: a corrosive liquid inorganic acid HNO3 used especially as an oxidizing agent, in nitrations, and in making organic compounds (such as fertilizers, explosives, and dyes)
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Another official said Immel was bound for a company in Theodore, Alabama. Medical expert explains exposure to nitric acid Buller said the nitric acid caused a small fire, which Tucson firefighters quickly extinguished.
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Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic, 16 Feb. 2023
These pollutants react with water, oxygen and other chemicals to form sulfuric and nitric acids, which then mix with water before falling toward the ground.
—Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 17 Feb. 2023
The agency later identified the hazardous material as nitric acid.
—Adela Suliman, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2023
Univar also stored chemicals next to each other that shouldn’t have been next to each other, like sulfuric acid next to potassium hydroxide and ammonium hydroxide and nitric acid next to potassium permanganate, ammonium persulfate, and hydrogen peroxide, according to the EPA’s allegations.
—Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Jan. 2023
Some of those emissions have been extremely dangerous—a Russian attack on an industrial facility in eastern Ukraine in April, for instance, released a cloud of dangerous, highly corrosive nitric acid—but health effects among civilians have gone largely unreported due to ongoing fighting.
—Time, 18 Oct. 2022
The Ukrainian governor of Luhansk on Tuesday urged residents to stay inside, shut windows and doors, and prepare wet face masks after a Russian strike hit a storage tank holding nitric acid near Rubizhne, which the Russians have been trying to seize.
—Oleksandr Stashevskyi, chicagotribune.com, 5 Apr. 2022
The Tucson Fire Department tweeted the hazardous material was nitric acid, described by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a highly corrosive material that can irritate one's skin, eyes and mucous membrane if exposed.
—Jose R. Gonzalez, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2023
The exposures that Rubicon has reported involved many hazardous chemicals used or manufactured at its Geismar plant, including ammonia, aniline, benzene, chlorobenzene, diphenylamine, hydrochloric acid, methylene diphenyl diisocyanate, nitric acid, nitrobenzene, phosgene and sulfuric acid.
—Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com, 3 Jan. 2021
Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic, 16 Feb. 2023
These pollutants react with water, oxygen and other chemicals to form sulfuric and nitric acids, which then mix with water before falling toward the ground.
—Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 17 Feb. 2023
The agency later identified the hazardous material as nitric acid.
—Adela Suliman, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2023
Univar also stored chemicals next to each other that shouldn’t have been next to each other, like sulfuric acid next to potassium hydroxide and ammonium hydroxide and nitric acid next to potassium permanganate, ammonium persulfate, and hydrogen peroxide, according to the EPA’s allegations.
—Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Jan. 2023
Some of those emissions have been extremely dangerous—a Russian attack on an industrial facility in eastern Ukraine in April, for instance, released a cloud of dangerous, highly corrosive nitric acid—but health effects among civilians have gone largely unreported due to ongoing fighting.
—Time, 18 Oct. 2022
The Ukrainian governor of Luhansk on Tuesday urged residents to stay inside, shut windows and doors, and prepare wet face masks after a Russian strike hit a storage tank holding nitric acid near Rubizhne, which the Russians have been trying to seize.
—Oleksandr Stashevskyi, chicagotribune.com, 5 Apr. 2022
The Tucson Fire Department tweeted the hazardous material was nitric acid, described by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a highly corrosive material that can irritate one's skin, eyes and mucous membrane if exposed.
—Jose R. Gonzalez, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2023
The exposures that Rubicon has reported involved many hazardous chemicals used or manufactured at its Geismar plant, including ammonia, aniline, benzene, chlorobenzene, diphenylamine, hydrochloric acid, methylene diphenyl diisocyanate, nitric acid, nitrobenzene, phosgene and sulfuric acid.
—Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com, 3 Jan. 2021
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