Word: sulfurous
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...biggest problem here and throughout the Rockies is acidic drainage. Gold-bearing rock tends to contain large quantities of sulfur, which form sulfuric acid when exposed to air and water. The acid puts such highly toxic metals as copper and cadmium into solution, and the poisons kill aquatic life. That happened before when Henderson was mined...
...afterlife that promised glory for those who had suffered for their souls. If he is right about that, and there is any justice in it, Koresh has not seen the last of the flames. And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever...
Hill helped clear up the confusion in the 1980s by carefully measuring the sulfur content of samples taken from the caverns. Her work proved that Carlsbad was carved not by carbonic acid but by sulfuric acid, produced by a reaction between oxygen dissolved in groundwater and hydrogen sulfide bubbling up from deep below the earth's surface. This highly toxic solution, which would have killed anyone present at the time, sculpted the many subterranean chambers at Carlsbad...
Even more to their astonishment, researchers discovered that biology played an important role in the rock-dissolving process. By poring over slices of limestone under microscopes, scientists found the fossil remains of primitive bacteria that had thrived in the once hostile environment. Using sulfur instead of sunlight as their source of energy, these organisms actually bolstered the acid's power to etch rock. Descendants of these strange microbes have recently been found and are being studied at Lechuguilla Cave, not far from Carlsbad...
...Freon; Bad Lieutenant is sulfur. Ferrara's fifth film, about a New York City police officer (Keitel again) caught in a toxic vortex of drugs, sex and gambling, has been rated NC-17. Two scenes are indelibly repellent. In one, a nun is raped in a church; in the other, the cop viciously and pathetically humiliates two teenagers with verbal sexual abuse. The movie, a lapsed Catholic's anguished prayer for last-minute salvation, says the cop is so addicted to sin he can't enjoy it. "Vampires are lucky," observes the cop's junkie girlfriend (co-screenwriter Zoe Lund...