Sulfuric Acid
... Making of other chemicals Cleaning iron and gasoline. Industrial Uses In fact, sulfuric acid is used in the manufacturing of almost all manufactured goods. Sulfuric acid is produced in two ways. The first is called the lead chamber process. The second is called contact process. In the first, lead chamber, Sulfuric Acid is produced by taking sulfur dioxide gas and mixing it with nitric oxide and nitrogen dioxide gases. Sulfuric acid freezes at 10.5 degrees Celsius, and it boils at 338 degrees Celsius. The contact process produces Sulfuric acid by mixing air and sulfur dioxide, then pass the result over a catalyst (usually platinum) and then cooled and travel through a series of vents where it is mixed with oleum. Sulfuric Acid is produced all over the world and its waste is polluted into the air. There are two different types of Sulfuric acid that are the product of these products. They are concentrated, and the dilluted forms. Concentrated Sulfuric Acid, is used to chemically remove water from certain compounds. Why the diluted is not as strong. Sulfuric Acid has a very well long and established history. The acid was first recorded in the 1600's by Johann von Helmont who distilled ferrous sulfate. The first major industrial demands came in 1790, when Johann Glauber and Joshua Ward for made the compound commercially available. Since then the man-made compound has been in high demand all over the world. We use it in our daily lives and would not were we are today without it. The reaction for Sulfuric acid looks like this: ...