Each year, there is more sulfuric acid produced in the United States than any other chemical. |
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This material was incorrectly termed nitrocellulose and was created by a reaction between nitric acid, sulfuric acid, and cellulose. |
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Johann Doebereiner,, a German chemist accidentally discovered furfural in 1832 when he treated sugar with sulfuric acid and manganese dioxide. |
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It's hit or miss as to whether you'll get a view of the volcano's sulfuric craters, because of cloud cover, fog, and haze. |
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The sodium formate is then carefully treated with sulfuric acid at low temperatures and distilled in a vacuum to yield formic acid. |
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Ethanol can be chemically oxidized using a mixture of concentrated sulfuric acid and sodium dichromate. |
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When glycerol is treated with a mixture of sulfuric and nitric acid, a yellow oily liquid nitroglycerin is formed. |
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He also devised portable hydrogen-gas generators that combined sulfuric acid and iron shavings to produce combustible gas. |
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The alchemists called sulfuric acid oil of vitriol, a reference to its corrosive nature. |
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You may not get a view of the volcano's sulfuric craters because of cloud cover, fog, and haze. |
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Cellulose reacts with nitric and sulfuric acids to produce cellulose nitrate. |
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The oils are first reacted with sulfuric acid, which converts them into sulfates. |
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Too much of one of the compounds may result in unwanted bitter, rancid, or sulfuric tastes. |
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Your lungs may be exposed to pollutants such as ozone, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, and sulfuric acid. |
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Generally, however, carboxylic acids are not as chemically active as the nonorganic mineral acids, such as hydrochloric acid or sulfuric acid. |
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Hydrogen chloride is prepared by reacting sodium chloride with concentrated sulfuric acid. |
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Briefly, the washed hair was digested in an alkaline solution, complexed by cysteine, urea, and cupric ion, then acidified with sulfuric acid. |
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We measured unconjugated, glucuronic acid-conjugated, and sulfuric acid-conjugated cresols in the patient's biological fluids. |
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The breath sample is bubbled in one vial through a mixture of sulfuric acid, potassium dichromate, silver nitrate and water. |
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These materials are reacted with sulfuric acid, then neutralized, and converted to a salt. |
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When alkyl hydrogen sulfates are added to water, sulfuric acid is recovered and the product obtained from the alkene is an alcohol. |
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At the same time they would like to regenerate the sulfuric acid to minimize costs. |
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This lachrymator dissolves in eye fluids and produces small amounts of irritating sulfuric acid. |
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One popular explosive for industrial use is made from fertilizers like ammonium nitrate or urea, fuel oil, and nitric or sulfuric acid. |
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The electrodes are immersed in aqueous sulfuric acid, which acts as the electrolyte. |
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Common oxidants include the halogens, oxygen, ozone, potassium permanganate, potassium dichromate, nitric acid, and concentrated sulfuric acid. |
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The calcium tartrate is neutralized by the addition of sulfuric acid to produce calcium sulfate and tartaric acid. |
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I held the saturated bisulfite solution at arms length and slowly added the sulfuric acid. |
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Light olefins from the fluid catalytic cracker are processed in either hydrofluoric or sulfuric acid units. |
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For example, toxic materials such as lead, sulfuric acid, and mercuric sulfide were used. |
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Just as sulfur forms sulfurous and sulfuric compounds, phosphorus forms phosphorous and phosphoric compounds. |
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He invented a method for producing sodium hydroxide from chalk, salt, sulfuric acid, and coal. |
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For example, a mixture of concentrated nitric and sulfuric acids will nitrate benzene. |
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When nitrobenzene is nitrated with nitric and sulfuric acids, for example, 93 percent of the substituted groups end up at meta positions. |
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A nitronium ion, made by treating nitric acid with sulfuric acid, is the electrophile. |
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Organic sulfates are esters and are formed by reacting an alcohol with cold sulfuric acid or by the reaction of sulfuric acid with a double bond in an alkene. |
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If excess methanol is heated with concentrated sulfuric acid one molecule of water is eliminated form two molecules of methanol to produce dimethyl ether. |
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The alloy also resists sulfuric acid and pure phosphoric acid. |
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A week of tramping for miles underground and sleeping in limestone catacombs tunneled out by sulfuric acid is not everyone's idea of happy camping. |
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Another characteristic of most metals is that they liberate hydrogen gas when they are reacted with dilute hydrochloric acid or dilute sulfuric acid. |
