Sweet crude has sulfur contents of 0.5 percent or less by weight, while sour crude, according to most scales, has sulfur contents of 1 percent or more by weight. Some petroleum companies, however, classify sour crudes as any crude oil with sulfur contents in excess of 0.5 percent by weight.
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