(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.
Sulphur
Definition:
(n.) A nonmetallic element occurring naturally in large quantities, either combined as in the sulphides (as pyrites) and sulphates (as gypsum), or native in volcanic regions, in vast beds mixed with gypsum and various earthy materials, from which it is melted out. Symbol S. Atomic weight 32. The specific gravity of ordinary octohedral sulphur is 2.05; of prismatic sulphur, 1.96.
(n.) Any one of numerous species of yellow or orange butterflies of the subfamily Pierinae; as, the clouded sulphur (Eurymus, / Colias, philodice), which is the common yellow butterfly of the Eastern United States.
Example Sentences:
(1) That suggests they are being replenished by sulphur dioxide, most probably from volcanoes.
(2) Sulphuric acid fluorescence is used for quantitation and specificity is achieved by the addition of tritiated oestrone to the urine hydrolysate.
(3) Liver scintigraphy with 67-Ga citrate and alphafetoprotein (afp) determinations in the serum were carried out in 84 patients with liver mass lesions in the preceding sulphur colloid scans.
(4) The use of sulphur-containing amino acids and 2-deoxyglucose in growth media led to impaired cell wall synthesis and rendered cells very susceptible to treatment with mercapto-ethanol and various lytic enzymes.
(5) The molecular mass (5988 Da) of the native rubredoxin has been measured by electrospray-ionization m.s., thus establishing the applicability of the technique to this type of iron-sulphur protein.
(6) Attention is drawn to the shortcomings in our current knowledge of the scale of turnover of the sulphur cycle and of our understanding of the microorganisms involved in specialized environments.
(7) N-Methylformamide extracts of acid-treated precipitated VFe protein of the V-nitrogenase of Azotobacter chroococcum are yellow-brown in colour and contain vanadium, iron and acid-labile sulphur in the approximate proportions 1:6:5.
(8) Here we show that a farnesyl moiety is attached to a sulphur atom of the C-terminal cysteine of T gamma-2 (active form), a part of which is additionally methyl-esterified at the alpha-carboxyl group.
(9) Erabutoxin a was partially hydrolysed with enzymes and sulphuric acid and the resulting peptides were separated from each other by column chromatography and paper electrophoresis.
(10) NADH:ubiquinone reductase, the respiratory chain complex I of mitochondria, consists of some 25 nuclear-encoded and seven mitochondrially encoded subunits, and contains as redox groups one FMN, probably one internal ubiquinone and at least four iron-sulphur clusters.
(11) Bacteria of the genus Thiobacillus can obtain energy from the chemolithotrophic oxidation of inorganic sulphur and its compounds (sulphide, thiosulphate and polythionates) and use this energy to support autotrophic growth on carbon dioxide.
(12) Bacteriophage mu2 is inactivated by both mono- and di-functional sulphur mustards at relatively low extents of alkylation.
(13) The study of amino acid pattern shows that sulphur containing amino acids are limiting to almost the same degree in meat and meat soy blend.
(14) In a case in which ovarian biopsy at laparotomy revealed typical actinomycotic "sulphur granules" and Actinomyces israelii was diagnosed, standard Actinomyces israelii cytoplasmic antigens and circulating C1-binding immune complexes were found in the patient's serum when it was tested by counterimmunoelectrophoresis.
(15) Experiments were performed in a cylinder full of beads open at one end and closed at the other in which a mixture of oxygen with helium or argon or sulphur hexafluoride could diffuse with ambient air through the open end.
(16) The results obtained indicated that both the sulphydration and trans-sulphuration pathways were operating.
(17) This effect may add to other factors decreasing sulphur availability in critically ill patients, and simultaneous administration of thiosulphate is therefore recommended to ensure a safe SNP treatment during and after coronary bypass operations.
(18) (4) There is no specific therapy for poisoning by sulphur mustard.
(19) Among various acetylated proteins, proteins insoluble in 0.1m-sulphuric acid have the highest radioactivity.
(20) Desulfovibrio africanus ferredoxin III is a monomeric protein (Mr 6585) containing seven cysteine residues and 7-8 iron atoms and 6-8 atoms of acid-labile sulphur.