• A mineral acid (or inorganic acid) is an acid derived from one or more inorganic compounds, as opposed to organic acids which are acidic, organic compounds...
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    Nitric acid is the inorganic compound with the formula HNO3. It is a highly corrosive mineral acid. The compound is colorless, but samples tend to acquire...
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    and salts, strong mineral acids can directly be distilled. One important invention that resulted from the discovery of the mineral acids is aqua regia, a...
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    acid (American spelling and the preferred IUPAC name) or sulphuric acid (Commonwealth spelling), known in antiquity as oil of vitriol, is a mineral acid...
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    Perchloric acid is a mineral acid with the formula HClO4. Usually found as an aqueous solution, this colorless compound is a stronger acid than sulfuric acid, nitric...
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    boracic acid. It is usually encountered as colorless crystals or a white powder, that dissolves in water, and occurs in nature as the mineral sassolite...
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    anti form syn form Nitrous acid is usually generated by acidification of aqueous solutions of sodium nitrite with a mineral acid. The acidification is usually...
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  • Butyric acid Folic acid In general, organic acids are weak acids and do not dissociate completely in water, whereas the strong mineral acids do. Lower molecular...
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    examples of monoprotic acids in mineral acids include hydrochloric acid (HCl) and nitric acid (HNO3). On the other hand, for organic acids the term mainly indicates...
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    material. Levulinic acid is separated from the mineral acid catalyst by extraction. Levulinic acid is purified by distillation. Levulinic acid is used as a precursor...
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    reaction. Hydrofluoric acid was first prepared in 1771, by Carl Wilhelm Scheele. It is now mainly produced by treatment of the mineral fluorite, CaF2, with...
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    fluorescence, radioactivity, as well as its taste or smell and its reaction to acid. Minerals are classified by key chemical constituents; the two dominant systems...
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  • is 8.77 mol/L. Hydrobromic acid is one of the strongest mineral acids known. Hydrobromic acid is mainly used for the production of inorganic bromides...
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    Phosphoric acid is produced industrially by one of two routes, wet processes and dry. In the wet process, a phosphate-containing mineral such as calcium...
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    derived from conventional mineral acids, especially sulfuric acid, and the peroxy derivatives of organic carboxylic acids. They are generally strong...
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    Carbonic acid is a chemical compound with the chemical formula H2CO3. The molecule rapidly converts to water and carbon dioxide in the presence of water...
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    Hypophosphoric acid is a mineral acid with the formula H4P2O6, with phosphorus in a formal oxidation state of +4. In the solid state it is present as the...
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  • mostly fatty acids, that can be separated from a sample after splitting with a mineral acid, usually hydrochloric acid. The fatty acids most commonly...
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    carboxylate anion of lactobionic acid is known as lactobionate. As an acid, lactobionic acid can form salts with mineral cations such as calcium, potassium...
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    commonly as the (R)-enantiomer, but racemizes at 300 °C. When warmed with mineral acid, limonene isomerizes to the conjugated diene α-terpinene (which can also...
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  • Chelation (redirect from Chelated mineral)
    chelates such as ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) proved too stable and not nutritionally viable. If the mineral was taken from the EDTA ligand, the ligand...
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    hexafluorosilicic acid are often described as H 2SiF 6. Hexafluorosilicic acid is produced commercially from fluoride-containing minerals that also contain...
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    hypochlorous acid, producing chloric acid and hydrogen chloride: 3 HClO → HClO3 + 2 HCl Chlorate Hypochlorous acid Chlorous acid Perchloric acid Oxidizing acid Dichlorine...
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    surfactants and corrosion inhibitors are added to the acid. Hydrochloric acid is a common mineral acid typically used for concrete. Vinegar can also be used...
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    Hypochlorous acid is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula ClOH, also written as HClO, HOCl, or ClHO. Its structure is H−O−Cl. It is an acid that forms...
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    others of which are vitamins, essential fatty acids, and essential amino acids. The five major minerals in the human body are calcium, phosphorus, potassium...
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    sawdust, followed by acidification of the oxalate by mineral acids, such as sulfuric acid. Oxalic acid can also be formed by the heating of sodium formate...
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    Latin, "regal water" or "royal water") is a mixture of nitric acid and hydrochloric acid, optimally in a molar ratio of 1:3. Aqua regia is a fuming liquid...
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  • Hydrazoic acid used primarily for preservation of stock solutions, and as a reagent Hydrochloric acid a highly corrosive, strong mineral acid with many...
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    and steroid ketones. DDQ decomposes in water, but is stable in aqueous mineral acid. Synthesis of DDQ involves cyanation of chloranil. J. Thiele and F. Günther...
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