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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sulfuric

"of, pertaining to, or obtained from sulfur," also sulphuric, 1790, from French sulfurique; see sulfur + -ic. The spelling with -ph- is standard in Britain.

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sulfuric

a. (context American spelling chemistry English) Of, or relating to sulfur, especially in its higher oxidation state

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sulfuric

adj. of or relating to or containing sulfur; "sulphuric esters" [syn: sulphuric]

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Stage Four sulfuric acid caves cut across all three earlier stages of cave development.

He rarely ventured into the sulfuric atmosphere, and Dunking Deep Space Ltd.

Brady looked nervously up the hill as his assistant washed the plate in the collodion solution, a mixture of guncotton and sulfuric ether and alcohol.

Off to the right were things that might have been Solvay Process towers for sulfuric acid, and a glittering horror of a neo-Roman administration-and-labs building.

Even after all these years, the air in the complex was tainted with the acrid scent of chemicals, as if decades' worth of nitric acid, sulfuric acid, ammonia, mercury, and a host of esters and alcohols had permanently stained the air.

They are sulfuric acid, the result of combining sulfur dioxides and water.

But we'd be outside, in a cloud of sulfuric acid droplets that was nearly a hundred degrees Celsius, more than fifty kilometers above the ground.

The potassium ethoxide will neutralize the sulfuric acid creating potassium sulfide in the process.

You take a 98percent concentration of fuming nitric acid and add the acid to three times that amount of sulfuric acid.

Sulfuric acid has an absorption feature, determined by infrared spectroscopy, at a wavelength of 11.

What passes for air on Venus has layers of red mercuric sulfide and mercurous chloride in the lower reaches, and when you get above them to those pretty fluffy clouds tourists see on the way down, you find that some of them are droplets of sulfuric and hydrochloric and hydrofluoric acid.

It contained lead tubes inset with copper disks of varying thickness, a glass jar full of oily-looking sulfuric acid, and another jar that held a powdery, yellowish substance, presumably picric acid.

The said property was a vast creaking warehouse in the northern district that stored barrels of sulfuric acid, salt, gasoline, bicarbonate of soda, and potassium permanganate.

Here on Venus we were in the middle of a thick cloud of sulfuric acid droplets.

The clouds of Venus turn out to be chiefly a concentrated solution of sulfuric acid.