Scientific Questions About Sulfur/Sulphur?

Question

Can any of you tell me what group number/family name sulfur is in. The period number of sulfur (what is a period number?), the physical state of when sulfur is found in nature. 6 common physical properties of sulfur. As well as who, when, where and how it was discovered. Also 3 uses it has in society. You don't have to answer all of these, just the ones you know the answer to please.

Answer 1

Sulfur is found in nature as solid, elemental sulfur, as sulfides of various metals such as lead, copper etc, and in several sulfate minerals. I beleve it was known since ancient times elemental sufur often is found on, or very near, the surface in areas of volcanic activity. It is used in matches, fireworks, black powder, vulcanizing rubber, and to make sufuric acid.

Answer 2

"...Basically I was thinking about the big bang and how in the beginning there was one thing (i think it was an atom and please correct me if i'm wrong) and this atom exploded and it created everything that is today..." What, if any "thing" existed before the Big Bang is totally unknown and probably unknowable. At the instant of the Big Bang, which we are forced to assume occurred within nothingness, there was nothing but space-time and energy. Every thing else came later. I'm not your basic religious fundamentalist. I have a lot of trouble with putting faith in a book written some 2,000 years ago by several different authors who, in countless cases, disagreed with each other. At the same time, though, I personally can't escape the requirement that there exists -- or did exist -- a First Cause. Science has been struggling long and hard with anwering your question and so far has come up with little more than theory. I try to imagine the time when science will be able to prove one or more of these theories with some etched-in-stone, conclusive physical evidence. Let's say that it's discovered that A + B - Y = The Universe. All well and good, but we'd still be left with the same question -- how did it become possible that A + B - Y = The Universe? For that matter how did A, B and Y first come into existence? Some scientists argue that the creation of our universe was just a kind of accident. That, if true, seems to finally get rid of a First Cause, but how was it possible for such an accident to occur in the first place. Then we hear about notions that our universe is but one that's somehow sprung from some Mother Universe, and that there are an infinity of other universes. Once again, how did that Mother Universe come into existence without a First Cause. It seems obvious to me that no matter how the universe formed we'll never get away from that First Cause, the supreme entity that started it all.

Answer 3

It can be found naturaly in a yellowish crystal or powder.
sulfur belongs to groupe 16 in the PTE.
It melts at 115oC.
Smells like rotten egg.
It's a nonmetal.
It turns blood red when melted above 200oC.
Makes blue flames.
It can be used for making rubber harder,smoother and more resistant to chemicals.
It's latin for 'burning stone'.
Errrr, as far as i can remember it's been used since like 2000BC by pagens.

Thats about all i know about the stuff, hope it helps.

Answer 4

Sulphur is a component of black powder.

Answer 5

http://www.webelements.com/webelements/elements/text/S/key.html

go to google

type in sulfer

and click on a web site.

that will be all the information you need.