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And then, as to the process: according to theory, 100 pounds weight of sulphur ought to produce 306 pounds of sulphuric acid; in practice 300 pounds are actually obtained; the amount of loss is therefore too insignificant for consideration. Again; saltpetre being indispensable in making sulphuric acid, the commercial value of that salt had formerly an important influence upon its price.
What," continued the liberal-minded sovereign, turning to one of his attending nobles, "what was it that happened to Ning-lo who failed to satisfy the lottery ticket holders in somewhat similar circumstances?" "The scorpion vat, Serenest," replied the vassal. "Ah," commented the Enlightened One, "for the moment we thought it was the burning sulphur plaster."
Arriving in Paris, General Toombs succeeded in selling one of his plantations, realizing about five dollars an acre for it. He used to explain to the astounded Frenchmen, during his residence abroad, that he ate an acre of dirt a day. General Toombs repaired to Enghien, where he took a course of sulphur baths for the benefit of his throat.
She left us riotous in her wake, and we continued our journey dancing our indignation on the uneasy deck of the Lizzie. The silent drift recommenced, and we neared a region of unearthly lights and the smell of sulphur, where aerial skeletons, vast and black, and columns and towers, alternately glowed and vanished as the doors of infernal fires were opened and shut.
The reason is that the combustible state is natural for sulphur, but not for phosphorus, the latter's natural state being the oxidized one. For what matters here is just how the particular substance behaves at that level of temperature on which the earth unfolds her normal planetary activity.
Between the wooden pillars of the stoep dangled curtains yet other, of chopped, dyed, and threaded bamboo, while whitewashed drain-pipes, packed with earth and set on end, overflowed with Indian cress, flowering now in extravagant, gorgeous hues of red and brown, sulphur and orange.
The vulcanization of thin articles from one twenty-fifth to one-sixteenth inch thick, is done by Parkes' patented process, that is, dipping it in carbon disulphide for a short time, to which chloride or bromide of sulphur has been added, and when the solvent has evaporated the sulphur remains behind.
A lazy set of thieves you are, every one of you; spending your time inventing lies, devil a more nor less; and here," this time he filled again, "and here's a hot corner and Kilkenny coals, that's half sulphur, to the villain "
Some are fresh, with waters like crystal others brackish and muddy while many of them are more salt than the ocean itself. In this Desert there are springs springs of soda and sulphur, and salt waters; and others so hot that they boil up as in a great caldron, and you could not dip your finger into them without scalding it.
A fire caused by the carelessness of one of his party destroyed the whole, to the great indignation of the Indians. "Captain Belcher, of the British ship Sulphur, who visited the river in 1839, remarks: 'In the year 1836 the small-pox made great ravages, and it was followed a few years since by the ague.
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