Just wondering, whats the best way to make ammonium sulfide from solid sulfur?

H2S is a little hard to produce. I did hear that letting match heads sit in ammonia for a while produced the (NH4)2S I'm looking for, and I'm assuming that it's the sulfur in matches that causes this.

Match heads usually contain phosphorus sesquisulfide, the only RP on matches is on safety match STRIKERS, not the heads.

H2S can be made by dripping acid onto a sulfide, AlS is one of the best to use, but I am pretty confidant it can be done fine with pyrites.

Be careful, it is really nasty stuff, by the time you realise, you may not be able to smell it, as it anaesthetizes the sense of smell, so you think its gone, but oops! stil there, your dead in a heap on the floor

Just be careful.

It works for making ammonium sulfide, I made the selenide the same way.

AlS

Al₂S₃?

hm well H2S may not be the way to go.. know of any other easily obtainable or makeable sulfides that can be used with ammonia?

Well, instead of going through all the work of producing a toxic gas I decided to trash the experiment. Right when I was going to throw away the jar of sulfur sitting in ammonia I decided to throw in a little aluminum powder just to see what would happen.  As luck may have it I'm getting a good  slow amount of bubbling coming out of the mixture of sulfur and Al powder. Probably not anything along the lines of getting the sulfur reduced but can anyone explain the reaction?

Hmm nevermind I finally did it anyway. I used the Al2S3 that was mentioned in an earlier post by igniting sulfur and Al powder and then immersing an excess of it in an ammonia solution, waited for it to all settle, decanted off the liquid from the solids and Al(OH)3 gel and voila! (NH4)2S!

The whole purpose of making this was to get a souluble sulfide for my ions collection, and since NaOH has dissappeared off of shelves NH3 seemed like my next best bet. If I wanted a stink bomb I woulda stopped at Al2S3. Much easier to handle, much stinkier, and much much safer when you can wiegh it all out and predict how much gas is going to be formed, but remember kids H2S can kill, so use dog excretment.