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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 See also:

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

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