if sulphuric acid is the king of chemicals then which is its opposite?
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This depends on why sulfuric acid is "king".  In industry, sulfuric acid is the most used chemical by weight (other than water).  The opposite, "the serf" or "fool" would be a chemical rarely used.  The choices are too numerous to list.
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Every acid has one thing in common - it liberates hydrogen in a reaction.  Thus HCl(Hydrochloric acid)  H2SO4 (sulfuric), CH3COOH (acetic)
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sulphuric acid ------- king of acids\npreparation ---------- contact process\nfor making it dilute we must put acid to water and not water to acid as it may explode \nit is used as a dehydrating agent
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Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have discovered the world's strongest acid. Remarkably it is also the gentlest acid. This non-toxic and non-corrosive acid may have a role in processes such as improving the quality of gasoline, developing polymers and synthesising pharmaceuticals.\n\nHow can an acid be both strong and gentle? The answer lies in the way chemists define the strength of an acid. Acid strength is the ability of an acid to add a hydrogen ion (H+) to basic molecules. On the other hand, corrosiveness has a lot to do with the nature of the negatively charged part of an acid that always accompanies H+.\n\nFor example, hydrofluoric acid (HF) dissolves glass because the fluoride (F-) part of the acid attacks the silicon atom in silica glass at the same time that H+ attacks an oxygen atom, according to UC Riverside Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Christopher Reed, one of the authors of the findings.\n\nAnother example is the choice of an acid to clean lime deposits from inside a copper kettle, he pointed out. The wise homeowner chooses hydrochloric acid not nitric acid because the chlorine part of hydrochloric acid does not attack copper whereas the nitrate part of nitric acid would dissolve the kettle in a mess of toxic brown fumes.\n\nThe findings were published in Angewandte Chemie in a paper titled 'The Strongest Isolable Acid', co-authored with Reed, UCR Colleagues Mark Juhasz, Stephan Hoffmann and Kee-Chan Kim, and Evgenii Stoyanov of the Boreskov Institute of Catalysis in Novosibirsk, Russia.\n\nThe new 'strong-yet-gentle' acids are called carborane acids. The secret to their strength is twofold. Most importantly, the carborane part of the acid is an extremely weak base (ie, weakly alkaline), and carboranes have extraordinary chemical stability.\n\nThey have an icosahedral arrangement of eleven boron atoms plus one carbon atom, which is probably the most chemically stable cluster of atoms in all of chemistry, according to Reed. This means that the carborane part of the acid cannot participate in the chemistry of corrosion and decomposition that fluoride and nitrate show in hydrofluoric acid and nitric acid. As a result, carborane acids can add hydrogen ions to weakly basic molecules without destroying the often delicate positively charged molecules that are formed. This is the essence of their strong-yet-gentle qualities, Reed added.\n\nExamples of molecules that add a hydrogen ion and are stabilised with a carborane as the negatively charged part of the product include benzene to give benzenium ion, C60 to give 'protonated buckyball,' and alkenes to give carbocations.\n\nNone of these positively charged molecules had been 'put in a bottle' at room temperature before because the acids used previously would decompose them. The strong-yet-gentle carborane acids overcome this difficulty, allowing chemists to take a closer look at important molecules whose existence was typically fleeting, Reed said. Acidified molecules are important short-lived intermediates in a huge variety of acid-catalysed chemical transformations including the digestion of food, gasoline improvement, polymer formation and the synthesis of pharmaceuticals.\n\nHow strong are carborane acids? The strongest one is at least a million times stronger than concentrated sulfuric acid (H2SO4) and hundreds of times stronger than the previous record holder, fluorosulfuric acid (HFSO3).
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Do you mean mercury sulphite?
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its dilute h2so4 (38%) sulphuric acid.
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A pure substance can be a chemical combo of two elements. So if you know chemistry, and you think about all the possible combos there are, there are quite a few million out there.
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carboxylic acid, as represented by -(C=O)-OH. For more info, check the source.
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6 moles of hydrochloric acid will react at a faster rate than 1 mole of hydrochloric acid because the solution will not dilute as fast as the smaller amount of acid- more acid to react with the Zinc.\n\nSounds good to me...
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He could apply a base to the letters.  Acids and bases are opposite and neutralize one another.  If he added the correct base, the acid would be neutralized and would not erode the letters.
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Date: Mon Nov 15 22:43:44 1999\nPosted By: Tye Morancy, MadSci Admin\nArea of science: Chemistry\nID: 942629613.Ch Message:\n\n\nHi Nathan,\n\n   That's a cool question to ask...\n\n   The strongest acid on earth is a 80% solution of Antimony Pentaflouride in \nHyrdoflouric Acid.  This acid solution is so strong that they could only \nmeasure a 50% solution.  Just to give you an idea of how strong a 50% solution \nis, it would be equivalent to an acid 1018 times stronger than concentrated \nsulfuric acid!!  Pretty strong huh?\n\n   By the way, this acid is listed in the Guiness Book of World Records as the \nstrongest acid known.\n\n   Thanks for the question Nathan...\n\nTye
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It is actually a very strong acid which has a pH value of less than 2...I think it is 0 or 1. Sulphuric acid can cause acid rain which destroys our environment. To recover those destruction, it has an effect in the economy of the place or a country. Besides acid rain, acids react with metal which corrodes them or makes them rusty.. This might lead to more damage of pipes which eventually might burst if there is excess. To repair them also has an economical effect. These are the disadvantages....however, ont he bright side, sulphuric acid can be used to neutralize alkali. this is a way to save the environment and money. However, sulphuric acid can be expensive sometimes...(not sure)..
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Any acid, for example:\n\nHCl + H2O  --> Cl- + H3O+
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sulfuric acid is the way to go.  \n\nwarms up the inside as you drink it.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulphuric_acid
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Acidic.  Citric acid.
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Theoretically this would yield H2SO4, sulphuric acid (c).\n\nIn praxis, SO3 doesn't dissolve well in water and is prone to dissociate into SO2 and 1/2 O2, which then may form sulphurous acid H2SO3 which in turn will re-oxidize to H2SO4.