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Is sulfur a ionic compound

Updated: 9/18/2023
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No, sulphur is an element. Sulfur can form an unusually broad variety of molecules consisting of nothing but sulfur atoms, but all of them are covalent.

You generally only get ionic compounds if your reactants are a metal and a non-metal. If not, then it's probably covalent.

For example, zinc sulphide (ZnS) is an ionic compound, because you're combining a metal (zinc) with a nonmetal (sulphur). On the other hand, sulphur dioxide (SO2) is a covalent compound, since both reactants are nonmetals.

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