sulphuric acid

How To Use sulphuric acid In A Sentence

• The amount of water vapour in a battery depends on the concentration of sulphuric acid in the solution.
• The amount of water vapour in a battery depends on the concentration of sulphuric acid in the solution.
• The most important of the salts, formed by the combinations of the sulphuric acid, are, first, _sulphat of potash_, formerly called _sal polychrest_: this is a very bitter salt, much used in medicine; it is found in the ashes of most vegetables, but it may be prepared artificially by the immediate combination of sulphuric acid and potash. Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments
• A wooden tank may be rendered capable of withstanding the effects of nitric or sulphuric acids by the following methods: -- Cover the inside with paraffin; go over the inside with a sadiron heated to the temperature used in ironing clothes. Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889
• By this method, sulpho-compounds of the glyceride are first formed, which readily emulsify with water, and, on treatment with steam, liberate fatty acids, the glycerol remaining partly in the form of glycero-sulphuric acid. The Handbook of Soap Manufacture
• Every textile amylaceous fiber is convertible into these forms, more or less, by strong sulphuric acid. Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886
• Sulphuric acid has also been supposed to be sometimes an ingredient of peat -- which combining with iron, (always present,) would favor sulphate of iron, or copperas, which is a poison to useful plants. Agricultural, Geological, and Descriptive Sketches of Lower North Carolina, and the Similar Adjacent Lands
• Harding would only have had at his disposal sulphuric acid, but by heating this acid with the neutral fatty bodies he could separate the glycerine; then from this new combination, he easily separated the olein, the margarin, and the stearin, by employing boiling water. The Mysterious Island
• Hydrochloric acid is sometimes replaced by nitric or sulphuric acid.
• A very similar condensation product was obtained by condensing sodium-_p_-hydroxybenzoate with formaldehyde and subsequent sulphonation with sulphuric acid. Synthetic Tannins