Elastic rubber-like sulfur

Abstract

When a thin stream of molten sulfur, superheated above 400°, is poured into liquid air, the sulfur is obtained in the form of very thin threads, 0.5-1 mm in diameter. The threads taken out of liquid air are at first quite solid and brittle, but then, as soon as the temperature rises somewhat, they acquire an extraordinary elasticity, similar to the elasticity of rubber. The more easily it is to obtained a substance in a gelatinous or glassy state, the more capable it is of forming various modifications. Sulfur is the most typical example of such substances.

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