Over 90 percent of the sulfur used is converted to sulfuric acid ,but other industrial uses abound.Some of these are in the manufacture of wood pulp. carbon disulfide, insecticides.fungicides,bleaching agents, vulcanized rubber, detergents, pharmaceuticals. And dyestuffs among some new uses being studied are (a) as an extender for paving asphalt,(b) sulfur concretes and motars (c) plant and soil treatment, (d) sulfur-alkali metal batteries,and efoamed sulfur insulation