Hey guys,

This is my Element project that we did a few weeks ago. I chose Sulfur for my element and I didn’t make a comic because I had just completed a comic for Humanities. Instead I wrote a short story and here it is, Hope you like it!

Hi, I am Sulfur-boy. I’d like too introduce myself. First of all sorry I smell really bad it’s my natural odor, it’s really embarrassing. Yes, I smell like rotten eggs. I am also really worried right now because I think I might start to melt soon. It’s 190˚F and my melting point is around 212˚F, Especially because I go from solid to gas pretty quick, but usually I am a solid. There’s also a fireplace and if I get to close to that I will have a blue flame and I release sulfur dioxide. Which is pretty much SO2 If you think about it scientifically. In case you didn’t get that that is one sulfur connected to two oxygens. Also be careful because that smell happens to suffocate you. It does that because it fills up the room and leaves no space for oxygen. So yeah that’s me rambling about my smell. Anyways, did you know that I’m made up of these cool things called allotropes. I am the element with the second most allotropes, thirty to be exact, cool right? Just saying the average element only has around two to six. Allotropes are different ways of organizing the atoms that still create the same element. For example, if you have two legos you can put one on top or take it off and put it on the bottom, but it’s still two lego pieces. Another example is diamond and graphite, both are allotropes of carbon but as you will know they have different properties. So there are a lot of clones of me. The most common is sulfur-32 it’s created in very big and hot stars, around 2.5 billion Kelvin. That requires the mix of one nucleus of silicon plus one nucleus of helium. Oh excuse me one second got to take this call.

   1 Minute Later

Sorry about that that was my friend, he said he found another sulfur deposit. He said he saw two the first on Earth’s moon, and the second one was on Jupiter’s volcanic moon, Io. So I’ll continue, so elemental sulfur is non-toxic but it can burn producing sulfur dioxide. Although sulfur dioxide is safe to put in food in small amounts, at high concentrations it harms the lungs, eyes, and other tissues. So yeah, you know I learned a really cool fact the other day, about Acid Rain. Acid rain is when people burn coal or petroleum, a form of natural gas, by industry and power plants it creates sulfur dioxide. Which reacts with water and oxygen to produce sulfuric acid (H₂SO₄) and sulfurous acid (H₂SO₃). The difference between these two is that they each react to things in their own special way. These acids are parts of Acid Rain which lower the pH of soil and freshwater bodies, usually harming underwater creatures and plants. Excuse me another phone call.

3 Minutes Later

I apologize that was my doctor asking me some questions to fill in my chart. He was asking me how much I weigh. I only weigh 32.065 g/mole. He also asked if I was becoming more pale and I said nope still Lemon Yellow. Then he hung up and called my S just like everyone else on this planet. It’s getting late so I better go sleep.

1.”Sulfur.” wikipedia. Wikipedia, 10 Feb 2011. Web. 10 Feb 2011. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur>.

2.”Montana Sulfur.” montanasulphur. Montana Sulphur and Chemical Company, n.d. Web. 10 Feb 2011.