sulfur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌl.fə/
enpr: sŭl'fər
ipa: /ˈsʌl.fɚ/
Forms: form: sulfurs
form: sulphur
Etymology: 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.
Senses: examples: text: A Dungeon horrible, on all ſides round / As one great Furnace flam’d, yet from thoſe flames / No light, but rather darkneſs viſible / […] but torture without end / Still urges, and a fiery Deluge, fed / With ever-burning Sulphur unconſum’d:
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC:
text: Sure only that man is mortal; that with the life of one mortal snaps irrevocably the wonderfulest talisman, and all Dubarrydom rushes off, with tumult, into infinite Space; and ye, as subterranean Apparitions are wont, vanish utterly,—leaving only a smell of sulphur!
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter 1, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book I (Death of Louis XV):
text: Scarcely had these manifestations ceased at Ustica, than Vesuvius began to show signs of increased activity; the supplies in the wells on the mountain sides began to fail, and there was observed a strong taste of sulphur in the drinking water; whilst—most dreaded phenomenon of all—the ever-active crater of Stromboli, that lies midway between Naples and Messina, suddenly lapsed into quiescence.
ref: 1907, Herbert M. Vaughan, The Naples Riviera:
text: It went like this: first, we were cavemen, then there was ancient Greece, then Rome burned (cue sulfur-odor FX), then there was the Great Depression, and, finally, we reached the modern age.
ref: 2003, Cory Doctorow, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Tor Books:
text: Local workers hike up the side of the mountain and down into the crater at the top to harvest its sulfur—a byproduct of the gas that escapes from the volcano’s vents and collects near the shores of an acidic lake at the crater’s center. The chemical is used in industry worldwide, from making matchsticks to vulcanizing rubber, but Ijen’s sulfur goes mostly to local factories, which use it to bleach sugar.
ref: 2015 February 25, Kevin McElvaney, “Inside Indonesia's Ijen Volcano”, in The Atlantic:
synonyms: brimstone
hypernyms: chalcogen
glosses: A chemical element (symbol S) with an atomic number of 16, having a bright yellow color and characteristic smell, used commercially in a variety of products such as insecticides, black powder, and matchsticks.
glosses: A yellowish green colour, like that of sulfur.
coordinate_terms: yellow
glosses: Any of various pierid butterflies of the subfamily Coliadinae, especially the sulfur-coloured species.
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from sulfur (noun)
word: biosulfur
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word: catenapolysulfur
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word: cloudless sulfur
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word: desulfur
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word: desulphur
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word: disulfur
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word: disulphur
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word: disuprazole
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word: flowers of sulfur
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word: flowers of sulphur
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word: green non-sulfur bacteria
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word: green sulfur bacteria
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word: hepar sulphuris
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word: hydrodesulfurization
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word: hydrohydrodesulphurisation
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word: hydrohydrodesulphurization
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word: iron-sulfur cluster
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word: iron-sulphur cluster
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word: iron-sulfur protein
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word: lime sulfur
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word: low-sulfur
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word: low-sulphur
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word: monosulfur
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word: multisulfur
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word: nonsulfur
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word: octasulfur
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word: organosulfur
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word: polysulfur
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word: potash of sulfur
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word: potash of sulphur
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word: prill sulfur
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word: purple pitcher plant
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word: purple sulfur bacterium
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word: radiosulfur
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word: sufentanil
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word: sulazepam
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word: sulfa-
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word: sulpha-
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word: sulfonium
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word: sulphonium
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word: sulf-
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word: sulfo-
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word: sulph-
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word: sulpho-
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word: sulfur-32
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word: sulfur-33
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word: sulfur-34
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word: sulfur-35
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word: sulfur-36
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word: sulfur acid
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word: sulphur acid
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word: sulfur alcohol
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word: sulphur alcohol
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word: sulfurane
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word: sulfurase
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word: sulfurate
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word: sulphurate
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word: sulfur bacterium
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word: sulphur bacterium
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word: sulfur bath
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word: sulphur bath
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word: sulfur-bottom
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word: sulphur-bottom
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word: sulfur-bottom whale
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word: sulphur-bottom whale
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word: sulfur buckwheat
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word: sulfur butterfly
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word: sulphur butterfly
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word: sulfur candle
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word: sulfur cast
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word: sulphur cast
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word: sulfur cockatoo
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word: sulphur cockatoo
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word: sulfur-colored
