes of sulphur.
To combine or impregnate with sulphur or any of its compounds; as, to sulphurize caoutchouc in vulcanizing.
Of or pertaining to sulphur.
Derived from, or containing, sulphur; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a lower valence as contrasted with the sulphuric compounds.
Having the characteristic odor of sulphur dioxide, or of hydrogen sulphide, or of other sulphur compounds.
The hog's fennel. See under Fennel.
Resembling, or partaking of the nature of, sulphur; having the qualities of sulphur.
The hypothetical radical SO2; -- called also sulphon.
A compound, analogous to a hydrate, regarded as a salt of sulphydric acid, or as a derivative of hydrogen sulphide in which one half of the hydrogen is replaced by a base (as potassium sulphydrate, KSH), or as a hydrate in which the oxygen has been wholly or partially replaced by sulphur.
Of, pertaining to, or designating, hydrogen sulphide, which is regarded as an acid, especially when in solution.
One of an order of priests established in France in 1642 to educate men for the ministry. The order was introduced soon afterwards into Canada, and in 1791 into the United States.
A ruler, or sovereign, of a Mohammedan state; specifically, the ruler of the Turks; the Padishah, or Grand Seignior; -- officially so called.