The atmospheric effects of soot aerosols include interference with radiative transfer, visibility impairment, and alteration of cloud formation and are highly sensitive to the manner by which soot is internally mixed with other aerosol constituents. We present experimental studies to show that soot particles acquire a large mass fraction of sulfuric acid during atmospheric aging, considerably a...

Retinoic acid (vitamin A acid) (I) has long been recognized as one of the most interesting members of the retinoid family (1). A quantitation method of I was proposed by KAWASAKI et al. who estimated an absorptivity of coloration developed by 74% sulfuric acid (2). The color was found to be stable in sulfuric acid, persisting for several hours at room temperature, so they used the method for as...

Technologies to collect and reuse sulfuric acid waste is attracting attention to reduce industrial waste in semiconductor manufacturing plants. Reusing sulfuric acid has a high economic value. By using sulfuric acid recycling equipment based on an atmospheric distillation method, we evaluated the recovery percentage of sulfuric acid, the concentration and quality of recycled sulfuric acid, and ...

Milk samples can be efficiently digested using a focused microwave oven, however the conventional procedure of addition of concentrated acids to the liquid sample leads to digestates with elevated acidity and residual carbon concentrations. In this work a focused microwave oven was applied for acid digestion of bovine milk samples using a conventional and an alternative procedure based on gradu...

A simple procedure is reported for the preparation of crystalline mannuronic lactone from algin. The algin is converted to alginic acid, which is hydrolyzed by the action of concentrated sulfuric acid followed by dilute acid. In contrast to prior methods, the lactone is crystallized directly from the hydrolyzate of alginic acid without the intermediate separation of the amorphous barium salt or...

The atmosphere is an inhomogeneous system of vapors, and liquid as well as solid particles. The nucleation process is an important source of particles, observed at most sites where particle measurements have been carried out. Sulfuric acid plays an important role in the first steps of particle formation, but a complete picture of process, after several years of research, is still unclear. Compu...

It is well established that the bacterium Thiobacillus thiooxidans is capable of growing in very strong mineral acid solutions and of producing, from elementary sulfur, sulfuric acid solutions more concentrated than 1 N and a reaction considerably below pH 1. This organism had been considered unique in its tolerance to acid until Starkey and Waksman (1943) demonstrated that certain fungi, Acont...