It also doesn't require water in the mixture, so astronauts could save their valuable water for drinking, crafting breathable oxygen and making rocket fuel. The Chandrayaan-3 lander, pictured as a ...

A mixture of iron filings and sulfur powder could be separated in exactly the same way. Image caption, ... Carbon and oxygen combine chemically to produce carbon dioxide.

This was achieved by developing a glassy mixture of boron, sulfur, lithium, phosphorus, and iodine.The latter proved to be ...

Sulfur is another element. It contains only sulfur atoms, and nothing else, so it is pure. When we mix two different pure substances together, like this, it’s a mixture.

India's Chandrayaan-3 rover has found sulfur on the moon's surface at higher concentrations than previously seen. Sulfur in soils near the moon's poles might help astronauts live off the land one day.

The sulfur melts at a low temperature, allowing the potassium perchlorate and anthracene to mix more thoroughly; sulfur also burns easily, encouraging the mixture to combust.

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More information: Yao Chang et al, Vacuum ultraviolet photodissociation of sulfur dioxide and its implications for oxygen production in the early Earth's atmosphere, Chemical Science (2023). DOI ...

It also doesn't require water in the mixture, so astronauts could save their valuable water for drinking, crafting breathable oxygen and making rocket fuel. The Chandrayaan-3 lander, pictured as a ...