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Sulfur - Science topic
An element that is a member of the chalcogen family. It has an atomic symbol S, atomic number 16, and atomic weight 32.066. It is found in the amino acids cysteine and methionine.
Questions related to Sulfur
How can I calculate the Nitrogen (N), Phosphorus (P), Potassium (K), sulfur (S), and Zinc (Zn) content in rice grain and Straw and their uptake in rice grain and straw? Moreover, could you please mention the unit of nutrient (N, P, K, S & Zn) uptake in grain and straw?
We analyzed our sample for elemental composition using the ThermoFisher Scientific Flash Smart V CHNS/O analyzer, which did not detect any sulfur. However, XRF analysis revealed approximately 60% sulfur content. Why is there such a significant difference between the two methods? What could be the possible reasons for this discrepancy?
Is CARBOSEP CHO782 column(HPLC) is compatible for using 5mmol sulphuric acid as mobile phase instead of water? Or any method is available to analyse acidic samples in same?
4% H2SO4 based sample is neutralized using calcium carbonate and subjected for HPLC sugar analysis. But the neutralized sample contains trace amount calcium carbonate with it. Hence, a strong drift disturbs the baseline during the elution of the sugars(Retention time -12 to 14 in the picture) which makes difficult to determine the sugar concentration.
Is there any method to reduce/remove the calcium carbonate to remove the drift? Or else whether the column is compatible to use 5mmol sulphuric acid as mobile phase? Or any methods/ protrocols / suggestions to overcome this issue?

I am attempting to mix molten sulfur (at 120-135°C) with zinc oxide and bentonite; however, upon adding the zinc oxide, the mixture is forming a thick paste.
Please suggest some rheology modifiers/ additives to sustain the mixture in liquid form.
This is a problem from the engineering field, and it is expected to design appropriate adsorbents.
Q1: How to design an O₂ selective adsorbent in a mixture environment of CH₄ (60%), N₂ (20%), O₂ (3 - 8%), C₂H₆ (5%), C₂H₄ (5%)?
Q2: How to design a high - performance Ne selective adsorbent in the Ne/He system (the temperature can be reduced), and it is required to reduce Ne in high - purity He gas to the ppm level?
Q3: How to remove various sulfur - containing compounds, thiols, carbonyl sulfide, etc. in the coal/petroleum industrial gas system?
Q4: Design a low - partial - pressure - selective adsorbent in the high - purity electronic specialty gas system, with the requirement of removing impurities to the ppb level.
I am working on room temperature sodium sulfur batteries. For a CNT/S based cathode with 0.1 C rate, I am calculating the corresponding current as follows:
Current = (0.1)* [(mass of coated foil - mass of bare foil) * active material]*(percentage of sulfur/100) * 1675.
I am calculating the current with this formula and running the cells. In the cells, the total time taken for the cycle should be 10 hours (5+5) as per my understanding. But, I am getting a total time of 7 hours. I am confused if I am calculating the current wrong or interpreting wrongly. Please help me
Hello, everybody. I am an undergraduate student. I have tried calculating the [4Fe-4S] cluster's energy and frequency using the Gaussian program. But the problem is that the program does not recognize sulfur from the cytidine, even though I removed the sulfur to make it an ion. How do I calculate it? How do I make the input structure? How to insert the sulfur atom?
Thank you.
What is the method of measuring sulfur for minerals such as metal oxide or molybdenum oxide through Leco furnace (or similar furnaces) at different temperatures, times and weights after leaching and after cleaning by titration method (gravimetry)?
Is it possible to determine total sulphur in plant material from microwave acid digestion with nitric acid?
Thank you.
Voisy just published a paper on gold nugget formation under seismic piezometric conditions that has pretty much gone viral. Even Anton Petrov on YouTube has chimed in. The full text is hard to find…and the gold generated in the quartz oscillation experiment only produced 5 micron crystals. Probably from quartz crystals from gold veins with fluid inclusions. I think gold nuggets grow like bone…under physical stress…but what about copper?

