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It is easily produced by igniting a mixture of zinc and sulfur. Since zinc sulfide is insoluble in water, it can also be produced in a precipitation reaction. Solutions containing Zn 2+ salts readily form a precipitate ZnS in the presence of sulfide ions (e.g., from H 2 S). Zn 2+ + S 2â â ZnS. This reaction is the basis of a gravimetric analysis for zinc.
Nitrogen is the anomaly, along with oxygen, because first row elements can form stab;e [math]\pi[/math] bonds. Sulfur is isoelectronic to oxygen, just as phosphorus is to nitrogen. But sulfur and phosphorus cannot form stable [math]\pi[/math] bonds to themselves, and so they exist as single bonded allotropes. S2 and even P2 exist, but only transiently because they are quite unstable with respect to single bonded forms.