and I want to learn, for realz, I want to not suck no more in a few months or years
but what about sulfur?
Get it elemental, under rocks and stuff, near volcanoes too, it’s plentiful
It forms funky cyclic octa-molecules S8. It’s bright yellow & crystalline
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| Solid sulphur crystal |
Today we get most of sulfur from exhausted SO2, and purification of petroleum & natural gas that gives H2S
Both SO2 and H2S can give sulfur in an organic solvent, monoethanolamine (MEA)
Why u need sulfur tho?
What you want to make is sulfuric acid.
H2SO4
Sulfuric acid makes phosphoric acid for fertilizers. Mind you that fertilizers are a huge deal. Something I hadn’t realized before studying chemistry.
Sulfuric acid is also making Hydrogen, in a sulfur-iodine cycle
and it’s used a lot in steelmaking, to clean metal sheets from rust
it’s the acid catalyst we use for caprolactam → nylon, hydrochloric acid, petroleum derivatives, and much more
it can unblock your pipes, hydrolysing fats
finally, it’s the electrolyte for lead-acid batteries in cars
click here to learn how to make sulfuric acid from sulfur
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