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Sulphur city (1990 pop. 20,125), Calcasieu parish, SW La.; inc. 1914. It is a trade center for an area producing natural gas, oil, and timber as well as sorghum, soybeans, cattle, and crawfish. Industry centers chiefly around petroleum products, chemicals, and related enterprises. Engines, concrete products, machinery, and lumber are also manufactured. The city was named for a sulfur dome that was mined from 1894 to 1924. In 1924 oil was discovered nearby.

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Â© The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology 1996, originally published by Oxford University Press 1996. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

sulphur, U.S. sulfur greenish-yellow nonmetallic element; brimstone. XIV. ME. soufre, solfre, sulph(e)re — AN. sulf(e)re, (O)F. soufre :- L. sulfur, -phur. Comb. form sulpho-, before a vowel sulph-.
So sulphate/sulphite salt of sulphuric/sulphurous acid. XVIII. — F. sulphat/sulphite. sulphureous pert. to sulphur XVI; †hellish, satanic XVII. f. L. sulphureus. sulphuretted combined chemically with sulphur. XIX. f. sulphuret- modL. sulphuretum; see -URET. sulphuric s. acid XVIII. — F. sulfurique. Hence sulphide compound of sulphur with another element. XIX. sulphurous, sulphury (-Y1) XVI. See -Y1.

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sulphur (sulfur) An element that is part of the amino acids cystine and methionine and is therefore present in all proteins. It is also part of the molecules of vitamin B₁ and biotin and occurs in foods and in the body as sulphates. Apart from these amino acids and vitamins, there appears to be no requirement for sulphur in any other form and no deficiency has ever been observed, although it is essential for plants.

Not only was the old‐fashioned remedy of sulphur and molasses (brimstone and treacle) quite unnecessary, but elemental sulphur is not used by the body.

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