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Facts about Sulfur
Physical Properties
Chemical Properties
Sulfur: A History
Modern Day Uses
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Sulfur is non-lustrous, brittle solid that isn't a good conductor of heat and electricity. These are all characteristics of this...
What is a non-metal?
100
Sulfur can either be a soft pale or a bright version of this distinct colour.
What is Yellow?
100
This is produced when sulfur burns.
What is sulfur dioxide?
100
This previous name of Sulfur was mentioned in Revelation chapter 20 of the Bible as a consequence to sin.
What is Brimstone?
100
Sulfur is used for these massive explosions of colour often shown at different celebrations.
What is Fireworks?
200
The symbol representing Sulfur.
What is S?
200
The approximate density of sulfur.
-3 What is about 2 g/cm
200
Sulfur burns in this kind of flame.
What is a Blue Flame?
200
The arabic word meaning "Yellow" is what Sulfur was derived from.
What is "Sufra"?
200
This is an antibiotic based naturally from sulfur.
What is Penicillin?
300
Sulfur is classified in this group along with Oxygen, Selenium, Tellurium and Polonium. They all share the same number of valence shells but they all react at different levels.
What is the Chalcogen Group or the oxygen group?
300
Sulfur is usually odorless but when combined with another element to make a sulfur compound, it releases an awful stench of a skunk and/or these Easter oriented snacks but rotten.
What is Eggs?
300
Sulfuric acid can burn through a lot of materials such as metal, plastic and this type of fabric we tend to wear a lot of.
What is Cotton?
300
Sulfur became a chemical element in 1789 by this well-known chemist
What is Antoine Lavoisier?
300
This is used as a bleaching agent and disinfect.
What is sulfur dioxide?
400
Sulfur has an atomic mass of about this.
What is 32?
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The number of electrons in the Valence shell.
What is 6?
400
Sulfur is soluble in carbon disulfide but insoluble in this chemical compound.
What is Water?
400
In the year of 808, this country provides text of the first ever, gun powder recipe, containing sulfur.
What is China?
400
Magnesium sulfate is also known as this kind of bath additive.
What is Epsom Salt?
500
Sulfur is in Category 3. Category is a synonym for this word.
What is a Period?
500
Molten lava assumes a dark red colour at this temperature.
What is 200 degrees?
500
To combine with other elements, sulfur needs to be heated up but some times can create poducts at this normal state.
What is room temperature?
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This German chemist said this about sulfur in 1843. “It is no exaggeration to say, we may fairly judge the commercial prosperity of a country from the amount of sulfuric acid it consumes. (Sulfur’s price affects the price of…) bleached and printed cotton stuffs, soap, glass, etc, and remembering that Great Britain supplies America, Spain, Portugal, and the East, with these, exchanging them for raw cotton, silk, wine, raisins, indigo, etc, we can understand why the English Government should have resolved to resort to war with Naples (in 1839) in order to abolish the sulfur monopoly, which the latter power attempted recently to establish.”
What is Justus Liebig?
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This sulfuric compound is used in the manufacture of adhesives, cellophane, animal feed, cement, explosives, glass, fumigants, matches, and inorganic chemicals.
What is sulfuric acid?