Brimstone vs Crystalline - What's the difference?
brimstone | crystalline |
Sulphur.
The sulphur of Hell; Hell, damnation.
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, title= (archaic) Used attributively as an intensifier in exclamations.
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The butterfly of the Pieridae family.
of, relating to, or composed of crystals
(chemistry) having a regular three-dimensional molecular structure
resembling crystal in being clear and transparent
As nouns the difference between brimstone and crystalline
is that brimstone is sulphur while crystalline is (obsolete) any crystalline substance.As an adjective crystalline is
of, relating to, or composed of crystals.brimstone
English
Noun
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.}}
- You are a brimstone pig. You're a head of swine!
- You're a brimstone idiot.