"I'm going to melt the sulfur. ...The ...sulfur has molecules whose formulae are S8 ...They're pocket rings. They're like little crowns. ...[W]hen you get to roughly 160°C ...they break up ...and they start making a . They polymerize, like a plastic. ...I'm going to pour it into some cold water. ...like golden syrup. ...It's what we call plastic sulfur. ...[I]t's neither a liquid nor a solid."
Sulfur

January 1, 1970

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