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SULFURIC ACID
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sulfuric acid mean?
• SULFURIC ACID (noun)
The noun SULFURIC ACID has 1 sense:
1. (H2SO4) a highly corrosive acid made from sulfur dioxide; widely used in the chemical industry
Familiarity information: SULFURIC ACID used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(H2SO4) a highly corrosive acid made from sulfur dioxide; widely used in the chemical industry
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Synonyms:
oil of vitriol; sulfuric acid; sulphuric acid; vitriol
Hypernyms ("sulfuric acid" is a kind of...):
acid (any of various water-soluble compounds having a sour taste and capable of turning litmus red and reacting with a base to form a salt)
Meronyms (substance of "sulfuric acid"):
atomic number 16; S; sulfur; sulphur (an abundant tasteless odorless multivalent nonmetallic element; best known in yellow crystals; occurs in many sulphide and sulphate minerals and even in native form (especially in volcanic regions))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sulfuric acid"):
battery acid; electrolyte acid (dilute sulfuric acid used in storage batteries)
Context examples
An aluminum salt of sulfuric acid, an industrial chemical used in many industrial applications.
(Aluminum Sulfate, NCI Thesaurus)
The exact composition of Cancell/Entelev is unknown, but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has listed the components as inositol, nitric acid, sodium sulfite, potassium hydroxide, sulfuric acid, and catechol.
(Cancell, NCI Thesaurus)
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