mixed acid

noun

, Chemistry.

1. any mixture of nitric acid and sulfuric acid, used as a nitrating agent in the manufacture of explosives, plastics, etc.

Example Sentences

Asked about his last science experiment, Brooks said, “I mixed acid and sulfurs to create an explosion. It first created a weird smell, warmed up and lit up. The fire department wasn’t called. Our teacher had to come over and put a fire extinguisher all over it.”

From Los Angeles Times

The cotton is then nitrated with 'mixed acid'—a mixture of about 16 per cent nitric and 75 per cent sulphuric acid and about 8 per cent water—at 15� to 25� C. After the nitration, the acid is removed and the nitrocotton boiled up in water to stabilize it.

From Project Gutenberg

Nitroglycerine.—Mixed acid, containing 41 per cent nitric acid and 57.5 per cent sulphuric acid, is brought to 22� C. by cooling coils of brine, and pure glycerine is injected into the acid at such a rate that no glycerine accumulates unchanged, and that the temperature is kept between 15� and 22� C. When all the glycerine has been added, the liquid is allowed to stand, and the nitroglycerine rises to the surface.

From Project Gutenberg

T.N.T. in the past has also been made discontinuously thus: The toluene is nitrated by mixed acid into either mono- or dinitrotoluene, which is then trinitrated.

From Project Gutenberg

Boston, the mixed acid went down that hole, or others like it.

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