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Discover LudwigThe word sulfur is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the chemical element, as well as when referring to a substance composed of this element. For example, "Sulfur has many uses, including in medicine and food preservation."
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sulfur
noun
A chemical element (symbol S) with an atomic number of 16.
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Nickel, sulfur, sulfate and calcium were 50 to 100 times higher than natural levels.
In 1974, as Congress debated amendments to the act cutting sulfur emissions, the head of American Electric Power spent $3.1m on an ad campaign to convince the American public that installing scrubbers on coal-fired power plants would be a disaster.
However, the EPA also, in keeping with traditional practice, adds in the co-benefits- the reduction in deaths and respiratory illnesses that comes through lower emissions of nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide and soot that result when carbon emissions are also reduced.
Third, government policies that have not accounted for economic responses have been excessively costly, often ineffective, and sometimes counterproductive.For example, he writes, the 1990 law establishing tradable permits to bring down sulfur dioxide emissions rather than using command-and-control regulations saves the economy $1 billion a year.
Those co-benefits come from reductions in soot that are a by product of sulfur dioxide emissions (SO2) and rest heavily on assumptions as opposed to hard scientific evidence.Since the 1980s, cost-benefit analysis has been progressively integrated into federal rule making by executive orders issued by various presidents.
Sulfur forms some 16 oxygen-bearing acids.
Sulfur mustard was synthesized in 1854.
Japan has large reserves of sulfur.
Coal, gypsum, and sulfur also are significant.
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Sulfur-bearing rock is piled into mounds.
Mercury's surface gravity is more than twice that of the Moon, partly because of the great density of the planet's huge iron-sulfur core.
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