Sulfur or sulphur (see spelling differences) is a chemical element with symbol S and atomic number 16. It is an abundant, multivalent non-metal. Under normal conditions, sulfur atoms form cyclic octatomic molecules with chemical formula S8. Elemental sulfur is a bright yellow crystalline solid at room temperature. Chemically, sulfur reacts with all elements except for nitrogen and the noble gases.
Elemental sulfur occurs naturally as the element (native sulfur), but most commonly occurs in combined forms as sulfide and sulfate minerals. Being abundant in native form, sulfur was known in ancient times, being mentioned for its uses in ancient India, ancient Greece, China, and Egypt. Sulfur is referred to in the Bible as brimstone. Today, almost all elemental sulfur is produced as a byproduct of removing sulfur-containing contaminants from natural gas and petroleum. The element's largest commercial use (after mostly being converted to sulfuric acid) is to produce sulfate and phosphate fertilizers, because of the relatively high requirement of plants for sulfur and phosphorus. Sulfuric acid is also a primary industrial chemical outside fertilizer manufacture. Other uses for the element are in matches, insecticides and fungicides. Many sulfur compounds are odoriferous, and the smell of odorized natural gas, skunk scent, grapefruit, and garlic is due to organosulfur compounds. Hydrogen sulfide imparts the characteristic odor to rotting eggs and other biological processes.
Sulfur is a chemical element.
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Sulphur (French: Soufre) is a city in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 20,410 at the 2010 census. Sulphur is part of the Lake Charles Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Sulphur is named for the sulfur mines that were operated in the area in the 1900s. In 1867, Professor Eugene W. Hilgard, an experienced geologist who was prospecting for oil and other minerals, conducted exploratory borings in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana and discovered sulfur in the caprock of a salt dome. However, the sulfur was beneath several hundred feet of muck and quicksand containing deadly hydrogen sulfide gas, which made mining extremely hazardous. Repeated unsuccessful attempts to sink conventional mining shafts in the 1870s and 1880s resulted in the loss of many lives.
In 1890, the German immigrant Herman Frasch invented and patented the Frasch Process of mining sulfur, using concentric pipes to pump superheated water into the ground, liquefy the mineral, and force the liquid to the surface with compressed air. The first molten sulfur was brought to the surface on Christmas Eve of 1894. Sulfur soon began to be mined on an industrial scale, with the molten mineral allowed to solidify and dry in enormous vats 100 by 400 feet, then blasted and hauled by rail to the Sabine River for shipment. Frasch's invention greatly facilitated sulfur mining, and the Union Sulphur Company, a joint venture of Dr. Frasch and the American Sulphur Company that owned the land, sparked a period of booming growth in the decades that followed.
Here is salvation
Between vacant walls of sleep
An thus I carry the light
From the valleys of Sodom
To the Golgotha rise
Here is perdition
In front of wailing walls
I need it's stench to breathe
Fucking all it's sacred holes
Sulphur
Guide me through
These temples
Pulsing through
Lord
It burns
Throughout this darkness
The tender white
In endless black
It burns the world
Lord
Let them eat glass again
Let them chew it to tiny pieces
These are the greatest of all pains
Great Father
Thy maker
High Master
Breathe Sulphur
Lord
Let me be your Lazarus
There is so much to erase
When the flames
Are reaching higher
Lord
Grand your host
Your limb
Your blood
Endow belief
There is so much to reveal
Raise black
In dormant temples
Black incense black shroud
Salvation coming
Total death
Hear their wailing
Sew their hearts
Oh holy guardian angel
Abramelin without end
For what is worth
To resurrect
To live and breathe
A thousand year from now
Lord
It burns
Throughout this darkness
The tender white
In endless black
It burns the sun
Lord
Let me suck you
Expelled faith
Let me die to live
These are the
Greatest of all pains
Great Father
Great Father
A am yours to follow
Great Father