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word: sulphur-coloured
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word: sulfur-color
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word: sulphur-colour
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word: sulfur cone
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word: sulfur-crested cockatoo
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word: sulphur-crested cockatoo
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word: sulfur cycle
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word: sulphur cycle
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word: sulfur dibromide
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word: sulphur dibromide
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word: sulfur dichloride
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word: sulfur dioxide
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word: sulphur dioxide
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word: sulfured
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word: sulphured
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word: sulfur ether
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word: sulphur ether
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word: sulfuretum
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word: sulphuretum
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word: sulfur fungus
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word: sulphur fungus
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word: sulfur hexafluoride
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word: sulphur hexafluoride
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word: sulfurian
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word: sulfuric
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word: sulphuric
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word: sulfuriferous
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word: sulphuriferous
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word: sulfur impression
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word: sulphur impression
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word: sulfuring
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word: sulphuring
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word: sulfur-iodine cycle
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word: sulfurise
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word: sulfurity
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word: sulphurity
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word: sulfurization
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word: sulfurless
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word: sulfurlike
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word: sulfur match
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word: sulphur match
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word: sulfur monoxide
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word: sulphur monoxide
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word: sulfur mustard
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word: sulfur nitride
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word: sulfur ore
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word: sulphur ore
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word: sulfur oxide
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word: sulphur oxide
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word: sulfur parakeet
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word: sulphur parakeet
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word: sulfur pearl
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word: sulphur pearl
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word: sulfur print
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word: sulphur print
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word: sulfur pyrites
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word: sulphur pyrites
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word: sulfur rain
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word: sulphur rain
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word: sulfur salt
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word: sulphur salt
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word: sulfur shower
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word: sulphur shower
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word: sulfur soap
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word: sulphur soap
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word: sulfur spring
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word: sulphur spring
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word: sulfurtransferase
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word: sulfur tree
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word: sulphur tree
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word: sulfur trioxide
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word: sulphur trioxide
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word: sulfur tuft
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word: sulphur tuft
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word: sulfur weed
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word: sulphur weed
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word: sulfur works
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word: sulphur works
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word: sulfurwort
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word: sulphurwort
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word: sulfur yellow
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word: sulphur yellow
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word: sulfuryl
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word: sulphuryl
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word: sulfury
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word: sulphury
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word: sulnidazole
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word: sulphur cone
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word: sulphur-headed cauliflower
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word: sulphur of ivy
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word: sulphur shelf
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word: sulfur shelf
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word: sulphur vivum
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word: sulvanite
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word: tetrasulfur
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word: tetrasulphur
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word: ultra-low sulfur diesel, ultra-low sulphur diesel
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word: unsulfured
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word: vegetable sulfur
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word: vegetable sulphur
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word: virgin sulfur
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word: virgin sulphur
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word: volcanic sulfur
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word: volcanic sulphur
Related terms: desulfurize
desulphurise
desulphurize
disulfoton
solfatara
sulfa
sulpha
sulfane
sulphane
sulfatase
sulphatase
sulfate
sulphate
sulfated
sulphated
sulfide
sulphide
sulfite
sulphite
sulfonal
sulphonal
sulfonamide
sulphonamide
sulfone
sulphone
sulphureo-
sulfureous
sulphureous
sulfuret
sulphuret
sulfurize
sulphurise
sulphurize
sulfurous
sulphurous
sulphur vivum
sulpiride