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Sulfur (S) or sulphur is the nonmetallic chemical element of Group 16 or VIA (Chalgens family) of the periodic table. Pure sulfur is a yellow color, tasteless, orderless, brittle solid, poor electrical conductor, and insoluble in water, uses widely for manufacturing sulfuric acid for the chemical industry. In 1809, the French chemists Louis-Joseph Gay-Lussac and Louis-Jacques Thenard discovered that the chemical elemental sulfur present in nature. It forms a large number of allotropes with puckered rings or long-chain sulfur atoms. In chemistry, except for gold and platinum, sulfur reacts with most of the elements to forms a large number of metallic and nonmetallic chemical compounds. Sulfur has four stable isotopes like 32S, 33S, 34S, and 36S.