sulfuric acid

     

10 °C, 283 K, 50 °F

Trivia about sulfuric acid

  • A dilute solution of this acid forms the electrolyte in a lead-acid car battery
  • Don't plan a Europan vacation--Jupiter's moon Europa is awash in this, also called battery acid
  • This acid is the electrolyte in a lead-acid battery
  • (Jimmy of the Clue Crew experiments in the Babcock Hall Dairy Plant.) The Babcock test, invented here at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, uses this potent non-potable, H2SO4, to dissolve everything in milk except the fat, so the fat content can be measured
  • A 19th century German chemist noted that a nation's wealth can be gauged by the amount it uses of this, H2SO4
  • (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from inside Carlsbad Caverns Nat'l Park, New Mexico.) The immense chambers in the cave at Carlsbad Cavern are the result of the aggressive dissolution of limestone by this acid, H2SO4

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