Who discovered sulfur, in what year was it discovered, and in what country? Please answer!?

Question

I just need to know who discovered it, what country it was discovered and the year. PLease give me the answer..i cant find it anywhere!

Answer 1

better check this out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur

Answer 2

What Year Was Sulfur Discovered

Answer 3

In ancient times sulfur was known, Homer (a legendary ancient Greek poet) mentioned "pest-averting sulfur". In the 8th century BC and in 427 BC, the tribe of Boeotia, a region in Greece, destroyed the walls of a city by burning a mixture of coal and sulfur. Sometime in the 12th century AD, the Chinese invented gun powder which was a mixture of Potassium Nitrate, Carbon, and Sulfur. In the late 1770s, Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, a French nobleman, helped convince the scientific community that sulfur was an element and not a compound. In 1867, sulfur was discovered in underground deposits in Louisiana and Texas.

As you can see, the ancient world knew about sulfur. The ancient Greeks made use of it. You could also quote its development and use as time progressed.

Answer 4

Homer mentioned "pest-averting sulfur" in the 8th century BC and in 424 BC, the tribe of Boeotia destroyed the walls of a city by burning a mixture of coal, sulfur, and tar under them. Sometime in the 12th century, the Chinese invented gun powder which is a mixture of potassium nitrate (KNO3), carbon, and sulfur. Early alchemists gave sulfur its own alchemical symbol which was a triangle at the top of a cross. In the late 1770s, Antoine Lavoisier helped convince the scientific community that sulfur was an element and not a compound.

Answer 5

I think who discovered it will remain a mystery. Here is some history though.


The word sulphur is Latin for "burning stone", and was used almost interchangeably with the term for fire. Because of its combustibility, sulphur was used for a variety of purposes at least 4,000 years ago (Cunningham 1935).

Sulphur was used by pagan priests 2,000 years before the birth of Christ. Pre-Roman civilizations used burned brimstone as a medicine and used "bricks" of sulphur as fumigants, bleaching agents, and incense in religious rites. Pliny (23-27 A.D.) Reported that sulphur was a "most singular kind of earth and an agent of great power on other substances," and had "medicinal [sic] virtues" (Cunningham 1935:17). The Romans used sulphur or fumes from its combustion as an insecticide and to purify a sick room and cleanse its air of evil (Cunningham 1935). The same uses were reported by Homer in the Odyssey in 1000 B.C.

The Greeks and Romans discovered that sulphur could be utilized to make fire and the pyrotechnical displays associated with the Roman circus. The Romans also experimented with using sulphur with tar, rosin, bitumen, and other combustibles. Their work resulted in the production of incendiary weapons, but this ability disappeared with the decline of the Roman Empire. Crusaders returning from the Holy Land in the early 1300s brought with them the knowledge of gunpowder, which had been developed by the Chinese during the time of Confucius (557?-479 B.C.) By mixing sulphur with other substances (Yellow Magic 1937; Mason 1938; Shelton1979). Armed with the knowledge of gunpowder, Europeans demanded increasing quantities of sulphur, beginning in the 12th century. The Greatest impetus in sulphur’s industrial use coincides with the birth of chemistry in the 1700s and the recognition of sulphuric acid as an important and versatile mineral acid.

Answer 6

Sulphur was known in ancient times and referred to in Genesis as brimstone. Assyrian texts dated around 700-600 BC refer to it as the "product of the riverside", where deposits could be found. In the 9th century BC, Homer mentioned "pest-averting sulphur". In 424 BC, the tribe of Bootier destroyed a city's walls using a burning mixture of coal, sulphur, and tar.

Around the 12th century, the Chinese, probably, discovered gun powder (a mixture of potassium nitrate, KNO3, carbon, and sulphur).

Sulphur is one of the elements which has an alchemical symbol, shown below (alchemy is an ancient pursuit concerned with, for instance, the transformation of other metals into gold). Alchemists knew that mercury can be fixed with sulphur.
Possibly Antoine Lavoisier should be credited with convincing the scientific community that sulphur is an element (around 1777).

Sometime prior to the autumn of 1803, the Englishman John Dalton was able to explain the results of some of his studies by assuming that matter is composed of atoms and that all samples of any given compound consist of the same combination of these atoms. Dalton also noted that in series of compounds, the ratios of the masses of the second element that combine with a given weight of the first element can be reduced to small whole numbers (the law of multiple proportions). This was further evidence for atoms. Dalton's theory of atoms was published by Thomas Thomson in the 3rd edition of his System of Chemistry in 1807 and in a paper about strontium oxalates published in the Philosophical Transactions. Dalton published these ideas himself in the following year in the New System of Chemical Philosophy. The symbol used by Dalton for sulphur is shown below. [See History of Chemistry, Sir Edward Thorpe, volume 1, Watts & Co, London, 1914.]

Answer 7

No one knows.

It was discovered in prehistoric times as pure sulfur, called "flowers of sulfur", is common around most volcanoes.

Answer 8

sulfur has been used since prehistoric times...it has been called brimstone