A new astrochemical model aims to shed light on the universe's missing sulfur. The model suggests that sulfur may be present in a form that is difficult to detect, specifically in icy dust grains within dense, cold molecular clouds. This theory aligns with a long-standing hypothesis that has been proposed to explain the discrepancy between the expected and observed amounts of sulfur in these clouds.

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