Sulfur

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Sulfur (== Template:IPA

The Template:IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) is a system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin alphabet. It was devised by the International Phonetic Association in the late 19th century as a standardized representation of the sounds of spoken language.

Pronunciation

The pronunciation of the term "IPA" is /aɪ piː eɪ/ in English.

Etymology

The term "IPA" is an acronym for the International Phonetic Alphabet. The International Phonetic Association, founded in 1886, created the IPA to provide a single, universal system for the transcription of spoken language.

Related Terms

  • Phonetic notation: A system used to visually represent the sounds of speech. The IPA is one type of phonetic notation.
  • Phonetics: The study of the physical sounds of human speech. It is concerned with the physical properties of speech sounds (phonemes), and the processes of their physiological production, auditory reception, and neurophysiological perception.
  • Phonology: The study of the way sounds function within a particular language or languages. While phonetics concerns the physical production, acoustic transmission and perception of the sounds of speech, phonology describes the way sounds function within a particular language or languages.
  • Transcription (linguistics): The systematic representation of spoken language in written form. The source of the words transcribe and transcription, the term means "to write across" in Latin, and it's the process of converting spoken language into written form. In linguistics, this is often done using the IPA.

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Sulfur, also known as sulphur in British English, is a chemical element with the symbol S and atomic number 16. It is abundant, multivalent, and nonmetallic.

Etymology

The word sulfur comes from the Latin sulphur, which was Hellenized to sulphur. The spelling sulfur appears toward the end of the Classical period. The true Greek word for sulfur, θεῖον, is the source of the international chemical prefix thio-.

Related Terms

  • Sulfur cycle: The collection of processes by which sulfur moves between rocks, waterways and living systems.
  • Sulfur dioxide: A toxic gas with a burnt match smell, released by volcanoes and in various industrial processes.
  • Sulfuric acid: A strong acid produced by oxidizing solutions of sulfur dioxide, used in large quantities as an industrial and laboratory reagent.
  • Sulfate: A salt or ester of sulfuric acid, containing the anion SO4²⁻ or the divalent group —OSO3.
  • Sulfide: A binary compound of sulfur with another element or group.

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