(a.) Made of, or pertaining to, brimstone; as, brimstone matches.
Example Sentences:
(1) The RAF Tornados, based in Britain’s base at Akrotiri in Cyprus, can fire radar-guided anti-armour Brimstone missiles, which are conservatively estimated to cost £100,000 each; heavier Paveway IV bombs, estimated at £30,000 apiece; and long-range Storm Shadow missiles, estimated at nearly £790,000 each.
(2) All of the white butterflies declined, as did garden favourites such as the holly blue and brimstone.
(3) Can we talk about Brimstone and Treacle, the vision of a devil ... Ah, Brimstone and Treacle was ... Can I break off for a second?
(4) Until junior doctors went on all-out strike a fortnight ago, the health secretary Jeremy Hunt was all fire and brimstone, flatly refusing to negotiate with a “blackmailing” union .
(5) He insisted the UK’s high precision Brimstone missile was needed by the UK’s allies over Syria since it reduces civilian casualties.
(6) As part of the highest number of combined strikes on Libya since Nato took command of the military operation on 31 March, the Tornados fired Brimstone anti-tank missiles and Paveway IV bombs, described by defence officials as precision weapons with an accuracy of a few metres.
(7) On 31 January, Tornados and Reapers were described as having attacked Isis vehicles and “a group of terrorists” with an unknown number of Paveway IV bombs, and Brimstone and Hellfire missiles.
(8) A god of absence, of null, of nothingness – a god with no specific given name: somehow this seems more frightening than all the angry thunderbolt-throwers and purveyors of fire-and-brimstone put together.
(9) Brimstone missiles, developed at a cost of £850m to replace cluster bombs used in Iraq, were first fired from RAF Harrier jets in Afghanistan.
(10) But now, listen to the fire, brimstone and old-time religion that pours forth from Yvette Cooper and Andy Burnham – rather more, tonally at least, than Jeremy Corbyn, who sticks to his measured, slightly stilted kind of oratory, but manages to come up with applause-line after applause-line.
(11) Stories of brimstone, fire and gods make good tales and do a decent job of stirring up the requisite fear and jeopardy.
(12) • Facebook page Gonzo Falafel and Hummus According to Karen Brooks: "Gonzo's owner, Tal Caspi, considers every element: from scratch-cooked garbanzos to crisp fries teetering on top, though I'm more a sucker for his Shawarma fries, a beautiful mess of curry-clad chicken, thick-cut fries, hummus, tahini and a condiment hotter than brimstone fire."
(13) We have evolved to wear crucifixes on necklaces without feeling the crushing weight of potential divine wrath and brimstone.
(14) The Guardian view on the Syria debate: crossing the watershed | Editorial Read more All he did know was our Brimstone missiles were programmed to target only people carrying Isis passports and doing something was better than doing nothing.
(15) The plan is for the Protector to be armed with UK-made Brimstone 2 missiles and Paveway IV laser-guided bombs.
(16) Brimstone missiles are conservatively estimated to cost £100,000 each, Paveway IV bombs £30,000 apiece, and Hellfire missiles £71,300 each.
(17) Thus culture secretary Maria Miller , doing her fire-and-brimstone bit if the press didn't sign up her regulatory royal charter, now says that the newspapers' own Independent Press Standards Organisation must be allowed to get up and running so she can see if it's a worthy successor to the Press Complaints Commission.
(18) Madhuku went first, wearing a blazer and striped shirt, clapping his hands and speaking with fire and brimstone.
(19) #Rapture" In Australia, Jon Gall of Melbourne was unimpressed by the lack of fire and brimstone.
(20) Tornados have dropped at least 87 Paveway IV bombs and fired at least 47 Brimstone missiles.
Sulfur
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Manometric studies with resting cells obtained by growth on each of these sulfur sources yielded net oxygen uptake for all substrates except sulfite and dithionate.
(2) Typically the iron-iron axis (gz) of the binuclear iron-sulfur clusters is in the membrane plane.
(3) Our study suggests that a major part of the renal antimineralocorticoid activity of spironolactone may be attributable to minor sulfur-containing metabolites or their precursors having a high renal clearance that affords access to their site of activity via the renal tubular fluid.
(4) Ferredoxin reductase (Fd-reductase) supplies reducing equivalents obtained from NADPH to mitochondrial cytochrome P450 enzymes via the small iron-sulfur protein ferredoxin.
(5) The loss of enzyme activity in sulfur-rhodanese does not involve cysteinyl residues but can be correlated with the modification of guanidino groups, notably that of Arg-186, the side chain of which may play a role in substrate binding.
(6) In two patients with extensive marrow necrosis, the diagnosis of marrow necrosis was established by morphologic and radioisotopic studies, and the extent of involvement was accurately assessed by marrow scanning with technetium Tc 99m sulfur colloid while the patients were still alive.
(7) It was presumed that thymohydroquinone is excreted as ethereal sulfuric acid conjugate in man.
(8) Also purple sulfur bacteria lowered BOD levels as demonstrated by the growth of T. floridana in sterilized sewage.
(9) An equivalent maximum growth response of rats fed L-methionine or N-acetyl-L-methionine was obtained when the total dietary sulfur amino acids compromised 0.36-0.41% of the diet.
(10) Histopathological evaluations showed that sulfuric acid particles alone did not cause inflammatory responses in centriacinar units of rat lung parenchyma (expressed in terms of percent lesion area) but did cause significant damage (cell killing followed by a wave of cell replication) in nasal respiratory epithelium, as measured by uptake of tritiated thymidine in the DNA of replicating cells.
(11) Ac-MPS of the hyaluronic acid type prevail in the ground substance of the myxoid and fibroblastic mesenchyma, while the substances containing sulfuric groups predominate in the tissue matrix exhibiting fibrogenic tendencies.
(12) Previous work demonstrated a differential decrease in iron-sulfur centers A, B and X which indicated that center X serves as a branch point for parallel electron flow through centers A and B (Golbeck, J.H.
(13) Our observation leads to the suggestion that, in vivo, either rhodanese is maintained in its more stable sulfur-substituted form or cellular compartmentalization prevents inactivation by nitrite.
(14) In contrast, the (Rp)-isomers, which have an equatorial exocyclic sulfur atom, bound to the enzyme without stimulation of its activity.
(15) A strong shoulder was observed at 2481.7 eV on the low-energy side of the sulfate absorption edge, deriving from a novel type of sulfur having a slightly lower oxidation state than sulfate sulfur.
(16) Long-term treatment with furosemide (up to 13 months) caused transient changes in the elemental content of the pancreatic acinar cells: a decrease in chloride and sulfur, and an increase in phosphorus, potassium and magnesium.
(17) The iron-sulfur proteins of the green photosynthetic bacterium Chlorobium have been characterized by oxidation-reduction potentiometry in conjunction with low-temperature electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy.
(18) The reaction is based on the reduction of sulfur dioxide at a dropping mercury electrode.
(19) Proton induced X-ray emission (PIXE) analyses were performed on single hair fibers in triplicate from 103 individuals in order to determine sulfur, zinc, calcium, and chlorine content.
(20) In a survey of the proteins from human hair, a genetic electrophoretic variant has been observed in the high-sulfur protein region.