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Meanings of sulphuric acid in English

Portuguese
acido sulfurico
Catalan
àcid sulfúric
Wikidata

A highly corrosive acid made from sulfur dioxide; widely used in the chemical industry.

acido sulfurico
Usage of sulphuric acid in English
1
Beet: phosphates, fourteen; potash, forty-nine; soda, nineteen; lime, six; sulphuric acid, five.
The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots / 16t...
2
Turnip: phosphates, thirteen; potash, thirty-nine; soda, five; lime, ten; sulphuric acid, fourteen.
The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots / 16t...
3
The great saving in sulphuric acid, amounting to about 50 per cent.
Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891
4
Then he covered it with dilute sulphuric acid through the funnel tube.
The Dream Doctor
5
He obtained by this process acetate of methyl and ethyl sulphuric acid.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883
6
Alkalinity and causticity are tested with a standard solution of sulphuric acid.
Steam, Its Generation and Use
7
Strong acids, such as sulphuric acid and nitric acid, also dissolve it.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot
8
But his humour is bitter as gall, and corrosive as sulphuric acid.
Maxim Gorki
9
All these precipitates redissolve with an excess of acid, sulphuric acid excepted.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881
10
When heated with concentrated sulphuric acid for some time, they are sulphonated.
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
11
When sulphuric acid has been taken, use very little water if any.
Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets / Or, A ...
12
But the formation of sulphuric acid gas may be the same in each.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XV...
13
The presence of sulphuric acid in potash alum was known to the alchemists.
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
14
The water holds the fumes, and can be used in making sulphuric acid.
Diggers in the Earth
15
Repeat the same experiment, placing the untwisted yarn in sulphuric acid.
Textiles, for Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools ...
16
Strong sulphuric acid was very effectual in rendering the platina active.
Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1
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