sulfur
A chemical element with atomic number 16, having a bright yellow color and…A chemical element with atomic number 16, having a bright yellow color and characteristic smell, used commercially in a variety of products such as insecticides, black powder, and matchsticks.
» I don't like the smell of sulfur.
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4 senses(uncountable, usually)A chemical element with atomic number 16, having a bright yellow color and characteristic smell, used commercially in a variety of products such as insecticides, black powder, and matchsticks.
Schwefel
се́раséra
сі́ркаsírka
A chemical element with atomic number 16, having a bright yellow color and characteristic smell, used commercially in a variety of products such as insecticides, black powder, and matchsticks.
(uncountable, usually)The element symbolically associated with hellfire or damnation, or in alchemy, the fiery principle present in all things.
(countable, uncountable, usually)A yellowish green colour, like that of sulfur.
(uncountable, usually)Any of various pierid butterflies of the subfamily Coliadinae, especially the sulfur-coloured species.
- 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)
Examples
12 sentencesI don't like the smell of sulfur.
Sulfur is used to make matches.
ruСеру используют для изготовления спичек. — fjay69
deSchwefel wird zur Herstellung von Streichhölzern verwendet. — Zaghawa
Sulfur burns with a blue flame.
ruСера горит синим пламенем. — fjay69
deSchwefel brennt mit blauer Flamme. — MUIRIEL
Hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, oxygen, sulfur and selenium are nonmetals.
Водень, вуглець, азот, фосфор, кисень, сіра та селен є неметалами. — deniko
ruВодород, углерод, азот, фосфор, кислород, сера и селен являются неметаллами. — Balamax
I like the smell of sulfur.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English sulphur, borrowed from Anglo-Norman sulfre, from Latin sulfur, from suFrom 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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Forms
plural: sulfursSynonyms
5 synonymsWord family
116 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
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