If there’s a chemical with a cooler name than “fuming nitric acid,” we can’t think of it. Nearly pure nitric acid is useful stuff, especially if you’re in the business of making rocket ...

FOR the analysis of the nitrate content of sea water, and for certain tests on alkaloids, it is necessary to have sulphuric acid free from all but the most minute amounts of nitric acid.

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The dissolution kinetics of nuclear fuel in nitric acid is a critical area of research, particularly for the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel. Understanding how different materials dissolve in ...

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Concentrated nitric acid is a highly corrosive, smoke-like liquid, colorless to yellow, with a boiling point of 83 degrees Celsius and a freezing point of 2 degrees Celsius. This acid is the most ...

The process involved looks to recover copper and nitric acid from copper nitrate, a common waste byproduct of processing metal. While a process called thermal decomposition exists to accomplish ...

Common cotton is one of the forms of lignine, which is a compound of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen (the same as wood), but when subjected to the action of nitric acid, nitrogen enters into its ...

Let's look at three metals reacting with three acids. Magnesium plus nitric acid gives us magnesium nitrate. Calcium plus hydrochloric acid gives us calcium chloride. And zinc plus sulphuric acid ...