Talk:Sulfur
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Information Sources
Some of the text in this entry was rewritten from Los Alamos National Laboratory - Sulfur. Additional text was taken directly from USGS Sulfur Statistics and Information, USGS Periodic Table - Sulfur, from the Elements database 20001107 (via dict.org), Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (via dict.org) and WordNet (r) 1.7 (via dict.org). Data for the table was obtained from the sources listed on the subject page and WikiProject Elements but was reformatted and converted into SI units.
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Why is it that the world sans Britan wants "f" in Sulfur, while it's "ph" in others (Phosphorus, Telephone) TELEFONE?
- Sulfur has a Latin root. The Latin alphabet contains an f. Phosphorus has a Greek root. The Greek alphabet contains a phi. Go figure. User:Shimmin
- AFAIK, the Romans themselves used PH when transcribing the Greek letter Φ ("phi"). Today that letter sounds "F" in Greek, but perhaps it wasn't so at the time.Jorge Stolfi 23:16, 10 Apr 2004 (UTC)
The Precautions section seems to confuse sulfur dioxide and hydrogen disulfide. Isn't the smell-deadening effect specific to the latter? (Methinks that SO2 would go straight from pungent to painful to lethal.) Also elemental sulfur does not seem to be as dangerous as its compounds.Jorge Stolfi 23:13, 10 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- I agree the precautions section needs serious corrections. It claims the smell-deadening effect for sulphur (Jorge is right, it's actually H2S), and describes elemental sulphur itself as "deadly" (actually it's toxicity is low.) In addition, the toxic effects of inhaling sulphur dioxide are wildly exaggerated; it's a significant irritant and a respiratory suppressant, it doesn't cause "immediate bleeding"!. I will make corrections when I get time later today, unless someone else does first. (I also intent to expand the allotropes from a single line to a subsection, and move "amorphous sulphur" there from its incorrect position under "compounds"). Securiger 00:59, 29 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Sorry, people... Mea culpa (my bad). I was misinformed. This information was word of mouth from someone I respected, but the words were several years old when I wrote them here, so I must have gotten it way wrong. Please forgive, and please correct me? I would correct the info myself but I know I'm not the expert. Thanks for your attention to detail. Humbly, -- JustAnyone | [[User talk::Justanyone|talk]] 4/28/2004 10:32 pm CDT
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