Periodic Table · element
Sulfur
S · Z 16
- atomic number
- 16
- atomic mass
- 32.06
- notation
- S
- group
- 16: Oxygen
- period
- 3
- state0c
- Solid
- state20c
- Solid
- occurrence
- Primordial
- density
- 2.07
- melting pt
- 115.2
- boiling pt
- 444.6
- discovered
- -2000
- abundance
- 350
- bio class
- Bulk
- bio role
- In cysteine and methionine; the disulfide bridges between cysteines hold protein shapes together.
- ore minerals
- recovered from sour gas and oil; pyrite; native sulfur (historic Frasch)
- mined as
- By-product
extraction
Hardly mined any more. Almost all sulfur is recovered from hydrogen sulfide stripped out of natural gas and oil, converted to elemental sulfur in the Claus process. The Frasch mines that melted native sulfur out of salt domes with superheated water are gone.
categories
#Nonmetal#Polyatomic nonmetal#Chalcogens
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