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Sulphur

Sulphur Details

Sulphur Symbol: S

Sulphur Atomic Number: 16

Sulphur Atomic Weight: 32.064

What is Sulphur?
Yellow, nonmetallic element belonging to group 16 of the periodic table. It is an essential element in living organisms, needed in the amino acids cysteine and methionine, and hence in many proteins. Absorbed by plants from the soil as sulphate ion.

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