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: historical information. 1  Discoveror: known since ancient times. 2  Place of discovery: not known. 3  Date of discovery: unknown. 4  Origin of name: from the Sanskrit word  sulvere  meaning  sulphur ; also from the Latin word  sulphurium  meaning  sulphur .