{"id":47518,"date":"2024-07-06T04:26:53","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T04:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=47518"},"modified":"2024-07-06T04:27:24","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T04:27:24","slug":"chemistry-sulfur-or-sulphur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/chemistry-sulfur-or-sulphur\/","title":{"rendered":"Chemistry: sulfur or sulphur?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about chemistry: the tutor mentions the name for element 16.<\/h2>\n<p>\nI recall hearing that &#8220;sulfur&#8221; was an Americanization of the correct name &#8220;sulphur&#8221; for element 16 on the Periodic Table of the Elements. However, as of 1990, &#8220;sulfur&#8221; is the correct name, according to the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. As I understand, IUPAC is the authority on how to name things in chemistry.<\/p>\n<p>So, &#8220;sulfur&#8221; it is:)<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/nchem.301\">nature.com<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about chemistry: the tutor mentions the name for element 16. I recall hearing that &#8220;sulfur&#8221; was an Americanization of the correct name &#8220;sulphur&#8221; for element 16 on the Periodic Table of the Elements. However, as of 1990, &#8220;sulfur&#8221; is &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/chemistry-sulfur-or-sulphur\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chemistry: sulfur or sulphur?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3228,41],"class_list":["post-47518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","tag-iupac","tag-nomenclature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47518"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47522,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47518\/revisions\/47522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}