Alternative British spelling of desulfur; to remove sulfur from fuel or industrial materials.
From de- + sulphur (British spelling of sulfur). British variant of the American desulfur.
British chemists spelled it 'desulphur' while Americans used 'desulfur'—but both sides faced the same urgent problem when acid rain began destroying forests in the 1970s.
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