thiobacteria sulphur bacteria sulfur bacteria | any bacterium of the genus Thiobacillus |
blue whale sulfur bottom Balaenoptera musculus | largest mammal ever known, bluish-grey migratory whalebone whale mostly of southern hemisphere |
sulphur butterfly sulfur butterfly | any of numerous yellow or orange butterflies |
sulphur mine sulfur mine | a mine where sulphur is dug from the ground |
sulfur paintbrush Castilleja sulphurea | plant of moist highland meadows having ragged clusters of pale yellow flowers |
sulfur S sulphur atomic number | 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) |
brimstone native sulfur native sulphur | an old name for sulfur |
mustard gas mustard agent blistering agent dichloroethyl sulfide sulfur mustard | a toxic war gas with sulfide based compounds that raises blisters and attacks the eyes and lungs, there is no known antidote |
sulfur oxide sulphur oxide | any of several oxides of sulphur |
sulfur dioxide sulphur dioxide | a colorless toxic gas (SO) that occurs in the gases from volcanoes, used in many manufacturing processes and present in industrial emissions, causes acid rain |
sulfur hexafluoride sulphur hexafluoride | a colorless gas that is soluble in alcohol and ether, a powerful greenhouse gas widely used in the electrical utility industry |
sulphur sulfur | treat with sulphur in order to preserve, These dried fruits are sulphured |
sulfur-yellow sulphur-yellow | of something having the yellow color of sulfur |
sultry stifling sulfurous sulphurous | characterized by oppressive heat and humidity, the summer was sultry and oppressive, the stifling atmosphere, the sulfurous atmosphere preceding a thunderstorm |
b acerb acerbic acid acrid bitter blistering caustic sulfurous sulphurous virulent vitriolic ba | harsh or corrosive in tone, an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose, a barrage of acid comments, her acrid remarks make her many enemies, bitter words, blistering criticism, caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and medical ethics, a sulfurous denunciation, a vitriolic critique |
sulfurous sulphurous | of or related to or containing sulfur or derived from sulfur |