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The sulphur cycle involves the movement of sulphur between living and nonliving parts of the environment. Sulphur is found in rocks and a small amount in the atmosphere from fossil fuel combustion. Sulphate from weathered rocks is taken up by plants and incorporated into proteins, passing to animals through food chains. Decomposition by bacteria returns sulphur to the environment as hydrogen sulphide, which can convert back to sulphate or elemental sulphur incorporated into rocks by bacteria.

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Sulphur Cycle: Mihir Babaria - 4 Rahul Doshi - 59

The sulphur cycle involves the movement of sulphur between living and nonliving parts of the environment. Sulphur is found in rocks and a small amount in the atmosphere from fossil fuel combustion. Sulphate from weathered rocks is taken up by plants and incorporated into proteins, passing to animals through food chains. Decomposition by bacteria returns sulphur to the environment as hydrogen sulphide, which can convert back to sulphate or elemental sulphur incorporated into rocks by bacteria.

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SULPHUR CYCLE

MIHIR BABARIA 4 RAHUL DOSHI 59

WHAT IS SULPHUR CYCLE?


The cycling of sulphur between the biotic (living) and abiotic (nonliving) components of the environment. Most of the sulphur in the abiotic environment is found in rocks, although a small amount is present in the atmosphere as sulphur dioxide (SO2), produced by combustion of fossil fuels. Sulphate , derived from the weathering and oxidation of rocks, is taken up by plants and incorporated into sulphur-containing proteins.

In this form sulphur is passed along food chains to animals. Decomposition of dead organic matter and faeces by anaerobic Sulphate-reducing bacteria returns sulphur to the abiotic environment in the form of hydrogen sulphide (H2S).

Hydrogen sulphide can be converted back to sulphate or to elemental sulphur by the action of different groups of photosynthetic and sulphide-oxidizing bacteria. Elemental sulphur becomes incorporated into rocks.

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