Your stomach contains hydrochloric acid, a highly corrosive chemical compound that can dissolve certain metals and would ...

Bradley Eyre received funding from the Australia Research Council. Carbonate sands on coral reefs will start dissolving within about 30 years, on average, as oceans become more acidic, new research ...

The most precise description ever obtained by experiment of exactly how an acid compound dissolves, molecule by molecule, will be published in the 4 October 2002 issue of the journal Science. In ...

Royal water, or better known for its Latin name Aqua regia, is a fuming, corrosive liquid solution first invented by an Arab alchemist back in the 8th century. It is a mixture of one part of nitric ...

The most common process by which limestone caves form involves carbonic acid — or weakly acidic groundwater — as the primary agent. When carbonic acid contacts limestone, it dissolves minerals in the ...

A move towards more alternative energy sources and away from fossil fuel production is a net positive for the world. But there’s an unanticipated side effect—a possible global sulfuric acid supply ...

Arrhenius, Brønsted-Lowry, Lewis… chemists have many ways to define and distinguish acids from bases. Forensic scientists have a way all of their own – how these substances destroy soft tissue, hair, ...

Piranha solution is nasty stuff. Composed of part sulfuric acid and part hydrogen peroxide, it eats through most organic matter with ease, and this hot dog shows that it’s frighteningly good at its ...

Salicylic acid has earned its reputation as one of dermatology’s most reliable acne-fighting ingredients not because of hype, ...

Remember that scene in the first season of Breaking Bad when Walter White and Jesse Pinkman need to dispose of a corpse, opting to use hydrofluoric acid? Turns out, as Agence France-Presse reports, a ...

Note: This release has been updated since its original posting. The most precise description ever obtained by experiment of exactly how an acid compound dissolves, molecule by molecule, will be ...