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Which element is called brimstone?
Sulfur was historically called brimstone. (The "brim" part is from an old word meaning "burn", since elemental sulfur can occur as a rock-like substance that does, in fact, burn.)
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Brimstone is the old name for which chemical element?
Brimstone is the same thing as Sulfur
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What element gives brimstone its bad smell?
Sulfur does. It appears in the form of a compound with oxygen: sulfur dioxide.
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Do the properties of the elements within a period vary from element to element?
Yes, the properties of the elements within a period vary from element to element. For example, the metallic character decreases and the non-metallic character increases from left to right within a...
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How many solid elements liquid elements and gaseous elements are there?
At room temperature, there are 11 gases, and they are hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, fluorine, chlorine, and all 6 inert gases, helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon and radon. It is mercury and bromine...