If there’s a chemical with a cooler name than “fuming nitric acid,” we can’t think of it. Nearly pure nitric acid is useful stuff, especially if you’re in the business of making rocket fuels and ...

Fuming nitric acid is one of the most reactive and dangerous substances in chemistry, used in rocket propellants, nitration reactions, and advanced research. The Deadly Wrong Turn That Doomed ...

SALT LAKE CITY – Two people are recovering after a chemical spill at the University of Utah. The red fuming nitric acid spill at the Emma Eccles Jones Medical Research Building forced evacuations ...

Royal Society, March 30.—“Contributions to the History of Orcin.—No. I. Nitro-substitution Compounds of the Orcins.” By John Stenhouse, LL.D., F.R.S. The action of nitric acid upon orcin has been ...

SIMSBURY >> To the untrained ear, Bill Newman seems to talk in code. Everything is turbine pumps and red fuming nitric acid and supersonic flight. Once Newman gets going, it’s hard to get him to stop ...