16	Hold your nose, it's sulfur! By Eli 8th grade Mill Valley Middle School
Atomic Info Sources Name in Other Languages Sulfur at War Uses Bibliography Glossary
Atomic Info. Type: nonmetal Atomic Symbol: S Atomic Number: 16 Number of Isotopes: 4 Radioactivity: None of the four isotopes are radioactive Color: Yellowish Boiling Point: 717.9k Melting Point: 386k Shells: 2, 8, 6 Protons: 16 Nuetrons: 16 Electrons: 16
	Uses: Sulfur has many uses. Everyday you have probably used sulfur but you don't even know. Have you ever used a match? Have you ever seen any fireworks before? That means that you have used sulfur. Sulfur is used in matches, most gunpowder, fireworks, batteries, the vulcanization of rubber, medicines, permanent wave lotion, pesticides, and for making sulfuric acids. Sulfur is also used for bleaching foods, such as breads and fruits. It can be used to make sulfite paper, and to fumigate fumigant.
Name in other Languages: Latin: Sulphur Czech: Sira Croatian: Sumpor French: Soufre German: Schwefel Italian: Solfo Norwegian: Svovel Russian: Cepa Spanish: Azufre Sweding: Svavel
Sulfur at War: Sulfur has been used in chemical warfare for almost 100 years. Dichlorodietyl Sulfide or mustard gas was the first used chemical weapon in World War One. You see sulfur reacts with chlorine to produce a yellowish, non-leathal liquid with a foul smell. By adding more chlorine to this it makes a red liquid with a choking smell. If this red liquid is reacted with ethylene, it roduces not only a choking smell, but it is extremely poisoness. It can burn your eyes and make you blind! In World War One, people lined up who were effected by the gas. They were blindfolded and had to hold on to eachother because they were blind.
		Sources: For centuries going into a volcano, and scrapping sulfur off the sides was the only way to find sulfur. Naturally, it wasn't a very popular job. Now they have found a much better way. To get sulfur, superheated water is pumped through an underground pipe; inside this pipe are two smaller pipes. Compresesd air is pumped through the central pipe with a frothy mixture of liquid sulfur pushed through one of the smaller ones. Water and air are pushed through the remaining pipe. All this is happening deep underground. Most of the sulfur is taken to sulfuric acid plants.
Bibliography: Chemicool Periodic Table Of Elements Environmental Chemistry Periodic Table Ineteractive Periodic Table of Elements Periodic Table Periodic Table of Elements Periodic Table of Poetry Pictoral Periodic Table Web Elemtents Periodic Table Image found at http://animationfactory.com/af_alphabets_bounce_page_aq.html
Glossery: Atomic Number: the order of an element in Mendeleyev's table of the elements; equal to the number of protons in the nucleus or electrons in the neutral state of an atom of an element Isotope: one of two or more atoms with the same atomic number but with different numbers of neutrons Proton: A stable, positively charged subatomic particle in the baryon family having a mass 1,836 times that of the electron Nuetron: An electrically neutral subatomic particle in the baryon family, having a mass 1,839 times that of the electron, stable when bound in an atomic nucleus, and having a mean lifetime of approximately 1.0 ¥ 103 seconds as a free particle. It and the proton form nearly the entire mass of atomic nuclei Electron: A stable subatomic particle in the lepton family having a rest mass of 9.1066 ¥ 10-28 grams and a unit negative electric charge of approximately 1.602 ¥ 10-19 coulombs.