Why do you get a pungent odour when a sulphur containing substance is burnt?

All the substance smell the same when burnt

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Because the substance gets heated up to smell like that.

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Because sulphur dioxide is formed

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Because of the carbon present in the substance

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Solution

The correct option is C Because sulphur dioxide is formed
When a sulphur containing substance is burnt it reacts with oxygen present in the atmosphere to form sulphur dioxide. Hence the peculiar smell.

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