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.