How to Use sulfuric acid in a Sentence

sulfuric acid

noun
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  • The vog's sulfuric acid droplets would fall, too -- thus, acid rain.
    — Jason Hanna, CNN, 10 May 2018
  • Creeks still get mucked up with iron and sulfuric acid from old mines.
    — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Apr. 2021
  • Those clouds are made mostly of sulfuric acid, which would seem to argue against the Venus-life idea.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Still, even in this Venus sweet spot, the CO2-heavy atmosphere exists, and clouds are made of sulfuric acid.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 4 Aug. 2023
  • For example, radar is needed to pierce the opaque, sulfuric acid clouds and see the surface.
    — Paul K. Byrne, The Conversation, 23 Aug. 2019
  • This happens when the sulfuric acid droplets become too large to stay in the atmosphere.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Cheap gins were vile home brews, made with turpentine and sulfuric acid and sold from rank nooks and cellars.
    — Jeffrey Collins, WSJ, 23 June 2023
  • The sulfur would be burned and mixed with water to produce as much as 5,800 tons of toxic sulfuric acid each day.
    — Daniel Moore, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Its cloud layers are packed with sulfuric acid—enough to chew through skin, bone and metal in moments.
    — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 2 June 2021
  • Choked by a smog of sulfuric acid and scorched by temperatures hot enough to melt lead, the surface of Venus is sure to be lifeless.
    — Bypaul Voosen, science.org, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Of the 41 Superfund sites -- places storing sulfuric acid, heavy metals and waste oils -- that were in the storm's path, 13 were flooded.
    — CBS News, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Venus is a dead realm choked with carbon dioxide, lead-melting heat, and sulfuric acid rain.
    — Dave Mosher, Popular Mechanics, 4 June 2012
  • The sulfuric acid droplets act as a veil on the Earth's lower atmosphere, absorbing hear high in the stratosphere.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 27 Apr. 2023
  • On her birthday this year in June, Khan was attacked with sulfuric acid and suffered burns to her left eye, face, shoulder, arms, and legs.
    — Rosemary Donahue, Allure, 11 Sep. 2017
  • But Venus’s atmosphere is so acidic, with clouds made of droplets of sulfuric acid, that any phosphine would be quickly zapped.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2020
  • When sulfuric acid was added to the mixture, water was forced under pressure onto the fire.
    — Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland, 12 Feb. 2020
  • The sites contain everything from sulfuric acid to heavy metals to waste oils.
    — Emily Atkin, New Republic, 8 Sep. 2017
  • The 60-year-old line had deteriorated due to a buildup of sulfuric acid and might have been strained by the series of storms that hit the region last week.
    — Christian Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2022
  • Both the sulfuric acid and the lead plates are reusable with only a modest amount of processing.
    — Mike Allen, Popular Mechanics, 9 Oct. 2018
  • The lithium will be extracted by mixing clay dug out from the mountainside with as much as 5,800 tons a day of sulfuric acid.
    — New York Times, 6 May 2021
  • The Highlands Acid Pit site near Chandler's home was filled in the 1950s with toxic sludge and sulfuric acid from oil and gas operations.
    — CBS News, 2 Sep. 2017
  • The Highlands Acid Pit site near Chandler’s home was filled in the 1950s with toxic sludge and sulfuric acid from oil and gas operations.
    — Michael Biesecker, The Seattle Times, 2 Sep. 2017
  • Many car batteries are filled with a mixture of water and sulfuric acid.
    — Alex Leanse, Popular Mechanics, 23 Dec. 2016
  • Trump's action could push the Earth over the brink, to become like Venus, with a temperature of 250 degrees and raining sulfuric acid.
    — Juliana Rose Pignataro, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Officials have called for tougher sentences, and restrictions on the sale of sulfuric acid.
    — Ellen Barry, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2017
  • In 1782, Carl Wilhelm Scheele stirred a pot of Prussian blue with a spoon coated in traces of sulfuric acid and created cyanide, the most potent poison of the modern era.
    — Benjamín Labatut, Harper's Magazine, 28 Sep. 2021
  • The dense clouds of sulfuric acid only serve to make the planet more intimidating.
    — Nola Taylor Redd, Smithsonian, 15 Mar. 2017
  • Wreathed in corrosive sulfuric acid, Venus is not the swampy jungle sci-fi writers once imagined.
    — Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2020
  • The atmosphere is filled with carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide, and sulfuric acid rain clouds cover the skies.
    — Debbie G. Senesky, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
  • In particular, where is the trailer that contained 3 tons of sulfuric acid?
    — Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 14 Mar. 2018

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