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Sulfur
- Z
- 16
- Mass
- 32.06
- Lifeforce
- Water
- In the body
- muscle, liver
The stone the alchemists called brimstone, the one that reeks of rotten eggs, is holding your hair in shape right now. You carry around 140 grams of it — in countless bridges between your proteins.
Sulfur. Element sixteen. The yellow stone the alchemists called brimstone. Smells of rotten eggs. Forms bridges in proteins that give your hair its shape.
Lab note · Atomic number 16; ≈140 g in the body — bound in the cysteine bridges of the proteins.