Sulfur fumes

Because of the toxicity associated with lead compounds, governmental rulings have severely limited the use of lead drier in coatings. From a performance viewpoint the use of lead in aluminum paint will destroy the leafing characteristics of the film. Coatings containing lead that are exposed to sulfur fumes will discolor. 

Carved wooden bears in all shapes and sizes overwhelmed Yngve and me at our visit to Noboribetsu in 1976. There was an afternoon to spare before the opening of the "Oji International Seminar on Theories and Ab Initio Computations of Molecular Electronic Structure" at Tomakomai, Hokkaido in the fall of 1976 so we wished to experience the hot springs. The train left us with a choice of buses, the desdnations of which were clearly indicated in Japanese writing. We found the right one and came to a city in a canyon where the sulfur fumes and hot water let themselves out. The kind reception by Kimio Ohno and Fukashi Sasaki at Hokkaido University remains a vivid memory. 

The Abbe Lazaro Spallanzani (1729-1799) described the sulfurous fumes of Vulcano, and added that Above these fumes there is a plain, of no great extent, which one is at first afraid to venture on, from the subterranean noise heard there, and from the shaking of the ground when struck with the foot.. . . On this plain it was that formerly stood the furnaces in which the sulphur of Vulcano was purified. But this useful labour has long since been abandoned. . . nor was it abandoned because the quantity of sulphur obtained was too little. . ., as the vein is very rich and even inexhaustible. The real cause why the inhabitants of Lipari no longer continued this work was that the ground. . . grows hotter the deeper it is dug into. . ., to which is to be added the offensive stench of the sulphureous fumes. . . (75). 

Matches 1.5.2.1,2.3,6.1. Demos. 1.2. 1.5.4.1 Can cause bums. Inhaling sulfur fumes can cause throat and lung irritation. Blow out quickly. Use with good ventilation. 

Nearer at hand Curtis LeMay could see the intensity and ferocity of Japanese resistance increasing as American forces fought their way toward the home islands. The latest hellhole was Iwo Jima—Sulfur Island—a mass of volcanic ash and rock only seven square miles in area with a dormant volcano at one end. Mount Suribachi, that had risen from the sea within historic times. Miasmic with sulfur fumes, a steam of rotten eggs, Iwo lacked fresh water but supported two airfields from which Japanese... 

In the nineteenth century, Admiral Lord Dundonald of the British Navy concocted a plan involving the use of sulfur fumes during the Crimean War (1853-56). At about the same time, Sir Lyon Playfair proposed the use of cyanide in artillery shells to be fired on Sebastopol. The British War OflSce as well as the British Admiralty were adamantly opposed to these ideas, rejecting them as being against the rules of warfare. In rebuttal, Playfair wrote ... 

Cadmium Red n Pigment Red 108 (77202). Pigments of Calcined coprecipitations of compounds of cadmium, sulfur, and selenium a brilliant red pigment, opaque, with good staining power, fast to light, unaffected by exposure to sulfur fumes considerable resistance to heat. Density, 4.9 g/cm (41 Ib/gal) O.A., 20 lb/100 lb. 

Silver plating should be protected from sulfurous fumes on storage and it should be cleaned immediately prior to soldering. 

Features Safe replacement for sodium hydrosulfite which will not catch fire if exposed to moisture and does not generate sulfurous fumes in use Arolterge 100M [Arol Chem. Prods.)... 

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