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 ...

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 ...

This is called also indigotic acid, from being produced by the action of diluted nitric acid upon indigo. Carbonic acid is produced with it, and remains in solution, the anilic acid separating it ...

Grupa Azoty S.A. (Tarnów, Poland) has commissioned the fifth line of its nitric acid installation, marking the completion of ...