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Nearly all manufactured products that we use today, like gasoline, detergents, and batteries, depend in some way on sulfuric acid for their production. |
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Hard coat anodizing should not be confused with sulfuric anodizing, which places a very thin coating of aluminum oxide on the surface of the aluminum surface. |
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The sulfuric acid removes the alcohol from the air into a liquid solution. |
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The most regularly employed oxidizing agent for this set of reactions is a mixture called chromic acid, a mixture of sodium or potassium dichromate and sulfuric acid. |
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In this method, sulfur dioxide gas and air are converted catalytically into sulfur trioxide, a gas that combines explosively with water to form sulfuric acid. |
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If excess methanol is heated with concentrated sulfuric acid one molecule of water is eliminated from two molecules of methanol to produce dimethyl ether. |
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They found that these nonaqueous-superacid solutions reacted with weak bases which did not react with either sulfuric or perchloric acid in water. |
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In the past, the evolution of sulfur dioxide from roasting facilities was a major cause of acid rain, but most sulfur dioxide is now captured and used to make sulfuric acid. |
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Repeated occupational exposure to sulfuric acid mists may increase the chance of lung cancer by up to 64 percent. |
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It does not react with hydrofluoric, hydrochloric, hydrobromic, hydriodic, sulfuric, or nitric acid. |
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The reactions in the battery between lead, lead dioxide, and sulfuric acid provide a reliable source of voltage. |
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Strong acids, such as hydrochloric or sulfuric acid, can remove the passivating layer and subsequent reaction with water releases hydrogen gas. |
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The sulfur dioxide is used for the production of sulfuric acid, which is necessary for the leaching process. |
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Before the spike in diversity, eukaryotes are thought to have lived in highly sulfuric environments. |
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Technetium dissolves in aqua regia, nitric acid, and concentrated sulfuric acid, but it is not soluble in hydrochloric acid of any concentration. |
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It is also used in the catalytic conversion of sulfur dioxide into sulfur trioxide in the production of sulfuric acid. |
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The mine's upper half is studded with hollow lead protuberances, each containing a glass vial filled with sulfuric acid. |
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Earlier forms of the detonator employed a vial of sulfuric acid surrounded by a mixture of potassium perchlorate and sugar. |
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Silk is resistant to most mineral acids, except for sulfuric acid, which dissolves it. |
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Some important acids, such as sulfuric acid and phosphoric acid can furnish more than one proton and are called polyprotic acids. |
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One of the first chemicals to be produced in large amounts through industrial process was sulfuric acid. |
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It is widely produced with different methods, such as contact process, wet sulfuric acid process, lead chamber process and some other methods. |
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As an acid, sulfuric acid reacts with most bases to give the corresponding sulfate. |
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Similarly, reacting sulfuric acid with potassium nitrate can be used to produce nitric acid and a precipitate of potassium bisulfate. |
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However, concentrated sulfuric acid is a strong oxidizing agent and does not react with metals in the same way as other typical acids. |
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Pure sulfuric acid is not encountered naturally on Earth in anhydrous form, due to its great affinity for water. |
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Prior to 1900, most sulfuric acid was manufactured by the lead chamber process. |
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Another important use for sulfuric acid is for the manufacture of aluminium sulfate, also known as paper maker's alum. |
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Moreover, as concentrated sulfuric acid has a strong dehydrating property, it can remove tissue paper via dehydrating process as well. |
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This process allowed the effective industrialization of sulfuric acid production. |
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Today, nearly all of the world's sulfuric acid is produced using this method. |
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All the sulfoxides formed a bright blue colored solution with concentrated sulfuric acid. |
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In contrast, addition of water to concentrated sulfuric acid results in a thin layer of water on top of the acid. |
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Heat generated in this thin layer of water can boil, leading to the dispersal of a sulfuric acid aerosol or worse, an explosion. |
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The oxidation of sulfides leading to the formation of sulfuric acid can also be one of the corrosion factors in karst formation. |
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There have been reports of sulfuric acid ingestion leading to vitamin B12 deficiency with subacute combined degeneration. |
