sulfur burning
1Sulfur cycle — Sulfur is one of the constituents of many proteins, vitamins and hormones. It recycles as in other biogeochemical cycles.The essential steps of the sulfur cycle are: * Mineralization of organic sulfur to the inorganic form, hydrogen sulfide:… …
2Sulfur — This article is about the chemical element. For other uses, see Sulfur (disambiguation). phosphorus ← sulfur → chlorine …
3sulfur — /sul feuhr/, n. 1. Also, esp. Brit., sulphur. Chem. a nonmetallic element that exists in several forms, the ordinary one being a yellow rhombic crystalline solid, and that burns with a blue flame and a suffocating odor: used esp. in making… …
4sulfur oxide — ▪ chemical compound any of several compounds of sulfur and oxygen, the most important of which are sulfur dioxide (SO2) and sulfur trioxide (SO3), both of which are manufactured in huge quantities in intermediate steps of sulfuric acid… …
5Sulfur dioxide — Chembox new Name = Sulphur dioxide ImageFileL1 = Sulfur dioxide 2D.svg ImageSizeL1 = 120 ImageFileR1 = Sulfur dioxide 3D vdW.png OtherNames = sulfur(IV) oxide; sulfurous anhydride Section1 = Chembox Identifiers CASNo = CASRN|7|4|4|6|0|9|5… …
6Sulfur trioxide — Chembox new Name = Sulfur trioxide ImageFileL1 = Sulfur trioxide 2D.svg ImageSizeL1 = 120px ImageFileR1 = Sulfur trioxide 3D vdW.png ImageSizeR1 = 120px ImageName = Sulfur trioxide OtherNames = Sulfuric anhydride Sulfan Sulphur trioxide Sulfur… …
7sulfur dioxide — noun A toxic gas, of molecular formula SO that is found in the emissions of volcanos and those of burning coal or petroleum; dissolves in water to form sulfurous acid and, in the presence of oxygen, sulfuric acid, and is thus responsible for …
8Allotropes of sulfur — There are a large number of allotropes of sulfur. In this respect, sulfur is second only to carbon.[1] The most common form found in nature is yellow orthorhombic α sulfur, which contains puckered rings of S8.[1] Chemistry students may have seen… …
9oxygen burning — noun the nucleosynthesis process, subsequent to carbon burning, in which neon disintegrates to oxygen which subsequently fuses to form silicon, phosphorus sulfur and other elements of atomic number up to …
10contact process — Chem. a catalytic method for producing sulfuric acid from sulfur dioxide and oxygen. [1900 05] * * * ▪ chemistry modern industrial method of producing sulfuric acid; (sulfuric acid) it has largely replaced the chamber, or lead chamber,… …