Does reduced graphene oxide successfully nitrogen/sulfur dual doped?
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When one is to perform Simulation or modelling of Pyrolysis of Biomass Waste materials using Aspen Plus software, and one has both the macromolecules breakdown (Cellulose, Lignin and Hemicellulose) together with ultimate analysis results of (carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen and sulphur). When one wants to convert the non-conventional components into conventional components in the RYIELD reactor block. What are the equations one use for the above?
Particular when someone wants to model kinetics-based pyrolysis processes?
Thanks
Methionine, cysteine, homocysteine, and taurine are the 4 common sulfur-containing amino acids, but only the first 2 are incorporated into proteins. Sulfur belongs to the same group in the periodic table as oxygen but is much less electronegative. Which plants are high in methionine and or cysteine?
We are trying to coat some cathode materials on Al-foil ( ex - LiFePO4 , S@CNT, etc). When we coated the Al foil with the cathode (ex - S@CNT) material , the cycling result was annoying. But the same Sulfur cathode was coated on Cu-foil, the result was satisfactory (except for obvious high voltage range > 3V). Same happens for other cathode materials also. We tried many thigs like drying the foil before coating in vacuum, and dry for longer time after coating. Nothing gave any improvrment in result.
What we noticed is, when doing CV for the S-cathode on Al, an irreversible reaction peak around 1 V was occurring. However this was not there for non-sulfur cathode like, LiFePO4 and Na3V2(PO4)3.
In the file attached below, the first one is when sulfur cathode is coated, and 2nd one is when NVP cathode is coated and worked for Li and Na battries respectively. all the corresponding electrolytes used were as usual as in the literature.
The coating composition was as usual as in literature - 80:10:10 material:CB:PVdF grinded with mortar and pestle for about 1.5 to 2h in NMP , with doctor blade technique with approx. loading of 1.5 to 2 mg/sqcm
What may be the problem..? please anybody explain this and give valuable suggetions.
where we are missing ? any additional steps should we follow , which in literature are not mentioned ?
The idea is to design an IoT system that is able to capture real-time conditions from an oil palm tree to ensure optimal growth.
Nutrients such as Sulfur, Nitrogen, Boron, Zinc, Copper and Iron.
I will make solution containing Mo, Fe, Al etc.
So I will mix NaMoO4, Fe2(SO4)3 etc. in solution.
When Sodium contact with Sulfur, How change?
will they make Sodium sulfide or precipitate?
Please tell me your knowledge ~~~~
I have synthesised CuInS2 nanoparticle. But every precursors that I have used here is in chloride form. i.e, copper chloride, indium chloride and sulphur source is thiourea. If I want to dope silver to it, whether silver nitrate precurosr is ok? Is this disperse/dissolve in water?
Hello all, we face a problem when we test the sulfur content of our sample (kerosene) using the RX-360SH device. The device gives us a negative value. What does that mean? How do I treat this problem?



Use of thioglycolic acid as a stabiliser during the synthesis of nanoparticles
While the purpose of adding acid types into the PVA plasticizer when making gel electrolytes in supercapacitors is for conductivity, what are the other purposes? So why do we add acid? Why do we add specifically sulfuric and phosphoric acid? Or KOH is added, is there a review or article explaining their purpose? I would appreciate it if you could share what you know, if you have any. There are interpretations of the electrochemical results when different gels are used. But I would like an article or rewiev on why they are used. In other words, it's a bit like the history of gel electrolytes, etc...
I have to prepare a formulation by dissolving sulfur in a vegetable fix oil. The sulfur is suspended in the oil and is not fully dissolved. How can I dissolve it?
I really appreciate any suggestion you can provide.
