Q. Show Uses of Sulphur?
Sulphur is used in the manufacture of sulphur dioxide, sulphuric acid, and gunpowder. Match. fertilisers, drugs, bleaching agents, leather and other products. Large quantities of elemental sulphur are used in the vulcanisation of rubber, in certain ointments and medicines. Sulphuric acid of varying concentrations is used in the manufacture of fertilisers, paints, pigments, dye-stuffs, fibres, plastics, detergents and soaps. It also finds its use in refining petroleum. In recent years nitrogen-sulphur compounds have aroused considerable interest because of their superconducting properties. A binary polymer, (SN),, exhibits metallic characteristics and becomes superconducting below 0.33 K.