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ArticleNature communications2025

Missing interstellar sulfur in inventories of polysulfanes and molecular octasulfur crowns.

Ashanie Herath, Mason McAnally, Andrew M Turner, Jia Wang, Joshua H Marks, Ryan C Fortenberry, Jorge C Garcia-Alvarez, Samer Gozem, Ralf I Kaiser

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Interstellar Ice Chemistry Yields Elusive Sulfinothioic Acid (HS(O)SH).Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Ashanie HerathDepartment of Chemistry, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0005-0757-7288
Mason McAnallyDepartment of Chemistry, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0000-7799-9914
Andrew M TurnerDepartment of Chemistry, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, USA.
Jia WangDepartment of Chemistry, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3795-8699
Joshua H MarksDepartment of Chemistry, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, USA.
Ryan C FortenberryDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, USA. r410@olemiss.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4716-8225
Jorge C Garcia-AlvarezDepartment of Chemistry, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0276-531X
Samer GozemDepartment of Chemistry, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA. sgozem@gsu.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6429-2853
Ralf I KaiserDepartment of Chemistry, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, USA. ralfk@hawaii.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7233-7206

Funding

NSF | Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences | Division of Astronomical Sciences (AST) NSF-AST 2103269
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The disparity between predicted sulfur abundances and identified reservoirs of sulfur in cold molecular clouds, also known as the sulfur depletion problem, has remained an ongoing debate over decades. Here, we show in laboratory simulation experiments that hydrogen sulfide (H

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