I have synthesized GO using a modified Hummer's method as follows: 0.125 g of graphite fine powder and 0.125 g of sodium nitrate were mixed followed by the addition of 5.75 ml of concentrated sulphuric acid under constant stirring for 10 min (in an ice bath). After that, 0.775 g of potassium permanganate was added gradually to the mixture (in an ice bath) and stirred for 10 min - the mixture color turned to dark green. Then, the reaction mixture was transferred to a pre-heated oil bath and stirred at 35 °C for 1 h. The obtained mixture was diluted by the addition of 10 ml of DI water, then heated up to 90 °C for 30 min. Again 25 ml of DI water was added. Last, 1 ml H2O2 was added to terminate the reaction -the mixture turned to earthy yellow. I washed the product with distilled water and dried it at oven 60 °C for 24 h -the resulting product is a little bit sticky black solid.
It is reported that sulfate can be incorporated in the vaterite polymorph of calcium carbonate. I am interested to know how the incorporation influences the physical properties, strength/hardness of calcium carbonate?
What are the materials/calibration and calculations of CNS (Carbon, Nitrogen, and Sulfur) analysis?
I am facing a reproducibility issue. I am measuring the specific capacitance for my sample (carbide based). I am getting pseudocapacitive behavior in CV curves. The first time while measuring GCD i am getting around 100 F/g at 1 A/g current density, but when i try to repeat the same i am not getting the same value. Moreover the GCD curve is not triangular shape.
Electrolyte used is 1M Sulphuric acid
Mass loading is from 1.3 to 1.8 mg/cm2
Potential window is from -0.1 V to 0.4 V
Is there a way to dissolve a high concentration of sulfur in water (over 5%) so that it does not precipitate even at room temperature?
45ml of 55% w/v sulphuric acid was taken. To hydrolyze 1gram of bleached mango wood cellulose. On addition of this powder to the sulphuric acid at 45°C , the mixture turned dark black! Whereas other article suggest that nanocellulose suspension should have been whitish? Why is it so?
Hello everybody,
together with the team we are currently developing an analytical method for determination of BHT in river sediments. Copper is very often implemented in sample preparation in order to lower the amount of sulphur compounds. The problem is - once we added copper, BHT was not detected at all. I would be glad to know what is the most likely product of the reaction.
I have a question regarding the limitations of Electron Spin Resonance (ESR). I've read somewhere that ESR cannot detect radicals with short lifetimes.
I'm trying to understand what exactly is meant by that.
For example: a highly dynamic system like liquid sulfur at high temperatures (350 °C). Sulfur chains with two radical chain-ends are constantly reacting with other sulfur molecules at an average rate of every 100 picoseconds. Will ESR be able to detect any signal in this case?
Even though radicals are fast to react, we have a steady-state concentration of radicals (on average radical concentration remains the same).
I would really appreciate any paper regarding this.
The lab is assisting farmers with the analysis of their leaves
Which steps, materials, temperature or stirring contain this process? Is there any publish or book? I want to materials make up only sulphuric acid and pyrrole monomer. Because my materials are unsufficient.. Thank you for your attention.
I am working on room temperature sodium sulfur batteries with carbon-based cathode. I have tried many carbonaceous materials like microporous carbon, cnt etc which were reported in literature. But in every case, I get very high charging capacity and low discharge capacity. Ex. In a paper, for CNT-S composite, they reported a capacity of ~500 mAh/g at 0.1 C whereas I got 140 mAh/g at 0.01C, even though I followed the exact same procedure.
Please help me in understanding why I am getting such high charging capacities and so low discharging capacities. The electrolyte Im using is 1 M NaClO4 in TEGDME and Na metal foil as anode. I`ve put the charge-discharge curve of my battery.

If 2% sulphur is to be doped using thiourea as a precursor in TiO2 (using titanium butoxide as a precursor), What is the formula to calculate the amount of S dopant precursor and the amount of titanium butoxide needed in grams?
Is there any particular formula to calculate it from mol% and weight%?
Can rubbers be dissolved in a solvent and cured to get respectable physical properties?
I wanted to see if I can cure polar rubbers by blending the ingredients in a suitable solvent. The thought originated with how some rubbers aren't really available in their latex form. What do you think should be the parameters one should take care when using a solvent like Toluene when dissolving rubber chemicals like sulfur and accelerators?
