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Sulfur

Z: 16
Mass: 32.06
Lifeforce: Water
In the body: muscle, liver

The stone the alchemists called brimstone, the one that reeks of rotten eggs, is holding your hair in shape right now. You carry around 140 grams of it, in countless bridges between your proteins.

A still bowl on a stone catches rain, overflows and waters young sprouts. — Plate · Water Water grasps at nothing. It *receives*, until the bowl overflows and feeds.

Sulfur. Element sixteen. The yellow stone the alchemists called brimstone. Smells of rotten eggs. Forms bridges in proteins that give your hair its shape.

Lab note · Atomic number 16; ≈140 g in the body, bound in the cysteine bridges of the proteins.

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Where your atoms come from

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Forged in the cores of living stars over billions of years of stellar fusion.

14 of the 118 elements share this origin.

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