See Also: sulphurous(medicine)
sulphurous(dictionary)
sulphurous(dictionary)

sulphurous (iou)



sulphurous adjective. Also (US & Chemistry) sulfurous. LME.
[from Latin sulphurosus or from SULPHUR: see -OUS.]
Of or pertaining to sulphur; containing or consisting of sulphur. LME.
Produced by or emanating from sulphur; (esp. of smoke, smells, etc.) suggestive of burning sulphur. E17.
b. Of thunder or lightning (poet.); thundery, sultry. E17.
She The river..lay still under a sulphurous sky.
Of hell; pertaining to or dealing with hell-fire. E17.
Southey Like Satan rising from the sulphurous flood.
b. fig. Ardent, fiery; heated; blasphemous, profane. E17.
Listener Relations between the South Vietnamese and the US were sulphurous.
Chemistry. Designating compounds in which sulphur is present in a larger proportion than in sulphuric compounds; containing tetravalent sulphur; derived from sulphurous acid. L18.
sulphurous acid a weak acid with the notional formula H2SO3, known only in solution and as salts (sulphites). sulphurous anhydride, sulphurous oxide = sulphur dioxide s.v. SULPHUR noun.
Of the yellow colour of sulphur. M19.
sulphurously adverb L19.
sulphurousness noun L17.