A company is use Sulphuric Acid instead of HCl in Zinc Phospate coating process however, over time, iron oxide particles accumulate on the bottom of the bath and it makes is less usable. I am looking for a method to clean this accumulated particles. Is there any method of way to do this?
Has anyone studied how Sulfur (direct or by Suflur doner accelerators) can form crystals on a rubber surface over time ? I am not referring to Sulfur blooming as these appear as white particles on the surface and they are crystal-like under the SEM.
Rubber material is synthetic polyisoprene.
FTIR and XPS both show high levels of Sulfur but this is the first time I have experienced this. I appreciate anyone who knows about this phenomenon can explain this to me.
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The protein of my interest has a covalently bound inhibitor, which is a sulfone compound. I am currently trying to prepare all the files necessary for the MD simulation and use CGenFF server to generate topology of the modified residue (with the inhibitor bound). However, CGenFF is unable to recognize the sulfur type and generates the following error: "attype warning: unknown sulfur type not supported;skipped molecule".
Is there any way to fix this problem or do I have to choose another way of creating the topology file? Can you give me any recommendations on which servers I can use instead then?
Any advice would be appreciated.
Dear researchers I need your help because I'm lost,
I've ordered some copper phosporus alloy (CuP with 15% of Phosphorus) and during the summer a blue loose solid crystalised on the surface I was wondering what it could be?
apparently it could have been an oxidation since a lot of humidity was in the air during this summer but I can't find what compound it could have formed upon oxidation?
I thought also about contamination of sulfur with formation of a sulfate salt but it seems far fetched do you have other ideas?
thank you for the help
zakaria
Lakes can only contain methane. For example, Lake Baikal (Источник: discoverynn.ru). The Caspian Sea is very similar to the Black Sea, but there is no connection to the ocean and no hydrogen sulfide. I think hydrogen sulfide needs sulfur. There is no sulfur in river waters. There is sulfur in ocean water. I think that if the Bosporus is blocked, then hydrogen sulfide will disappear in the Black Sea. Photo from the Internet, the author is indicated on the photo.

I have synthesized MoS2 nanoflowers using a hydrothermal method with ammonium molybdate as the Mo precursor and thiourea as the sulfur source. Additionally, I introduced oxalic acid into the reaction mixture. I'm curious to understand the role of oxalic acid in this synthesis. Specifically, can oxalic acid induce the creation of sulfur vacancies in the resulting MoS2 nanoflowers? I would appreciate insights or references related to this topic.
What is the equivalent energy of the element Sulphur? with appropriate reference. I need to calculate the energy input from Sulphur fertilizers.
Thanks in advance.
I am investigating disulfide radicals of the type in Hall et al (2014) doi:10.1021/ja500087m, and I am having trouble rationalizing the results I am getting in the optimizations using Gaussian. Obviously the lowest energy is found when the charge is symmetrically distributed, but I want to investigate the geometry and energy is the charge is localized on one sulfur. If that doesn't seem to make sense chemically, trust me I know, I'm working a hunch.
I have run a CASSCF calculation but the calculation still determines the symmetrical distribution to be better and gives that result. I have tried making one of the sulfurs a separate charged fragment and the initial guess gives me a good result, but once I run the optimization it all blends.
Is there any way to get the software to give the lowest-energy-possible-if-this-one-condition-is-met?
Thanks in advance for any ideas!
I submited the lig_fix.mol2 file to genarate topology into a str file and got this messege error:
"readmol2 warning: non-unique atoms were renamed. Now processing molecule LIG ... attype warning: unknown sulfur type not supported; skipped molecule."
Dear everyone
is there a special sintered metal as filter substrate (in DPF) used with high sulphur diesel fuel. I found an article " Solid nanoparticle and gaseous emissions of a diesel engine with a diesel particulate filter and use of a high-sulphur diesel fuel and a medium-sulphur diesel fuel" but unfortunately the researchers does not mention to the type of sintered metal?
