What happens when hot sulphuric acid is added to sulphur?

There are several sulphuric compounds in the atmosphere: sulphur dioxide (SO 2 ), sulphur trioxide (SO 3 ) – we can group these two chemical species as SO x – hydrogen sulphide (H 2 S), carbonyl sulphide (COS), carbon disulfide (CS 2 ), and sulpha... read more

Sulphur is oxidised to sulphur dioxide by hot and concentrated sulphuric acid, and the acid also gets reduced to the same product (sulphur oxide) by sulphur. read more

b Add a 23 cm depth of dilute hydrochloric acid to the first three tubes, and a 23 cm depth of dilute sulfuric acid to the remaining three tubes. c Add a small piece of a different metal to each of the tubes with hydrochloric acid in them. Record which metal you add to each tube. read more