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Sulphur

Sulphur or brimstone merce is a natural production. It is princiis usually of a pale yellow color; melts to a pally extracted from the laurel camphor tree, usually of a pale yellow color; melts to a pally extracted from the laurel camphor tice, clear, thin fluid, and volatile at about 2320 but it is also found in several other members Fahr., when it inflames spontaneously in the of the vegetable kingdom. It is a white, semiopen air, and burns with a bluish flame. It crystalline solid, very volatile at common is insoluble in water and in alcohol; soluble in temperatures; soluble in alcohol, ether, oils, and acetic acid, and slightly but sufficiently so in water to impart its characteristic smell and taste. The Chinese and Japanese extract the camphor by cutting the wood into small pieces, and boiling it with water in iron vesturpentine and fat oils, and freely so in bisulphuret of carbon and hot liquor of potassa. With oxygen it forms sulphuric and sulphurous acids, and with the metals it combines as SULPHURETS or SULPHIDES. Its specific gravity is from 1.982 to 2.045 (water standard). The sels-which are covered with large carthen specific gravity of its vapor is 6.648 (air standard). 4350.

Amorphous or Brown Sulphur. Prepared from sublimed sulphur by melting it, increasing the heat to 320° Fahr., and continuing it at that temperature for about 30 minutes, or until it becomes brown and viscid; it is then poured into water. It is now ductile like wax, may be easily moulded, and when cooled does not again become fluid below 600° Fahr.