Atomic For Sulfur

I, Karl Loren, have studied and written about atomic phenomenon for many years. One of the most popular treatments of atomic physics on the web is MY page, you can view it here.

I have also gathered more information about MSM, undoubtedly, than any other single website in the world -- and have information regarded as "secret" by many of those who DO know the information about how, for instance, MSM is manufactured -- the two US manufacturers are very deceptive in this regard. Click here for references to more than 80 of my Web Pages, out of more than 150 pages, with data about MSM.

Click here for another set of references to Sulfur on Karl's pages.

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The simple "Atomic Model" of sulfur, below, may not be technically accurate, but it has been used so much in the past for showing a substance that it is worth taking a look at it here:

In this image the yellow balls are individual ATOMS of Sulfur -- one of the basic elements. Sulfur does not usually exist as a single atom, but combines with other atoms of Sulfur to form a crystal.

Crystals have "shapes" and the crystal of sulfur has a shape called "orthorhombic."

Orthorhombic crystals are often shaped like rhombic prisms or dipyramids (two pyramids stuck together). They often look a bit like tetragonal crystals except that they are not square in cross section (when you look at the crystal on end).

That shape can be illustrated as follows: It is like to pyramids stuck together at their bases.

The crystal of pure sulfur has ONLY the atoms of sulfur, but pure sulfur is NOT the form of nutrient which is useful to the skin.

When an animal is found to be eating "sulfur" the actual fact of that eating is that there is, indeed, sulfur in the plants being eaten by the animal, but plants are the mechanism by which a pure element can be absorbed into the living plant, other elements combined with it, such as carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, and you then have a MOLECULE, not an atom.

The MOLECULE used in our creams is shown below -- it is called Methyl Sulfonyl Methange -- often abbrevited as MSM widely used for pain relief, but also widely understood to be extremely beneficial in the horse world -- where expensive race horses and breeding horses are fed MSM powder in their drinking water to build up the health of their hair and hooves.

This is accurately referred to as "organic sulfur" for two reasons: 1) It has atoms of carbon and 2) this form of sulfur generally only is manufactured inside a living plant and thus comes from "plants" (actually trees) which have processed raw sulfur and combined it with carbon, oxygen and hydrogen to make the molecule.

This is the mechanical/atomic process by which this substance becomes non-toxic and, in fact, quite therapeutic for animals as well as humans.

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Sloppy studies of the Moreno Sheep (or other animals) will often refer to "sulfur" as the substance which makes the skin, hooves or hair very healthy. When you look into these studies you find that it was "organic sulfur" that did this -- in the form presented to the animal in the food he ate (the plants converted elemental sulfur into organic sulfur).

Model of the MSM Molecule

About the model: The carbon atoms are black. In a single hydrocarbon molecule there would normally be four hydrogen atoms (white) with each carbon atom, but in this case of a dimethyl compound each hydrocarbon molecule loses one hydrogen atom in order to form a more complex molecule with a sulfur atom (yellow) that carries two oxygen atoms (red).

The model is not "anatomically" correct, by any means. Those colored spheres and the white connectors, and how they are joined, have no relation to the actual structure of an MSM molecule. So it's not really a model, is it? I'd call it a crude graphic representation of the elements that are present in one molecule of this compound.

Courtesy of Al Ramirez, Texas!

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