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Recent History of the Chemical Industry 1973 to the Millennium: The New Facts of World Chemicals Since 1973 Read chapter Read first chapter

2012 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

25. Sulfur and Sulfuric Acid

Authors : Gerard E. d’Aquin, Robert C. Fell

Published in: Handbook of Industrial Chemistry and Biotechnology

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Abstract

Sulfur is one of the few elements that is found in its elemental form in nature. Typical sulfur deposits occur in sedimentary limestone/gypsum formations, in limestone/anhydrite formations associated with salt domes or in volcanic rock [1]. A yellow solid at normal temperature, sulfur becomes progressively lighter in color at lower temperatures and is almost white at the temperature of liquid air. It melts at 114–119°C (depending on crystalline form) to a yellow liquid which turns orange as the temperature is increased. The low viscosity of the liquid begins to rise sharply above 160°C, peaking at 93 Pas at 188°C, and then falling as the temperature continues to rise to its boiling point of 445°C. This and other anomalous properties of the liquid state are due to equilibria between the various molecular species of sulfur which includes small chains and rings.

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Metadata
Title
Sulfur and Sulfuric Acid
Authors
Gerard E. d’Aquin
Robert C. Fell
Copyright Year
2012
Publisher
Springer US
Book
Handbook of Industrial Chemistry and Biotechnology

Print ISBN: 978-1-4614-4258-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-4614-4259-2

Copyright Year: 2012

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4259-2_25