When regular cleaning just won't do, extreme measures are taken. Watch as we tackle the toughest grease and stains on a loader using dangerous acid. This intense cleaning process cuts through layers ...

Experts have taken action to make safe barrels of an explosive acid, owned by a defunct pharmaceutical firm, that were found at a warehouse. About 300kg of picric acid was found at the unit near ...

The synthesis is pretty straightforward, if a bit dangerous. An excess of sulfuric acid is added to potassium nitrate, and more or less pure nitric acid is distilled away from the resulting ...

Acids have a sour taste – but it is much too dangerous to taste a liquid to find out if it is an acid! So, other ways of detecting acids need to be used. Strong acids such as hydrochloric acid ...

“I can’t imagine anything that could make these products any more dangerous than they already are ... was found to also contain 510 parts-per-trillion (ppt) perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and 680 ppt ...