Dear researchers
I am working on the activated carbon, which synthesized by sulfuric acid impregnation. From EDS , 3% sulfur content attached to the AC. I studied the this material for Pb2+ uptake, and it can remove up to 100 mg/L initial concentration of lead solution. But, when studied, the selectivity by mixing Pb 2+ with Mg2+. Cu2+ and Zn2+ the material was not selective. May I know the reason.
Here is the supporting data related to the coexisting ions :
Ion Ionic radius Type of acid
Cu2+ 73 Borderline
Mg2+ 79 Hard
Pb2+ 119 borderline
Zn2+ 74 borderline
Thank you all. :)
The samples are Periwinkle shells, clam shells, whelks shells and snail shells. they were chemically activated by Sulphuric acid and Potassium Hydroxide.
The SEM and FTIR imagery is required for my Thesis.
Hi Researchers,
I am working on sulfur deficiency in arabidopsis plants and facing a strange issue that the Arabidopsis plants are not showing any deficiency symptoms even if I remove sulfate from the media. I am growing them in a modified MS salt (without sulfur) with 0.8% agar. I learned that agar may contain sulfate and therefore some researchers do remove them. However, if any of you have any real experience of removing sulfate from agar, could you let me know in detail.
My growth condition:
1. Surface sterilize and vernalize for 3d in 4"C
2. Germinate in full strenght MS media for 7d
3. Transfer to S-sufficient or S-deficient media and then study the effect.
I have tested the salts components and seems there are no problem with either media or seed stocks. If you have any other suggestions to obtain the desired response from Arabidopsis plants, please let me know.
Your help is much appreciated.
Best
Arijit
I am trying to make rubber films from Natural rubber. Unfortunately, I don't have access to extruders or similar equipment and therefore work with solvents. As for my curing system, I am using Sulphur, DPG, Zinkoxide and Stearic Acid. I dissolve/disperse everything and then cast the solution into containers. Once the films are completely dry, I vulcanise them in an oven at 160 °C. However, the films look inhomogenious, are easy to break and are extremely sticky and tacky.
I hope someone can tell me what might be happening during cross-linking and how I can improve my process. I am grateful for any suggestions.
What is the best tool of characterization to detect a functional group substitution?
I have a sulphur dioxide that has probably substituted a bromide.
Can cement and liquid sulfur be used in a concrete mix at the same time?
Can asphalt and liquid sulfur be used in a concrete mix at the same time?
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Can someone provide me the protocol to prepare nutrient solutions (Hoagland or Steiner or any method) for inducing nutrient deficiency in plants?
I am often questioned by customers of the impact of the elemental sulfur in digester headspace (by biological sulfide oxydation treatment) that falls back into sludge digester.
my customers often observe very high H2S concentration in biogas when large amounts of elemental sulfur from headspace falls in the digestate. I thought it was caused by the sulfate/sulfite or even organic sulfur fraction in these elemental sulfur congregation, but now, I doubt it.
Does anyone know of the fate of elemental sulfur in digester sludge? Does biological sulfur reduction occur and enrich digestate in HS- (and therefore digester headspace in H2S, again!)?
How rich are sulfur congregation in digester headspace in organic sulfur, sulfite and or sulfate (in case of oxygen excess)?
Thanks in advance.
Gilles ADAM
In the acid hydrolysis step of nano cellulose extraction , recent literatures are citing oxalic acid treatment in comparison with sulphuric acid
I am sputter depositing a CZTS layer on molybdenum back electrode on a SLG substrate.
The sample turns black and not usable for the soalr cell application when I anneal it at 450 C, in Argon atmosphere with some Pure sulfur.
Please guide me how to perform the sulfrurization correctly.
