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Uses Preserved dried fruits When burned, sulfur in this
candle drives away pests.

Vulcanized rubber – made
by heating sulfur with natural
rubber – is weatherproof.

Some dried fruits are preserved using
powder containing a sulfur compound. Sulfur candle The Oxygen Group

ACID RAIN

Sulfur dioxide gas produced by burning fuel
dissolves in rain water, making a sulfur acid.
This falls to the ground as acid rain.
3. Sulfur dioxide
2. The wind mixes with water in
1. Burning coal carries pollutants. clouds and forms
in power stations a sulfur acid.
Vulcanized tyre
releases sulfur
dioxide.

4. Acid rain
Creams that contain corrodes buildings
sulfur compounds and harms plants.
can disinfect skin.

This plant battery Lead acid
emits a 6. It also makes 5. Acid rain changes
rotting smell rivers and lakes acidic. soil chemistry.
to attract
meat-eating
insects. This battery contains
Skin cream Penicillin pills This limestone
strong sulfuric acid.
sculpture has
been weathered
by acid rain.
Titan arum

Acid rain Some antibiotics contain
destroys sulfur compounds that kill
harmful bacteria.
forests by
removing nutrients Sulfur acid
in the soil and in rain damage
the leaves.

minerals, such as celestine. Many sulfur flower. There are many uses for this non-metal.
compounds smell bad. For example, the rotten- Its compounds can harden natural rubber for
egg smell of volcanic pools is due to hydrogen use in tyres, preserve dried fruits, and make
sulfide gas. Other examples include skunk strong battery acids. The element has anti-
spray, the gaseous substance emitted by chopped bacterial properties and is used in antibiotic
onions, and the odour of the titan arum medicine, such as penicillin. 169

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