1.   Another threat to the family silverware is posed by common rubber bands, which are vulcanized with sulfur compounds.

2.   Army engineers focused on ground water laced with sulfates, which are sulfur compounds naturally occurring in some soils.

3.   As some anaerobic bacteria metabolize a meal, they release copious amounts of sulfur compounds as waste.

4.   BreathAlert, from the Japanese health-products company Tanita, works by measuring, among other things, the amount of volatile sulfur compounds given off by bacteria.

5.   But gas water had been found to be rich in ammonia, and leftover sulfur compound would be used in the manufacture of sulfuric acid.

6.   It contains a unique sulfur compound, allyl methyl sulfide.

7.   It does, however, react with sulfur or sulfur compounds, like hydrogen sulfide in the air, forming tarnish, a compound that is chiefly silver sulfide.

8.   It said the odor was caused by the mixture of the de-icer runoff with sulfur compounds underground.

9.   Manufactured by Interscan Corp. of Chatsworth, it monitors volatile sulfur compounds, the principal cause of chronic halitosis produced by bacteria in the mouth.

10.   The only problem is that some of the cancer-fighting chemicals found in the sulfur compounds also were bred out.