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  • noun Plural form of sulfur.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sulfur.

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Examples

  • Mauclerc identified excesses of sulfurs and salts as the destructive elements of pigments, and insisted on the use of chemist's terminology in his recipes.

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • Watin claimed that, to support his statements, he obtained Mauclerc's special oils and colors purged of their salts and sulfurs, tested the techniques Mauclerc advocated, and brought the results to be verified by amateurs and chemists. reference From these experiments, Watin substantiated that Mauclerc knew very little about the substances of which he spoke.

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • Deterioration occurs when there are excesses of salts and sulfurs, dirts or other adulterants present on the painting. reference Tainted materials lead to the damage characteristic of modern paintings.

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • Without attention to these details, without the removal of the excess salts and sulfurs, paintings would deteriorate.

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • Watin repeatedly rejected Mauclerc's recommendations to clean or purge all materials before use to remove the salts and sulfurs that damage paintings.

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • It was not the materials inherent in a pigment — the dirts, sulfurs, and salts identified by Mauclerc — that damaged paintings.

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • It seems now wholly translated beyond the old furies and sulfurs of its region's past, famously hailed by its mayor even during the South's racial convulsions of the Fifties as 'the city too busy to hate.'

    An American Tragedy Frady, Marshall 2004

  • Engaged in animated conversation with an attractive middle-aged Asian woman, his match-strike of a grin sulfurs the soggy air.

    Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas Robbins, Tom 1994

  • The children spread the sulfurs upon a little table, and all the company gathered round it.

    Belinda 1801

  • This is perhaps why the orange barred sulfurs are called the acrobats of the butterfly world.

    naplesnews.com Stories 2010

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