Chemistry Question #880
sarah gubbs, a 19 year old female from quebec asks on August 17, 2002,
If I had two unlabelled bottles one containing dilute nitric acid and the other containing dilute sulphuric acid how would I tell them apart?
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The answer
Reg Mitchell
answered on August 29, 2002
Drop in a penny; copper dissolves quickly in nitric acid, slowly (if at all) in sulfuric
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