Question

What happens when sulfur and iron are heated?

Answer 1

Heating sulfur and iron

• When sulfur powder and iron filings are mixed together and heated, they undergo a chemical reaction to give Iron(II) sulphide as the product.

Chemical Reaction

• The reaction of sulfur and iron is as follows,

$\mathrm{S}\left(\mathrm{s}\right)+\mathrm{Fe}\left(\mathrm{s}\right)\stackrel{\mathrm{heat}}{\to }\mathrm{FeS}\left(\mathrm{s}\right)$