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Find out what's responsible for the smell of rotten eggs - compounds of sulfur!Key facts
- Sulfur in its pure form is a bright yellow solid.
- Sulfur compounds are responsible for pungent smells, like raw garlic and rotten eggs.
- Sulfur's mains use is in the production of sulfuric acid, which is used in fertilisers.
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Sulfur
On the planet Venus, the clouds aren’t made of water, like on Earth.
They’re made of sulfur dioxide and droplets of sulfuric acid – two compounds that contain the element sulfur.
Sulfur dioxide = SO2
Sulfuric acid = H2SO4
Sulfur is the tenth most abundant element in the Universe as a whole …
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