[TheForge] Drilling angles etc/ now sulfur

Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer artgawk at thegrid.net
Sat Mar 14 00:00:19 EDT 2009



Bruce Freeman wrote:
> Peter,
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> Wonderful information.
> The "creamy" consistency of the melted sulfur suggests to me that it
> had not undergone rearrangement from the yellow S8 to the  red poly-S.
>  Interesting.
> Careful with the roofing application.  As you mention, sulfur is not
> fire resistant.

I'm partly red-green colorblind so my observations may be wrong but i 
don't recall anything other that yellow plus additives at any 
temperature below pouring temperature.
The folks who were experimenting with it were making roofs of palm 
fronds soaked in molten sulfur and layed up hot.
Yes, it sure does burn, and it;s not all that easy to put out..nasty fumes!
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