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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 See also:

SULPHUR

sulphur (q.v.), particularly of the commercial " See also:

roll sulphur." The word means literally " burning See also:

stone "; the first See also:

PART

part being formed from the See also:

STEM (O. Eng. staefn, stemn, cf. Du. stain, Ger. Stamm, &c., probably related to " staff ")

stem of the See also:

MID

Mid . Eng. brennen, to See also:

BURN, RICHARD (1709-1785)

burn . Earlier forms of the word are brenstone, bernstone, brynstone, &c .

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