3LEGGEDSQUIRREL Posted July 20, 2016 Posted July 20, 2016 I have a Newbie question guys. There is a place next to a river down the road from my house where there is tons of sulfur for the taking. Is this the type to use when making BP? Is this acidic? Or is this what I need to mill for preparation. Im not sure if this is elemental sulfur or not. I'm afraid this form might be a byproduct of something else and may not be as pure as I want.
Seymour Posted July 20, 2016 Posted July 20, 2016 (edited) It is pretty hard to know when all we know is that you found it "down the road" and the fact that it seems to have once been molten. However the sulfur requirements for BP are not very exact. It will almost certainly work excellently for BP. The acid is mostly a safety issue with chlorates, although highly acidic sulfur will also corrode some metals (Fe, MgAl for example) faster if in a composition containing them. My suggestion is that is is almost certainly going to be good for BP. Just don't use this BP to prime chlorate stars until you know it is low acid, and even then, there are safer ways to prime chlorate stars. Edit: Since it has been outside, by a river, I would assume it has been wetted lots, and it is moisture that reacts with sulfur making acid. While it can do this from moisture in the air, getting rained on won't help. However it still won't matter for BP. Make sure it doesn't have bits of rock or metal shavings in it, and you should be fine with BP. Edited July 20, 2016 by Seymour 1
3LEGGEDSQUIRREL Posted July 20, 2016 Author Posted July 20, 2016 Thanks Seymour. It burns a beautiful blue, almost invisible, unless its completely dark. The only impurities seem to be inside the cracks. I will record some burning tonight with one of my thermal cameras to find out more.
FlaMtnBkr Posted July 20, 2016 Posted July 20, 2016 Do you live close to the gulf coast or a petroleum refining plant you know of? Probably a by product of crude oil and should be low acid. Need to verify that if you use it for things besides BP.
3LEGGEDSQUIRREL Posted July 20, 2016 Author Posted July 20, 2016 I live in East Texas. I found out that a feed mill paid the land owners to dump the excess sulfur they had in the 1970's. Who knows why or what they used it for. I think its a go. I have a couple of more test to do. It should be a pretty site when it gets milled down and cleaned. Updates coming....
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