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The sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide dissolve and over a period of approximately 30 minutes the sulfur dioxide is oxidized to sulfuric acid. |
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The internal lead sheathing served to contain the corrosive sulfuric acid and to render the wooden chambers waterproof. |
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Sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide are absorbed in the liquid and react to form sulfuric acid and nitric oxide. |
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Nitrogen dioxide is hydrated to produce nitrous acid which then oxidizes the sulfur dioxide to sulfuric acid and nitric oxide. |
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The prize was awarded to Nicolas Leblanc for a process which used sea salt and sulfuric acid as the raw materials. |
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Sodium carbonate is used by the cotton industry to neutralize the sulfuric acid needed for acid delinting of fuzzy cottonseed. |
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In 1791, the French chemist Nicolas Leblanc patented a process for producing sodium carbonate from salt, sulfuric acid, limestone, and coal. |
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The sodium chloride is initially mixed with concentrated sulfuric acid and the mixture exposed to low heat. |
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The neutrality of such solutions reflects the fact that sulfate is derived, formally, from the strong acid sulfuric acid. |
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The rock is mixed with sulfuric acid to form a mixture of calcium sulphate and phosphoric acid. |
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Contaminants found at Superfund sites include arsenic, asbestos, barium, cadmium, carbon tetrachloride, lead, mercury and sulfuric acid. |
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The collodion is derived from a flammable compound known as guncotton dissolved in sulfuric and nitric acids. |
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The dam gave way after failing to withstand the pressure of waste from the treatment of apatites and phosphorites with sulfuric acid. |
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With the new technology, peroxymonosulfuric acid can be produced without hydrogen peroxide but by electrolyzing the sulfuric acid. |
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The sulfuric acid in volcanic aerosols is the result of not one reaction but a series of reactions involving sulfur dioxide, oxygen and water. |
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In acetolysis the specimen is treated with acetic anhydride and sulfuric acid, dissolving cellulistic materials and thus providing better visibility for palynomorphs. |
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Because of such reasons, damage posed by sulfuric acid is potentially more severe than that by other comparable strong acids, such as hydrochloric acid and nitric acid. |
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Sulfuric acid is a very important commodity chemical, and indeed, a nation's sulfuric acid production is a good indicator of its industrial strength. |
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Infrared spectra taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft show distinct absorptions on Jupiter's moon Europa that have been attributed to one or more sulfuric acid hydrates. |
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Because the hydration of sulfuric acid is thermodynamically favorable and the affinity of it for water is sufficiently strong, sulfuric acid is an excellent dehydrating agent. |
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Because the hydration reaction of sulfuric acid is highly exothermic, dilution should always be performed by adding the acid to the water rather than the water to the acid. |
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Commercial sulfuric acid is sold in several different purity grades. |
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They are now obsolete as commercial concentrations of sulfuric acid, although they may be prepared in the laboratory from concentrated sulfuric acid if needed. |
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In England, he attempted to implement his theories commercially through a fertilizer created by treating phosphate of lime in bone meal with sulfuric acid. |
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It was the first practical production of sulfuric acid on a large scale. |
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The large production of sulfuric acid as an industrial chemical is primarily due to its use as cheap acid in processing phosphate rock into phosphate fertilizer. |
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When it reaches the stratosphere, it turns into sulfuric acid particles, which reflect the sun's rays, further reducing the amount of radiation reaching Earth's surface. |
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This is due to the optical properties of SO2 and sulfate aerosols, which strongly absorb or scatter solar radiation, creating a global layer of sulfuric acid haze. |
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Combustion of fossil fuels generates sulfuric, carbonic, and nitric acids, which fall to Earth as acid rain, impacting both natural areas and the built environment. |
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The sulfuric acid is regenerated and recycled to the leaching step. |
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Alkenes engage in an acid catalysed hydration reaction using concentrated sulfuric acid as a catalyst that gives usually secondary or tertiary alcohols. |
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Meanwhile, the oxygen atom has lone pairs of nonbonded electrons that render it weakly basic in the presence of strong acids such as sulfuric acid. |
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Following proper safety precautions, pour out a small amount of fuming nitric acid and fuming sulfuric acid into separate labeled vials while under the fume hood. |
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Sulfuric acid, oleum, chlorosulfonic acid, fluorosulfonic acid, amidosulfonic acid, free sulfur trioxide and its complexes, halogen derivatives of sulfuric acid, etc. |
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