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Brimstone vs Magma - What's the difference?

brimstone | magma |

As nouns the difference between brimstone and magma

is that brimstone is sulphur while magma is magma.

brimstone

English

Noun

  • Sulphur.
  • The sulphur of Hell; Hell, damnation.
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  • (archaic) Used attributively as an intensifier in exclamations.
  • * 1852–3 , (Charles Dickens), (Bleak House)
  • You are a brimstone pig. You're a head of swine!
  • * 1852–3 , (Charles Dickens), (Bleak House)
  • You're a brimstone idiot.
  • The butterfly of the Pieridae family.
  • Derived terms

    * fire and brimstone

    Quotations

    (dates and formatting needed) * 'Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.' — Genesis, 19:24, King James Version * 'And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that {are} with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone .' — Ezekiel, 38:22 King James Version * 'For griefe thereof, and diuelish despight, / From his infernall fournace forth he threw / Huge flames, that dimmed all the heauens light, / Enrold in duskish smoke and brimstone blew.' — Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene * 'Till, as a signal giv'n, th' uplifted Spear / Of their great Sultan waving to direct / Thir course, in even ballance down they light / On the firm brimstone , and fill all the Plain; / A multitude.' — John Milton, Paradise Lost * 'Weel I wot I wad be broken if I were to gie sic weight to the folk that come to buy our pepper and brimstone , and suchlike sweetmeats.' — Walter Scott, The Antiquary * '[W]hen he [the Devil] is aweary of vice, and aweary of virtue, used up as to brimstone , and used up as to bliss [...]' — Charles Dickens,Hard Times * 'Don't think, young man, that we go to the expense of flower of brimstone and molasses, just to purify them.' — Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby * 'The brimstone , too, which burns there in such prodigious quantity fills all hell with its intolerable stench.' — James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man * 'But the sulphurous brimstone which burns in hell is a substance which is specially designed to burn for ever and for ever with unspeakable fury.' — James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man English intensifiers

    magma

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (geology) The molten matter within the earth, the source of the material of lava flows, dikes of eruptive rocks, etc.
  • (mathematics) A basic algebraic structure consisting of a set equipped with a single binary operation.
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