A Mirror investigation today reveals the sickening damage corrosive substances can inflict. The Government last week tightened controls over the use of sulphuric acid, with thugs caught with it now ...

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 fuels and ...

An acid and alkali will neutralise each other and produce a salt and water. This is called a neutralisation reaction. The name of the salt produced can be worked out from the names of the acid and the ...

Two types of acid-base titration stand out: alkalimetry and acidimetry. Each method provides a precise means to measure compounds based on their acid or basic content, depending on the type of the ...

Welcome to science world. Now everyone loves a wee bag of chips, don’t they? Maybe a wee pasty or a battered sausage and if you’ve any sense you’ll cover it in a bit of vinegar. But did you know that ...

Acid rain is now caused by nitric rather than sulfuric acid--and it comes from more sources than the earlier acidic precipitation did The acid rain scourge of the '70s and '80s that killed trees and ...