Can sulphur sublime?
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Explanation:
No Sulphur is not a sublimating substance
Some Sublime substances are
Camphor
Acetone
Answer:
In rummaging through my shelves, I came across a bottle of pharmaceutical-grade sulphur, the label of which remarks that it was sublimated. That ticked my curiousity, so I went looking to see how you'd sublimate sulphur in commercial quantities.
I came up empty on that, although I did learn that the sublimation process in question is from gaseous to solid phase. (I guess I subconsciously associated 'sublimation' with a solid->gaseous transition from the rather more common dry ice.)
So.. Just how do they sublimate sulphur in large quantities? I presume its purity would be affected by contaminants on the condensing surface, and any in the sample that had phase transitions very close to S's, so sulphur obtained by sublimation isn't necessarily 100% 'pure.' Just probably pretty close. :rolleyes: