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PRINS et al.1–4 have shown, using X-ray diffraction, that fibrous sulphur (Sψ) is made up of a long-chained polymeric component (Sμ) together with a crystalline allotrope (Sγ). Prins et al.2 have also proposed a model for the polymer in which the sulphur atoms are arranged in a helical structure with 3 atoms per turn; later, Prins and Tuinstra3 suggested the possibility of a spiral superstructure of these helices, with a longitudinal repeat distance of 78 Å.
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JASKOLSKA, A., PRESLAND, A. Microstructure of Fibrous Sulphur. Nature 208, 1088–1089 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/2081088a0
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