How is sulfur made using only natural resources, but wihtout being near a volcano or hot spring?
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Sulfur can occur in solid deposits similar to coal or salt and can be mined. It also can be produced by converting hydrogen sufide found in some natural gas into simple sulfur.
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The only renewable mineral deposit that I saw I was in Andes (it was called 'salar '). The miners work this mine periodically (harvest), therefore it had thermal sources. This sources , deposit (all the time)  thermal waters, with same kind of minerals solved in it.\n\nRenewable mineral resources on to other planets? I don't know!
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sulfur- you can get it at the health food store with the homeopathic remedies
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The latest technology is bio extraction using plants and microbes to extract gold from the source rocks.\n\nI suggest that you go in for cyanide method. Not free cyanides but in the complexed form.
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These links give info on sulfate analysis:\n\nhttp://ecorestoration.montana.edu/mineland/guide/analytical/chemical/water/sulfate.htm\n\nhttp://www.csudh.edu/oliver/che230/labmanual/gravsulf.htm\n\nhttp://chemweb.calpoly.edu/chem/125/125LabExp/SulfateAnalysis/SulfateAnal.html
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I wanted to help you but I just wonder where the sulfur atom in SO2 comes from? Sulfuric acid, maybe, somewhere in your process? Or is it SeO2? These have to be clarified first to get a reliable answer.
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heat the pure gas in a sealed tube in absence of air. it breaks up into its components. you've got solid yellow sulphur.
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Volcanic soil is rich in minerals and, if there is enough rain, can be rich farmland.  Volcanoes created the Hawaiian Islands, so they produce real estate.  Volcanic rocks include pumice, used as an abrasive for swimming pools hand soap, and pre-weathered jeans, and obsidian, used by early humans to make sharp stone tools.  Also zeolites, used for a wide variety of things (see sources).  Some volcanic rocks are broken into pieces and used as a decorative groundcover in landscaping. Eroding volcanoes can produce sand, which has many uses.
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How was the electricity produced?  If it was from coal, then it is a dirtier form of energy than Natural gas.\n\nIt is more efficient to heat with natural gas than electricity.\n\nNormally, it is more efficient to cool with electricity than with natural gas.\n\nNatural gas is a non-renewable resource (at present).  Electricity can be produced by hydro-electric, coal, solar, wind, etc.\n\nHouses don't explode when they have an electricity leak, they can explode from a gas leak.
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Check out all the links I listed, you should enjoy...\n\nA volcano is an opening (or rupture) in the Earth's surface or crust, which allows hot, usually molten rock, ash, and gases to escape from deep below the surface. Volcanic activity involving the extrusion of rock tends to form mountains or features like mountains over a period of time.\n\nVolcanoes are generally found where two to three tectonic plates pull apart or are coming together. A mid-oceanic ridge, like the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, has examples of volcanoes caused by "divergent tectonic plates" pulling apart; the Pacific Ring of Fire has examples of volcanoes caused by "convergent tectonic plates" coming together. By contrast, volcanoes are usually not created where two tectonic plates slide past one another (like the San Andreas fault). Volcanoes can also form where there is stretching of the Earth's crust and where the crust grows thin (called "non-hotspot intraplate volcanism"), such as in the African Rift Valley or the European Rhine Graben with its Eifel volcanoes).\n\nFinally, volcanoes can be caused by "mantle plumes," so-called "hotspots;" these hotspots can occur far from plate boundaries, such as the Hawaiian Islands. Interestingly, hotspot volcanoes are also found elsewhere in the solar system, especially on rocky planets and moons.
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Hot springs occur near areas where magma (the stuff that makes volcanos erupt) is close to the surface. These are usually areas near volcanic regions.  Water from springs runs over the magma. It gets heated as it rises to the surface. They are more of a natural hot tub than anything else. People attribute medicinal properties to them. The water often has dissolved minerals in it. Some people drink it.
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Of course, it is a chemical reaction that causes ths to happen naturally.\n\nExpose the silver article to sulphur. SO2 would do the job most admiarably. Dipping it in egg yolk too - it is the sulphur that does the job.
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A lot of silly answers here. It does reac slightly to make calcium sulphate. Calcium sulphate is only slightly soluble and coats the limestone making a barrier between the limestone and the acid.
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It is indeed being done, and I have toured a geothermal plant in New Zealand.\n\nMost ways of generating geothermal power rely indirectly on the heat of the molten rock beneath the surface. This heat usually moves closer to the surface via fluids that travel up local networks of faults and fractures. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Geothermal_energy_methods.png for a simplified illustration of this.\n\nSee the wikipedia page, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal, for further discussion of the ways geothermal energy is extracted today.\n\nThe point made in the previous answer is also very valid. Powers at be favour the production of traditional energy via coal,oil and gas, and so a lot of money goes into extracting those and keeping them more economically viable that other alternative energy sources like Geothermal energy.
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Geothermal Natural Resources is relating to the internal heat of the earth. Natural resources is a material source of wealth, such as timber, fresh water, or a mineral deposit, that occurs in a natural state and has economic value.\nVolcano's are opening in the earth's crust through which molten lava, ash, and gases are ejected.  And similar opening are on the surface of other planets.   Mountains are formed by the materials ejected from a volcano.,trees and plants grow on the mountain. Coal in formed a natural dark brown to black graphitelike material used as a fuel, formed from fossilized plants and consisting of amorphous carbon with various organic and some inorganic compounds. Natural Gas the state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by relatively low density and viscosity, relatively great expansion and contraction with changes in pressure and temperature, the ability to diffuse readily, and the spontaneous tendency to become distributed uniformly throughout any container.
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Sulfur (Sanskrit, sulvere; Latin sulpur) was known in ancient times, and is referred to in the Biblical Pentateuch (Genesis). The word itself is almost certainly from the Arabic sufra meaning yellow, from the bright color of the naturally-occurring form.\n\nEnglish translations of the Bible commonly refer to sulfur as "brimstone", giving rise to the name of 'Fire and brimstone' sermons, which sinners are reminded of their fate of eternal damnation. It is from this part of the Bible that Hell is implied to "smell of sulfur", although as mentioned above sulfur is in fact odorless. The "smell of sulfur" usually refers to the odor of hydrogen sulfide, e.g. from rotten eggs. Burning sulfur produces sulfur dioxide, the smell associated with burnt matches.\n\nHomer mentioned "pest-averting sulfur" in the 8th century BC and in 424 BC, the tribe of Boeotia destroyed the walls of a city by burning a mixture of coal, sulfur, and tar under them. Sometime in the 12th century, the Chinese invented gun powder which is a mixture of potassium nitrate (KNO3), carbon, and sulfur. Early alchemists gave sulfur its own alchemical symbol which was a triangle at the top of a cross. In the late 1770s, Antoine Lavoisier helped convince the scientific community that sulfur was an element and not a compound. In 1867, sulfur was discovered in underground deposits in Louisiana and Texas. The overlying layer of earth was quicksand, prohibiting ordinary mining operations. Therefore the Frasch process was utilized.
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well in chemistry ...you have to test it out for an instance: what will happen to sulfur if i add water to it? It becomes a dangerous acid.\n\nwhat happens if i add water onto fire? it turns off. remember always to b careful