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i got some natural sulfur crystals from a mineralogist friend and, considering that sulfur is a component of gunpower, and also i'd read that eskimos once rubbed sulfur onto quartz crystals before...

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careful there dude, sulpher is not something ya want in your lungs it can choke you up pretty bad and fast. it was a componant of some of the poison gasses used in the WW1 I believe, that and chlorine...

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my nose certainly found that to be the case... i've also heard that sulfur can be used as a topical medicine, but can't remember any more than that...

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I am not sure what they do to make it sulfa powder but yes it is a topical disinfectant and antibiotic. it is sprinkled all over the wound and then the wound is covered. it also seems to make the...

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Down in the southern states ,it's used as a dusting agent on your socks, to keep the chiggers out,!!..it works,,,,,,,,,,,,isn't sulphur in matches,??C

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When I was a kid, my friend and I almost burned his garage down. We were playing with his chemistry set. For some reason, we had little pieces of branch coral, and were dipping the coral into some...

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My dad talks of keeping sulphur near the fireplace during the New England winters when he was a boy. If a chimney fire started they threw sulphur on the fire. It created so much smoke that it...

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i really like the topic...sulpher. i believe egg yolks also have a high concentration of sulpher in them...when they're dried--they stink! wonder if you could use the yolks as survival sulpher?

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When I was a kid, I'd take a coin and wrap a piece of electrical tape around it to form a cylinder. Then melt sulfur in a test tube and pour the liquid sulfur into the cylinder. When it cools the top...

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I don't know if they are still around but we used to buy sulfur candles at the hardware store for riding the house of critters and bugs when I was a kid.What you did was light the candle which was set...

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Raw sulphur was used by people called  Saami (Scandinavia) in small spoon (svavelslev) like a tinder. Also used on tip of wooden sliver like a modern match.I don´t know how exactly it was used, but I...

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Here are sulphur spoons from - Nordiska museet - Stockholm

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My little video with suphur spoon. Albert

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The sulfur spoons were used to make sulfur matches. You heat the sulfur over a hot coal and dip strips of birch bark or wood splints into the liquid sulfur. It will harden quickly. To light the match...

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Sulfur in a fire piston? Not sure what to think of that? I used to live in east Texas near Beaumont and there were literally mountains of the stuff. You could find bowling size chunks all up and down...

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No on sulfur in fire piston!!!!! I take a tiny coal from fire piston and use it to ignite sulfur match

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