16

S

Sulfur
32.065 (5)
 Historical Information

Sulphur was known in ancient times and referred to in Genesis as brimstone. Assyrian texts dated around 700-600 BC refer to it as the "product of the riverside", where deposits could be found. In the 9th century BC, Homer mentioned "pest-averting sulphur". In 424 BC, the tribe of Bootier destroyed a city's walls using a burning mixture of coal, sulphur, and tar.
Basic Information Shells
  • Name:Sulfur
  • Symbol: S
  • Atomic number: 14
  • Atomic weight:32.065 (5)
  • Standard state: solid at 298 K
  • Group in periodic table: 16
  • Group name: Chalcogen
  • Period in periodic table: 3
  • Block in periodic table: p-block
  • Classification: Non-metallic
 sulfur
Uses Trivia
  • Sulphur is a component of black gunpowder
  • Sulphur compounds are used in the bleaching of dried fruits and for paper products.

Sulphur is found in meteorites, volcanoes, hot springs, and as galena, gypsum, Epsom salts, and barite. It is recovered commercially from "salt domes" along the Gulf Coast of the USA.