what will you get if you burn sulfur? what is the equation involved?

Answer 1

Starting with the above equations, and assuming you get a lot of SO 2 and SO 3, and a good old-fashioned lightning storm, some of the rain water can act in ionized fashion, and that's when you get H2SO3, which is your garden variety "acid rain".

Answer 2

In complete combustion, the reactant will burn in oxygen, producing a limited number of products. When a hydrocarbon burns in oxygen, the reaction will only yield carbon dioxide and water. When a hydrocarbon or any fuel burns in air, the combustion products will also include nitrogen. When elements such as carbon, nitrogen, sulfur, and iron are burned, they will yield the most common oxides. Carbon will yield carbon dioxide. Nitrogen will yield nitrogen dioxide. Sulfur will yield sulfur dioxide. Iron will yield iron(III) oxide. It should be noted that complete combustion is impossible to achieve. In reality, as actual combustion reactions come to equilibrium, a wide variety of major and minor species will be present. For example, the combustion of methane in air will yield, in addition to the major products of carbon dioxide and water, the minor products which include carbon monoxide, hydroxyl, nitric oxide, monatomic hydrogen, and monatomic oxygen.

S + O2 --> SO2

Sulfur dioxide (also sulphur dioxide, sulfurous anhydride or sulphurous anhydride) has the chemical formula SO2. The gas is irritating to the lungs and is frequently described as smelling of burning sulfur.

It is produced by volcanoes and in various industrial processes. In particular, poor-quality coal and petroleum contain sulfur compounds, and generate sulfur dioxide when burned: the gas reacts with water and atmospheric oxygen to form sulfuric acid (H2SO4) and thus acid rain.

Answer 3

Sulfur dioxide.
S8 + 8O2 = 8SO2
Remember that sulfur exists as S8 in elemental form. In excess of oxygen, Sulfur Trioxide is formed.
S8 +12 O2= 8SO3

Answer 4

Even though the above answers are correct, the technical and completely correct equation will be:

4S+5O2-------->2SO2+2SO3

Answer 5

S+ O2------> SO2
2S+ 3O2------> 2SO3
sulfurdioxide is formed
sulfurtrioxide is formed in traces
so what if it exists as S8.....but as per my knowledge it written as only S

Answer 6

under normal conditions (STP) you will pretty much only get SO2

S + O2 -------> SO2

in an oxygen rich atmosphere you can also get SO3 as a product

4S + 5O2 -------> 2SO2 + 2SO3