If you've noticed that your car has thick smoke coming out of the exhaust pipe, it may be a sign that your engine needs some attention. Just like you can examine an animal's stool to get an idea of its health, you can pay attention to the quality of your car's exhaust to get an idea of what's going on inside the engine.
The word sulfur has old roots. It comes from the ancient Latin word for sulfur, sulpur, which later changed to sulphur, perhaps under the influence of the Arabic word for yellow, sufra.
Sulfur was known to ancients many centuries B.C.E. and they had different names for it. It's given name comes from the Latin. Antoine Lavoisier was the man who, in 1777, helped convince the scientific community that sulfur was not a compound as was thought, but was actually an element.ulfur was discovered around 500 BC. Edit. Share to: 1  Sulfur Crystals: History and its Uses Sulfur is a chemical element that is widely abundant in nature. 2  It is classified as a multivalent non-metal. 3  Sulfur's symbol is S and its atomic number 16.