Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To treat or impregnate with sulfur; sulfuret.
- transitive verb To bleach or fumigate with sulfur or sulfur dioxide.
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- verb to treat or react with
sulfur or withsulfur dioxide
Etymologies
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sulfur + -ize
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Examples
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The industry spent, for example, $80 billion in the last 10 years on environment improvements to provide the world's cleanest fuels to de-sulfurize diesel gasoline and other things, and all of that money, basically, is used to get technology to provide cleaner fuel but not increase capacity.
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The waste heat alone from nuclear power is sufficient to be used to strip hydrogen from oil, without generating any CO2 (petrochemical plants produce a lot of hydrogen now, which they use internally to de-sulfurize gasoline.
New Energy Legislation, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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