“This is different from potassium, which always remains a potassium ion as it passes ... So agricultural soils might contain 200 lb. to 1,000 lb. of mineral sulfur in a 6" acre slice.

But when a fluid containing sulfur is added, gold strongly prefers to bond with three sulfur ions (an ion is an atom or molecule with a net electrical charge) to form a gold-trisulfur complex.

But sulfur has a tendency to react with itself, producing ions that can float off into the electrolyte. Plus, like any electrode material, it tends to expand in proportion to the amount of lithium ...