Thank you
14 different quantum criteria oppose, in a duality of ratio 3/2, the five atoms constituting the twenty amino acids (and also constituting the four DNA bases with the Phosphorus in place of Sulphur). The fact that the genetic code is organized only with these five different atoms in this duality is therefore not random. The perfect complementarity of the quantum characteristics of Hydrogen and Sulphur (Phosphorus in DNA) is particularly remarkable. These last two atoms have indeed very different quantum characteristics (in contrast to Carbon, Nitrogen and Oxygen with common characteristics) which however complement each other perfectly to always oppose in a 3/2 ratio to three other atoms, constituents of amino acids (and DNA bases). For example, Sulphur has a maximum number of nine orbitals versus only one for Hydrogen. These two very different values nevertheless complement each other (10 orbitals) to oppose in a duality of ratio 3/2 to the three times five quantum orbitals of Carbon, Nitrogen and Oxygen (15 orbitals).
I have four samples of alloys(CdSxSe1-x) containing selenium and sulfur in different proportions. When we examined it with SEM , the sulfur element value appeared negative in all samples, but by (EDS/EDAX) examination, sulfur appears as a sign, so what is the reason for that?
Hello everybody,
Analysis of the main products of the sulfolane process, benzene and toluene, shows the presence of sulfur in toluene (not in benzene). We assume that the reason for this may be quality of the pyro-gasoline (residual sulfur) or the escaping of sulfolane with the products. But why only in toluene?
Best regards,
Tihomir Kovacevic
I use the anthrone method for determining the total carbohydrates in fruits, and I need to know how long time the anthrone solution stay active after preparing.
I have performed the nitration of 2-hydroxy-5-nitrobenzaldehyde in various conditions (for example, in the presence of sulphuric acid or acetic acid). However, in all cases, the precipitate that I received at the end of the reaction was an initial compound (2-hydroxy-5-nitrobenzaldehyde). Which methodology should I use?
I need to obtain absolute ethanol but i haven't molecular sieves in this moment, so i have some S2Cl2 wich is known to react with water to produce sulfur, HCl and SO2. I was planning to add the exact amount S2Cl2 considering that 4% of water, then either filter the sulfur or distil directly. Maybe i'll have to reflux to eliminate the gases. Thank you
I'm using Ni-Nta beads to purify the His-tag recombinant protein. After sonication, I haven't found any dimers upon SDS-PAGE. But after that load and the next purified eluted protein formed dimers. I used 3 mM beta-mercaptoethanol in all lysis and wash, elution buffers. my actual protein is 36 KDa but I'm obtaining a band at 72 KDa. My protein has a total of 11 sulfur molecules in protein atomic composition. How to reduce this dimer formation.
I am synthesizing VS2 using thioacetamide and ammonium metavanadate. But I am getting additional sulfur peaks in xrd. Can anyone suggest how to remove extra sulfur peaks from my sample?

Hi everyone, I am new to simulation and learning quantum espresso code. I am trying to Manipulate crystal structure in 2D materials, like MoS2, by replacing one or both Sulphur(s) with H-atom. in doing so, I partially used Vesta, but I couldn't get convergence. Can any one guide me how they actually do this stuff?
I am working on Li-S batteries I need further feedback from researchers.
How to overcome the expansion of sulfur?
How to functionalize a Polypropylene separator?
I want to change the PVDF +NMP binder because it's carcinogenic, so I want to replace it with some other environmentally friendly binder.
I have 3 samples coating with CB and MWCNT using ecoflex. Here are conditions of the samples after mapping using SEM/EDX.
1. sample 1: no coating
Findings after mapping: Carbon, Silicon and Oxygen
2. sample 2: treat with toluene
Findings: Carbon, Silicon, Oxygen and Sulphur
3. sample 3: treat with acetone
Findings: Carbon, Silicon, Oxygen and Ferum
I believed the original sample should have carbon, silicon and oxygen. But I have found another two elements, which were sulphur and ferum which I didn't used the during experimental work. I suspect the elements were debris since they were only 0.1~0.5 of the total elements.
Can anyone explain such conditions?
Regards
Fatimah
There is 5 mM of betamercaptoethanol is present in my protein. Please suggest methods to remove the BME. Furthermore, how strong is the affinity of BME with cystein of the protein because I have to label the cystein of the protein so I need free sulfur for this.
Thanks in advance!
