16 Facts About Sulfur

Sulfur is a chemical element with the symbol S and atomic number 16.

Sulfur is the tenth most abundant element by mass in the universe and the fifth most on Earth.

Sulfur is an essential element for all life, but almost always in the form of organosulfur compounds or metal sulfides.

Sulfur is one of the core chemical elements needed for biochemical functioning and is an elemental macronutrient for all living organisms.

Sulfur is insoluble in water but soluble in carbon disulfide and, to a lesser extent, in other nonpolar organic solvents, such as benzene and toluene.

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Sulfur reacts with nearly all other elements with the exception of the noble gases, even with the notoriously unreactive metal iridium.

Sulfur was used for fumigation in preclassical Greece; this is mentioned in the Odyssey.

Sulfur appears in a column of fixed alkali in a chemical table of 1718.

Sulfur is derived from the Latin word, which was Hellenized to in the erroneous belief that the Latin word came from Greek.

Sulfur is produced as a side product of other industrial processes such as in oil refining, in which sulfur is undesired.

Sulfur is still mined from surface deposits in poorer nations with volcanoes, such as Indonesia, and worker conditions have not improved much since Booker T Washington's days.

Sulfur reacts directly with methane to give carbon disulfide, which is used to manufacture cellophane and rayon.

Sulfur improves the efficiency of other essential plant nutrients, particularly nitrogen and phosphorus.

Sulfur deficiency has become widespread in many countries in Europe.

Sulfur is used in pharmaceutical skin preparations for the treatment of acne and other conditions.

Sulfur is absorbed by plants roots from soil as sulfate and transported as a phosphate ester.