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 ...

I'll be making test tube liquid rockets. I first need a really strong oxidizer and I'm using pure nitric acid. Now all I need to do is all a fuel to it, and I'm using something called aniline. This ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A "malfunction" at a Greene County chemical plant sent two plumes containing nitric acid into the surrounding air Sunday morning, raising concerns among some neighbors, officials said. The Austin ...

Getty Images Sulphuric and nitric acid from the burning of fossil fuels fell as acid rain "In the '80s, essentially the message was that this was the largest environmental problem of all time ...