It isn't really crystal clear the place the name "sulfur" arises from. It could be derived from "sufra," or "yellow" in Arabic. Or it could be in the Sanskrit "shulbari," which suggests "enemy of copper.allotropyOrthorhombic sulfur has a ring of eight sulfur atoms at Just about every lattice position. Rhombohedral sulfur has 6-membered rings.Sulfur