Some copper and zinc smelters have been forced to cut their output because they have run out of space to store hazardous sulphuric acid in the face of poor demand for the by-product and more may have ...

Antibiotics are an effective means of treating bacterial contamination. But extensive use of antibiotic substances in medicine and agriculture has resulted in increasingly antibiotic-resistant ...

A solution with a pH value which is less than 7 is acidic. The acids which react with metals usually have quite a low pH, of either 3 or less. Some metals react with acids and when they do the ...

Titanium has high resistance to oxidizing acids over a broad range of temperatures and concentrations. Standard acids in this group include nitric, perchloric, chromic, and hypochlorous (wet Cl 2) ...