- 1硫、硫磺（美式拼法；英式作 sulphur）。台灣人最直接的印象就是溫泉區、北投地熱谷的硫磺味，還有硫磺皂。化學符號 S，原子序 16。當顏色用時指那種偏綠的淡黃色。
The chemical element sulfur — a bright yellow, brittle solid that burns with a blue flame and gives off a sharp, choking smell. It sits around volcanoes and hot springs in yellow crusts, and it is one of the elements people have known and used since ancient times, long before anyone knew what an element was: for medicine, for bleaching cloth, for , for matches. Today most of it goes into making sulfuric acid, which is one of the most-produced industrial chemicals in the world. Its symbol is S and its atomic number is 16. Two spelling notes, and they matter. First, sulfur with an f is the American spelling; British English long wrote sulphur, and you will still see that in older British books. The international chemistry body (IUPAC) chose sulfur, so scientific writing worldwide now uses the f — even in Britain, where school textbooks changed over. Second, the older English name for it is brimstone, which is why the Bible says 'fire and brimstone'; that word is now only used in that religious phrase and in the names of a few butterflies and plants. The word also works as an adjective for the colour — a sulfur-yellow sky, a sulfur-crested — meaning that particular pale, yellow.
組成從中古英文 sulphur 來，借自盎格魯-諾曼法語 sulfre，再往上是拉丁文 sulfur（更早的拼法 sulpur），來源不確定——大概是從義大利某個更古老的語言借來的，拉丁文自己也說不清楚。這個字進來以後，取代了古英文原本的 swefl，也大致取代了 brimstone。
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
sulfurnoun/ˈsʌl.fə/
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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.
- A Dungeon horrible, on all ſides round / As one great Furnace flam’d, yet from thoſe flames / No light, but rather darkneſs viſible / […] but torture without end / Still urges, and a fiery Deluge, fed / With ever-burning Sulphur unconſum’d:
- Sure only that man is mortal; that with the life of one mortal snaps irrevocably the wonderfulest talisman, and all Dubarrydom rushes off, with tumult, into infinite Space; and ye, as subterranean Apparitions are wont, vanish utterly,—leaving only a smell of sulphur!
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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.
- “She shall be blasted like a riven oak! Drowned in sulphur! Torn by whirlwinds!”
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A yellowish green colour, like that of sulfur.
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Any of various pierid butterflies of the subfamily Coliadinae, especially the sulfur-coloured species.
sulfuradj/ˈsʌl.fə/
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Of a yellowish green colour, like that of sulfur.
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Having a characteristic sulfur-like smell, reminiscent of rotten eggs.
- On the November morning when the sulfur burps began, Derron Borders was welcoming prospective students at the graduate school where he works in New York. […] Sulfur burps appear to be a somewhat rare side effect of semaglutide, tirzepatide, and other drugs in their class, known as GLP-1 receptor agonists.
sulfurverb/ˈsʌl.fə/
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To treat with sulfur, or a sulfur compound, especially to preserve or to counter agricultural pests.
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