When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Sulfur - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur

    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 1 February 2025. This article is about the chemical element. For other uses, see Sulfur (disambiguation). Chemical element with atomic number 16 (S) Sulfur, 16 S Sulfur Alternative name Sulphur (pre-1992 British spelling) Allotropes see Allotropes of sulfur Appearance Lemon yellow sintered microcrystals ...

  3. Discovery of chemical elements - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_of_chemical_elements

    (The Ebers papyrus was written c. 1550 BC, but is believed to have been copied from earlier texts.) [25] [26] Designated as one of the two elements of which all metals are composed in the sulfur-mercury theory of metals, first described in pseudo-Apollonius of Tyana's Sirr al-khaliqa ('Secret of Creation') and in the works attributed to Jabir ...

  4. List of chemical element name etymologies - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chemical_element...

    Sulfur (S) 16 Old Latin sulpur (later sulphur, sulfur) Proto-Indo-European *swéplฬฅ (genitive *sulplós), nominal derivative of *swelp. [15] Latin Proto-Indo-European (PIE) "to burn" The word came into Middle English from Anglo-Norman sulfre, itself derived through Old French soulfre from Late Latin sulfur. [16] From Proto-Indo-European *swelp ...

  5. History of the periodic table - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_periodic_table

    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 28 January 2025. Development of the table of chemical elements The American chemist Glenn T. Seaborg —after whom the element seaborgium is named—standing in front of a periodic table, May 19, 1950 Part of a series on the Periodic table Periodic table forms 18-column 32-column Alternative and extended ...

  6. List of chemical elements - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chemical_elements

    118 chemical elements have been identified and named officially by IUPAC.A chemical element, often simply called an element, is a type of atom which has a specific number of protons in its atomic nucleus (i.e., a specific atomic number, or Z).

  7. Periodic table - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic_table

    The periodic table, also known as the periodic table of the elements, is an ordered arrangement of the chemical elements into rows ("periods") ... Sulfur 16 S 32.06 ...

  8. Alchemical symbol - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemical_symbol

    Spirit of wine (concentrated ethanol; called aqua vitae or spiritus vini) ๐Ÿœˆ (), S.V. or ๐Ÿœ‰ Amalgam (alloys of a metal and mercury) ๐Ÿ› = aอžaอža, ศงศงศง (among other abbreviations). Cinnabar (mercury sulfide) ๐Ÿœ“ Vinegar (distilled) ๐Ÿœ‹ (in Newton) Vitriol (sulfates) ๐Ÿœ– [5] Black sulphur (residue from sublimation of sulfur) ๐Ÿœ [7]

  9. Mendeleev's predicted elements - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendeleev's_predicted_elements

    The lightest of the Group 0 gases, the first in the periodic table, was assigned a theoretical atomic mass between 5.3 × 10 −11 u and 9.6 × 10 −7 u. The kinetic velocity of this gas was calculated by Mendeleev to be 2,500,000 meters per second.