When you dilute sulfuric acid with water, you get battery acid. That’s what Metro Detroit community of New Baltimore nearly created in its water supply accidentally last month, due to a labeling ...

Each year, billions upon billions of tons of CO2 are pumped into the atmosphere. A significant proportion of this ends up in Earth’s oceans, where it can react with water to form carbonic acid, which ...

Welcome to science world. Now everyone loves a wee bag of chips, don’t they? Maybe a wee pasty or a battered sausage and if you’ve any sense you’ll cover it in a bit of vinegar. But did you know that ...

The direct transformation of cellulose, which is the main component of lignocellulosic biomass, into building-block chemicals is the key to establishing biomass-based sustainable chemical processes.

Students will be able to plan and carry out an investigation to identify which two of the three ingredients in baking powder react to produce a gas when water is added. Students will be able to ...

Carboxylic acids can carry out the same reactions as other acids, for example the reactions with metals and metal carbonate. Carboxylic acids are weak acids, and will react more slowly than other, ...

Tourism promoters charge people $2 apiece to look at the most notoriously polluted mining site in Montana, an old copper pit filled with toxic water that will likely never be cleaned up. The Berkeley ...

Life as we know it needs water, but life as we don't know it may run on concentrated sulfuric acid. The chemistry of life as we know it wouldn't work in a place like the huge Saturn moon Titan, where ...