sulphuric acid

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sulphuric acid

noun sulphuric acids · sulfuric acid

  1. UK, countable, uncountable A colourless highly corrosive liquid, H₂SO₄. In the case of nitric acid, however, the employment of the aræometer introduces far greater errors than when it is used for sulphuric acid, hydrochloric acid, and in most other cases, as the concentrated nitric acids as a rule always contain nitrogen tetroxide in solution, the quantity being seldom

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@misc{sulphuric_acid_2026,
  title = {sulphuric acid},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sulphuric%20acid},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}