I have started doing some ion chromatography experiments to identify reactive oxygen species in my product (active oxygen tablets). The product is made up of pentapotassium bisperoxymonosulphate which consists of sulphate, sulphuric acid and peroxymonosulphate. I am wondering if sulphuric acid itself can be put through the ion chromatography instrument and if so at what concentration would be recommended/ what would be the expected chromatogram?
Michael
I am calculating solubility of sulfur in natural gas mixture but i cant find Kij between C3 and butane. please help me to find these data.
Thanks
How to do sulfidation of 2D transition metals with sulfur powder?
I'm thinking about 'inverse vulcanized polysulfides' that theoretically are polymer chains of sulfur that are crosslinked with a divinylic monomer (two different sulfur chains can connect to a single vinyl group essentially making the crosslinker f=4). Sulfur chains are known to be dynamic and can make the network behave as a vitrimer or maybe a living polymer since the dynamic mechanism is based on radicals.
The assumption that the divinylic monomer is f=4 may or may not be correct. If it is, then we have a vitrimer, but if only one sulfur chain can connect to a single vinyl group, then we just have a thermoplastic (copolymer).
Is there a way to distinguish between these two possibilities outside of using solid state NMR to look at the bonding on the vinyl group?
What is the range of total sulphur in India soil
or else can we use concentrated nitric acid instead of concentrated sulphuric acid in GO synthesis
in materials science this word has a negative meaning, "the inclusion of sulfur in steel". but how to describe a composite, an alloy, where is the "inclusion" of intermetallic in the matrix? Where "inclusions" are positive meaning.
Maybe, "particles"??
I would like to know if there are any database or research study carried out mentioning about the proteins that doesn't have the cysteine aminoacid.
I knew few but would like to know more about them.
Hello guys.
I growing MoS2 on sio2(300nm)/Si substrate using solid precursor (Sulfur & MoO3 powder) in LP-CVD equipment.
And I have some questions.
1. Do I have to turn off the vacuum pump right after the process time ends?
2. Do I have to turn off the MFC to stop the Ar flow?
because if the as-grown Mos2 is naturally cooled(With Pump on, Ar flow), I think i can't precisely control the process time of synthetic process of MoS2
Hello,
After the characterization of graphene oxide with EDS (Energy Dispersive X-ray spectroscopy), the percentage of sulfur was considerable, almost equal to the percentage of oxygen. Can this contamination destroy the material and affect its applications? Knowing that it is a commercial graphene oxide (not made here in a lab), it came in liquid form, and I dried it to evaporate the water and only got a graphene oxide nano-layer.
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I am cycling my Lithium-Sulfur batteries, cathode is basic BP2000 or BP1300 carbon + sulfur + Conductive Carbon + PVDF binder. Often, during the first 2 cycles I will see these awful overcharging curves when using LiTFSI+LiNO3 (2%) DOL/DME (50/50) electrolyte. The one image without this phenomena is with regular LiTFSI DOL/DME electrolyte. We have remade the electrolyte twice to check for contaminants. We let the battery sit for 1 hour after assembly to allow the electrolyte to settle, I even did overnight. This phenomena is also observed in another lab group who has a separate glovebox, materials etc. What is the cause? A side reaction, the initial SEI formation taking forever? Do researchers just omit this first charge or discard the battery? This is happening quite often and would require a lot more assembly on our part.




Hello everyone,
While working on a research project i heated the Coca-cola in flask kept in reactor at higher temperatures 210 degrees for prolonged periods it boiled and came out of flask. It lefte the spots on reactor surface mainly made up of stain less steal. Now kindly let me know how to clean this spots, which acid and alkalies are best for this purpose. I want to to buy these acids and alklie in largee amount to use in future as well.
In my opinion sodium hydrooxide and sulphuric acid?
your kind guidness needed, Thanks
What is the method for calculate the sulfur in crude oil for production sulfur
Hi everyone, I want to obtain the elemental composition of a thin film coated on a gold surface. What I need to prove is that the presence of sulphur in the thin film. Which analysis gives better proof? SEM-EDX or XRF?
