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    Sulfur has been known since ancient times, mentioned 15 times in the Bible. It was mined in Sicily near Mount Etna and used to bleach cloth and preserve wine by burning it to form sulfur dioxide. For centuries, sulfur was believed to be a component of all metals in alchemy. Antoine Lavoisier established sulfur as an element in the late 18th century, though earlier Humphry Davy thought it contained hydrogen. Sulfur exists in several allotropes and is a nonmetallic solid with a pale yellow color that is odorless, tasteless, and insoluble in water.

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    Sulfur has been known since ancient times, mentioned 15 times in the Bible. It was mined in Sicily near Mount Etna and used to bleach cloth and preserve wine by burning it to form sulfur dioxide. For centuries, sulfur was believed to be a component of all metals in alchemy. Antoine Lavoisier established sulfur as an element in the late 18th century, though earlier Humphry Davy thought it contained hydrogen. Sulfur exists in several allotropes and is a nonmetallic solid with a pale yellow color that is odorless, tasteless, and insoluble in water.

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    Sulfur

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    Sulfur has been known since ancient times, mentioned 15 times in the Bible. It was mined in Sicily near Mount Etna and used to bleach cloth and preserve wine by burning it to form sulfur dioxide. For centuries, sulfur was believed to be a component of all metals in alchemy. Antoine Lavoisier established sulfur as an element in the late 18th century, though earlier Humphry Davy thought it contained hydrogen. Sulfur exists in several allotropes and is a nonmetallic solid with a pale yellow color that is odorless, tasteless, and insoluble in water.

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    SULFUR

    HISTORY
    DISCOVERER
    FACTS/TRIVIA
    Sulfur is mentioned 15 times in the Bible,
    Its name comes from the Sanskrit word
    and was best known for destroying
    "sulvere."
    Sodom and Gomorrah. It was also known
    One allotrope of sulfur was in used in
    to the ancient Greeks, and burnt as a
    China as long ago as the sixth century
    fumigant. Sulfur was mined near Mount
    BC.
    Etna in Sicily and used for bleaching
    Sulfur can serve as either an oxidant or as
    cloth and preserving wine, both of which
    a reducing agent.
    involved burning it to form sulfur
    Sulfur occurs naturally as an element but
    dioxide, and allowing this to be absorbed
    can also be found in a number of
    by wet clothes or the grape juice. For
    compounds and minerals.
    centuries, sulfur along with mercury and
    It is vital for living organisms.
    salt, was believed to be a component of all
    metals and formed the basis of alchemy
    whereby one metal could be transmuted
    Antoine Lavoisier
    into another.
    Antoine Lavoisier thought that sulfur was
    an element, but in 1808 Humphry Davy
    said it contained hydrogen. However, his
    sample was impure and when Louis-Josef PHYSICAL
    Gay-Lussac and Louis-Jacques Thénard
    proved it to be an element the following PROPERTIES
    year, Davy eventually agreed.
    ELEMENTAL
    Color-Pale yellow - Non-metallic
    Phase-Solid NUMBER
    Crystalline structure & Forms-Rhombic,
    Amorphous and Prismatic
    *Allotropic-There are several known
    allotropes including brimstone
    Odor-Odorless
    Taste-Tasteless
    ELEMENTAL
    LIFE Solubility-Insoluble in water
    Boiling point-The boiling point of sulfur is
    DIAGRAM
    444.6°C
    APPLICATION Conductivity-A poor conductor of heat and
    electricity
    Viscosity (resistance to flow - stickiness)-
     Fertilizer Upon melting, sulfur is converted into a
    mobile yellow liquid, which turns brown and
     Medicine becomes a viscous, dark brown mass at about
     Matches 190°C. The viscosity decreases above 190°C,
    and at 300°C sulfur again becomes a flowing
    liquid

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