English example sentences with "sulfur"

Sulfur is used to make matches.

Sulfur burns with a blue flame.

Hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, oxygen, sulfur and selenium are nonmetals.

Our atmosphere contains 21% oxygen, which is necessary for us to breathe, 78% nitrogen, and 0.9% argon. The other 0.1% consists of water vapor, carbon dioxide, neon, methane, krypton, helium, xenon, hydrogen, nitrous oxide, carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide, and ozone.

Jupiter's atmosphere is thought to be composed of hydrogen, helium, sulfur, and nitrogen. Clouds in the atmosphere move in alternating bands from east to west or west to east.

Our solar-system neighbors have ice mountains, frigid, liquid methane lakes, volcanoes that spew poisonous sulfur dioxide, and a colossal canyon as long as the continental U.S.

Jupiter's moon, Io, has more than 400 active volcanoes, making it the most geologically active object in the solar system. Several volcanoes on Io produce plumes of sulfur and sulfur dioxide that rise as high as 300 miles above its surface.

Methanethiol is an organic sulfur compound containing an alkyl or aryl group and a thiol group.

I like the smell of sulfur.

I don't like the smell of sulfur.

Sulfur smells like rotten eggs.

Sulfur has many uses, mostly industrial.

They say the devil smells of sulfur.

They say the devil smells like sulfur.

The findings made during MESSENGER’s mission included discovering that Mercury was abundant in volatile elements (potassium, sodium, and sulfur), that there’s water ice at its poles and that volcanism played an important role in shaping the planet’s surface.

When arsenopyrite (FeAsS) is dissolved in nitric acid, elemental sulfur is released and arsenic acid is formed.

Brimstone is another word for sulfur.