[ginganinja]

anybody know of a way to produce or extract sufur from any household items or from the ground

[Alberto_Kravina]

http://www.westga.edu/~chem/courses/desc.inorg/490Ja21b/sld020.htm

I don't think that elementar sulfur is very common in household products

[Mitch]

You might be able to find it at the local pharmacy, maybe.

[Alberto_Kravina]

...if you have the appropriate permission..I don't think that everybody can buy sulfur....

[ginganinja]

ya i didn really think so
ill just buy some in a garden centre

[Kenichi]

If you are from the US, i'd say  get it from Skylighter.com  They are the go to spot for all things pyrotechnics and they do good business.  Sulfur is one of their most popular products and they sell it with a 5lb minimum order.

[pantone159]

I've seen it in the pharmacy here in the USA.

[Donaldson Tan]

Shouldn't mountaineering or some outdoor equipment shop sell them?

You need sulphur to repel snakes, especially when you are setting up a camp site for the night.

[Borek]

You need sulphur to repel snakes, especially when you are setting up a camp site for the night.

Sounds like snake oil to me

[pantone159]

You need sulphur to repel snakes, especially when you are setting up a camp site for the night.

Sounds like snake oil to me

I've never heard of that.  I have run into snakes in the outdoors before, though, and I didn't have any sulfur with me.

[xxMIKExx]

Flowers of Sulfur is found in flower shops

[limpet chicken]

Yes, it is used for dusting flowers, and keeping away pests, stocked in garden centers, you will need to sublime it though, as it is impure.

And JESUS, that is one hell of a long rattlesnake, I wouldn't want to get bitten by that thing, timber rattlesnake? canebrake? or whats that other one, Crotalus horridus, whats the "common" name for that thing?

[pantone159]

timber rattlesnake? canebrake? or whats that other one, Crotalus horridus, whats the "common" name for that thing?

I figured that one was a Crotalus horridus, aka Timber rattlesnake.  What surprised me was that I found it in New England, which is not where I expected such snakes.  Supposedly, these things usually stay away from people, but this one didn't want to move out of the way.  (I think it was full.)

[limpet chicken]

I remembered the ones I was thinking of now, the diamondback(s) type, it LOOKS almost like a really dark tiger rattlesnake, but that banding is more typical of the darker canebrake rattlesnakes, the tiger rattler isn't very toxic, usually causing only local nastiness, but the canebrake, fairly nasty, more toxic than either species of diamondback, and although a subspecies of C.horridus, isn't treatable by the main polyvalent antivenom used against the timber rattler.