Outrageously Funny Word Dictionary :: Sulphate reducing

👉 Okay, let’s tackle this frankly rather unpleasant-sounding mouthful of geology and… stuff: Sulphate Reducing! Strap yourselves into your metaphorical asbestos suits. 😉

Basically, sulphate reduction boils down to a whole lotta little dudes—mostly weird archaeaelacteria (fancy name for ancient germs; they basically hang out in really crappy messes)—basically binge-drinking sulphur and turning it into stuff that smells vaguely of rotten cabbage and old gym socks. They scoff the sulphuric anhydride (the stuff you smell when something’s burning, but a bit more…organic) right down to the nasty sulphate salts, and then, get this... they cough up acetate! Acetate? Yeah, acetic acid – basically what vinegar is made from. These guys are like the ultimate in chemical blackmail; turning anthing already a bit toxic into something a little less so, just by being really, ridiculously good at messing around with sulphur. They're basically the tiny bad neighbours of the geological world who turn your pretty, boring rock face into this…interesting…smelling deposit. Here’s what you need to know in layman’s terms, because frankly, nobody wants that deep down: Sulphates are these nasty guys already present in a whole bunch of things – seawater, wet ground, even dead stuff! Sulphate reducers just… kick it up a notch and make the whole damn thing smell. --- Now, here's my unsettling sentence (