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BRIMSTONE

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 571 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BRIMSTONE  , the popular name of

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sulphur (q.v.), particularly of the commercial "
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roll sulphur." The word means literally " burning
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stone "; the first
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part being formed from the
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stem of the
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Mid . Eng. brennen, to
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burn . Earlier forms of the word are brenstone, bernstone, brynstone, &c .

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