Blog: 2026-09-17

Conflicting claims on wikipedia:

• Sulfur forms over 30 solid allotropes, more than any other element.
  • Steudel, Ralf; Eckert, Bodo (2003). Solid Sulfur Allotropes Sulfur Allotropes. Topics in Current Chemistry. Vol. 230. pp. 1–80. doi:10.1007/b12110. ISBN 978-3-540-40191-9.
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur

• The element sulfur exists as many allotropes. In number of allotropes, sulfur is second only to carbon.
  • Greenwood, Norman N.; Earnshaw, Alan (1997). Chemistry of the Elements (2nd ed.). Butterworth-Heinemann. ISBN 0-08-037941-9.
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allotropes_of_sulfur