Popular Terms. 1. Shop floor or facility where actual physical work (such as machining) is performed. 2. Training class or seminar in which the participants work individually and/or in groups to solve actual work related tasks to gain hands-on experience.
Sulphur (sulfur) is a pale yellow, odourless, brittle solid, which is insoluble in water but soluble in carbon disulphide. Sulphur is essential to life.It is a minor constituent of fats, body fluids, and skeletal minerals. The spelling of sulphur is sulfur in the USA while sulphur is common elsewhere.IUPAC has does not have jurisdiction over language but has decided sulfur is preferred. Sulphur is found in meteorites, volcanoes, hot springs, and as galena, gypsum, Epsom salts, and barite.ulphur (sulfur) is a pale yellow, odourless, brittle solid, which is insoluble in water but soluble in carbon disulphide. Sulphur is essential to life.
Elemental sulfur occurs naturally as the element (native sulfur), but most commonly occurs in combined forms as sulfide and sulfate minerals. Being abundant in native form, sulfur was known in ancient times, being mentioned for its uses in ancient India, ancient Greece, China, and Egypt.ther uses for the element are in matches, insecticides and fungicides. Many sulfur compounds are odoriferous, and the smell of odorized natural gas, skunk scent, grapefruit, and garlic is due to organosulfur compounds. Hydrogen sulfide imparts the characteristic odor to rotting eggs and other biological processes.