What happens when you mix Oxygen and Sulfur?

A blue flame! Sulfur burns

Sulfur burns with a pretty blue flame, joining with oxygen to make sulfur dioxide gas.

The result

What it makes
Sulfur dioxide
Equation
S + O₂ → SO₂
When it happens
With a spark or a flame

Fun fact from Fizzy: Volcanoes puff out tonnes of sulfur dioxide!

🥽 Sulfur dioxide is a choking gas. Never breathe it in.

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