Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To free from sulphur; remove the sulphur from (an ore, a mineral, etc.) by some suitable process: as, iron ores containing pyrites may be desulphurized by roasting; coke may be desulphurized by heating to redness in a current of steam.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To desulphurate; to deprive of sulphur.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Alternative spelling of
desulfurize .
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- verb remove sulfur from
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Examples
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It may be urged that it does not seem necessary to effect the desulphurization by means of the reaction of the manganese and iron sulphide outside of the blast furnace, as it is possible, by suitably directing the blast furnace, by the employment of manganiferous ores or highly basic slag, so to desulphurize the iron in the blast furnace itself that it would be unnecessary further to lower the percentage of sulphur.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891 Various
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