The word 'sulphurous' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is used to describe something that contains or is related to sulfur or has a strong, pungent smell like sulfur. You can use it in formal or informal writing, such as in literature, scientific articles, or everyday conversations. Example: The volcanologists warned the villagers to evacuate their homes due to the high levels of sulphurous gas emitting from the nearby volcano.
Gourmet, however, uses chinese cabbage instead, which I'm not keen on: it may be crunchier, but the slightly sulphurous flavour seems all wrong.
The sulphurous outpourings of this little magma factory thrusting its head above the mid-Atlantic ridge make the rotten eggs thrown at many an English comic at the Glasgow Empire seem positively benign.
A string of rulings have earned the convention a sulphurous reputation in Britain.
Every night immense convoys like this one snake their way into the Indian capital, belching sulphurous diesel smoke.
Few women are veiled; they squeeze into shared taxis with men, buttock to buttock.And non-Islamic superstition persists: mosques are said miraculously to build themselves at night, sulphurous crater lakes serve as wishing wells, and witch doctors, more influential than most mullahs, are paid to cast or remove spells.
But since the sale was completed, new investment has sparked a boom in Zambia's copperbelt.When the men from Anglo returned, they found rusting machinery, lax safety standards and cooling towers that spewed sulphurous fumes over the surrounding countryside.
The only question is whether they can win broad IAEA backing, or whether they and the Americans must do the referring themselves.And a helpful presidentMeanwhile, Mr Ahmadinejad continues to make sulphurous statements that jangle the nerves even of those who believe that Iran's nuclear dabbling is peaceful or bluff.
The fuel in most of India's cars and lorries is filthy and sulphurous.
But the clearing of the bottleneck in Cushing has released a surge of light crude to the Gulf Coast, creating a new blockage, according to Michele Della Vigna, of Goldman Sachs, a bank.Gulf refineries are using as much light and sweet American crude as they can, but most are designed to process heavier, more sulphurous grades from the Middle East and Africa.
But if and when prices slump, as new fields elsewhere come on stream, Venezuela's natural disadvantages its oil is heavy and sulphurous, and more expensive to pump combined with its cavalier treatment of foreign investors may prompt the oil firms to walk away just when Mr Chávez most needs them to maintain his country's, and his regime's, principal source of revenue.
Venezuela provides about 10% of American oil imports, and Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), the state oil monopoly, owns Citgo, an American oil distributor which has several refineries specially adapted to process the country's heavy and sulphurous crude.