SO32- + R-S-S-R → R-S-SO3- + RS-
“Why can the sulfur atom with a lower oxidation number (the second sulfur in R-S-S-R, S -1 to S-2) oxidize the one with a higher oxidation number (SO32- to SO3-; S+4 to S+5)?”
Any experience how to set MP-AES 4200 to analyze phosphorus, sulfur and arsenic at wavelengths 213 nm and similar...? Is it possible to measure only extremely high concentrations >1g/l of P, S and As in a sample?
I am attempting to perform an Anthrone protocol for carbohydrate determination. The first step is to prepare anthrone reagent by dissolving anthrone powder in sulphuric acid (70%) to a final concentration of 1.42 g/L. This is supposed to dissolve and result in a yellow solution. However, when I attempt this, the solution remains clear and the anthrone crystals/flakes do not dissolve. Does anyone have any suggestions for how to correct this?
We have an acidic solution including sulphuric acid, zinc, iron, chlorine, and their relative compounds. How can we remove chloride from this solution? We have used copper sulfate and Zn powder, but it wasn't successful enough. Can you suggest another way to eliminate chloride from this solution?
ps: Cl content is 1400-2000 ppm.
Using compounds including Ag is costly.
We failed in using ozone to remove chloride.
I have 12 samples of plant samples of dried leaves. I want to check phosphorus and sulfur concentration in the leaves. I am searching for an appropriate method with better accuracy and feasibility for the estimation of the same.
I am trying to do ECCI on a sample of 316L steel. In the preparation, I am mechanically polishing 400-600-800-1200 grit paper then to a 0,3um silica polish. I finish with a electropolish of 25% nitric acid/75% methanol at 1Amp, 2 V. When I look at the sample under an optical microscope, I see NO grain boundaries.
My question is, should I expect to see grain boundaries after electropolishing under an optical microscope? Or should I not even be electropolishing. I HAVE ti use the nitric acid, as my lab is not set up for sulphuric or perchloric.
If I am supposed to see grain boundaries, but since I do not, what should I try to change?
Thank you for your help.
I want to passivate the PbS crystal by an organic ligand like Formate. My atomic simulation does not converge and it's because I have not used proper molecular structure.
In the first 3 periods of the periodic table of elements, we use the octet rule. in the TM and Columns 3 to 12 we use the 18 electron rule. But I have no idea that what rule or method should I use for the Pb(Lead) + S(sulfur) + organic(formate) combinations.
thank you for your time
Any international body that provide environment pollution data !!
In literature we have MXenes like Ti3C2 and Ti4N3 which are based on carbon and nitrogen and also there are 50 different kind of MXenes synthesized till now with different metals. What about other MXenes : MXenes of phosphor , sulfur etc .
Hi, I came across a sample of sulfur powder but it does not dissolve in CS2. What is the possible reason?
I am trying to create sulphur doped rGO nanosheets ..it is possible to do so with rGO powder than GO powder .?
Elemental sulfur(cyclic structure S8) is able to react (ring opening) with organic molecule to form polymers through inverse vulcanization, but the polymers are dark in color, what is the reason for it?
Want to introduce sulfonic acid group in the seven hydroxyl group of diosmetin, use sulfur trioxide complex, concentrated sulfuric acid does not react
Does anyone know the cause or the mechanism of this reaction

Sulphate composts are useful for alkaline soils. There are huge amount of sulfur production during refinery processes. Sometimes these amounts of sulfur can not be directly used and should be converted into some other by-products. What is the easiest way to convert organic S into SO4 compost?
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I have prepared hetero-atom-doped carbon dots (Nitrogen with sulfur, boron, phosphorous) for the eradication of biofilm of drug-resistant bacteria. But, I did not see any bacterial death at low concentrations when I am using doped carbon dots. Should I change any parameters or something else?
I took RAMAN spectrum of Sulfur and carbon composite for lithium sulfur batteries. Carbon is loaded with sulfur. i searched literature but i could not find data about Raman peak at 800.