Sulfur on Aragonite

Item Description

Here we have a classic example of the famous, classic electric yellow colored Sulfur crystals from Cianciana, Sicily, Italy. This piece is filled with sharp, well-formed, glowing yellow color crystals of Sulfur with excellent internal gemminess when backlit sitting on soft grey colored Aragonite . The largest Sulfur measures 1.6 cm. There are some small nicks here and there, but t he piece has no major damage on the front/display side. A really showy and good quality display specimen of what are the most famous Sulfur crystals in the world. For reference, this species should be spelled S-U-L-F-U-R (not sulphur) as both the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry along with the British Royal Society of Chemistry adopted this spelling in the 1990s (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur#Spelling_and_etymology). Wikipedia also states that, "Sulfur is derived from the Latin word sulpur, which was Hellenized to sulphur in the erroneous belief that the Latin word came from Greek." From the collection of Colin Manlove.