The concentrated acid is, however, corrosive to the skin.

Under these corrosive conditions, iron hydroxide species are formed.

Sulphur is a chemical element with the symbol S.

Not all prisons succumb to these corrosive and polarizing dynamics.

Such rent creating corruption is quite expensive and corrosive of growth.

In more corrosive environments (such as salt water), cadmium plating is preferred.

Some 400 porters carry sulphur baskets on their shoulders from the crater.

A nasty, unintended side effect of globalization is its corrosive effect on democracy.

The oldest of his five children, 30 years old, also works carrying sulphur.

The Kawah Ijen miners are paid 5 euro cents for each kilo of sulphur removed.

Noting the corrosive effect that corruption has on democracy, development, the rule of law and economic activity,

Better Governance African governments often boast when they simply stop the corrosive effects of corruption and irrational business regulation.

The real peril is to be found at home the corrosive effect of the Palestinian problem on Israel s international standing.

For four euros, the Indonesian volcano porters risk life and limb carrying 70 kilos of sulphur along steep stone paths.

At the end of summer, the only chemical products that should be used are copper sulphate, colloidal sulphur, and insecticidal soap.

Spillover effects are inevitable, and once a corrosive increase in inflationary expectations sets in, it becomes all the more painful to unwind.

Schools have the power to be little more than enclaves from the corrosive strength of social influences on how the mind works.

In early 2008, Human Rights Watch published a 76 page report, titled Choking on Bureaucracy , documenting the corrosive impact of 18 FZ.

After a day of wandering around the city, the Abanotubani sulphur baths are perfect for relaxation and for being pampered like royalty.

Then a distillery was added to the plant, injecting the water with highly corrosive substances, capable of raising the soil s acidity level and damaging crops.

The targets apply to the four greenhouse gases carbon dioxide (), methane (), nitrous oxide (), sulphur hexafluoride (), and two groups of gases, hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) and perfluorocarbons (PFCs).

While corrosive immobility is a trademark of the Syrian regime, these challenges threaten to reinforce each other and marginalize Syria internationally even more so than today.

Indian children inhale large doses of sulphur and potassium chlorate to fashion flammable powder into matches. Youthful glassmakers in Brazil breathe toxic silicone and arsenic fumes.

In the long run, of course, both types of corruption are corrosive of the respect and trust that good governance requires, which can undermine economic performance in its own right.

This is the case of Anto Wijaya, one of the 400 miners who make their living taking sulphur from the Kawah Ijen volcano, east of the Indonesian island of Java.

After breaking off large sulphur rocks, which in total can weigh up to 70 kilos, he carries them in two bamboo baskets on his shoulders along the steep stone paths.

This is PT Ngrimbi Candi, a company which, since 1960, has been exploiting the volcano, and quite literally its workers, whom it pays 662 rupees (5 euro cents) per kilo of sulphur.

A lot of thermal baths smell of sulphur. The Árpád baths in Békescsaba, Hungary, smell so strongly of oil you may find it difficult to believe you are in a health spa.

Despite their huge profits, the mining company has not mechanised the sulphur extraction process to save costs, nor has it provided any equipment for the porters, who work for themselves and by the kilo.

Many types of natural capital, however, have not been included fresh water, soil, forests as providers of ecosystem services, and the atmosphere as a sink for such pollution as particulates and nitrogen and sulphur oxides.

A fervent opponent of Australia s carbon price, and a battle hardened opponent of US President Barack Obama, Murdoch lauded the virtues of austerity and minimal regulation, and railed against the corrosive effects of social safety nets.

Every day, he and his fellow workers break off 15 tonnes of sulphur from the volcano, which three lorries move to the warehouse in Tamansari, 18 kilometres away along a goat path that passes through scrubland.

It then sells the sulphur for 10,000 rupees (83 cents) to the petrochemical industry, as the mineral is widely used in everyday life and is used in the manufacture of matches, fireworks, cosmetics, dynamite and even for whitening sugar.

Sharing a filthy wooden hut with other porters, he gets up every day at two in the morning because the sulphur doesn't stop flowing at night, when its characteristic yellow colour turns blue and it glows in the dark.

At 27 years old, Anto has been risking his life for three years in the Kawah Ijen volcano, and the sulphur has already begun to take its toll on him, even though he covers his face with special mask and goggles.

Neither local democracy nor small societies, neither governmental checks and balances nor civil rights, can prevent the decline of critical thought that democracy seems to cause. Schools have the power to be little more than enclaves from the corrosive strength of social influences on how the mind works.