How to Use sulfuric acid in a Sentence

sulfuric acid

noun

• The first lead-acid battery was made of a few pieces of lead in a jar of sulfuric acid.
  — Wesley Chang, The Conversation, 5 Apr. 2024
• After the men were dead, the killers poured sulfuric acid on the bodies.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
• The vog's sulfuric acid droplets would fall, too -- thus, acid rain.
  — Jason Hanna, CNN, 10 May 2018
• Creeks still get mucked up with iron and sulfuric acid from old mines.
  — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Apr. 2021
• Those clouds are made mostly of sulfuric acid, which would seem to argue against the Venus-life idea.
  — Mike Wall, Space.com, 16 Apr. 2018
• Still, even in this Venus sweet spot, the CO2-heavy atmosphere exists, and clouds are made of sulfuric acid.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 4 Aug. 2023
• For example, radar is needed to pierce the opaque, sulfuric acid clouds and see the surface.
  — Paul K. Byrne, The Conversation, 23 Aug. 2019
• This happens when the sulfuric acid droplets become too large to stay in the atmosphere.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 20 Sep. 2022
• Cheap gins were vile home brews, made with turpentine and sulfuric acid and sold from rank nooks and cellars.
  — Jeffrey Collins, WSJ, 23 June 2023
• The sulfur would be burned and mixed with water to produce as much as 5,800 tons of toxic sulfuric acid each day.
  — Daniel Moore, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Sep. 2022
• Its cloud layers are packed with sulfuric acid—enough to chew through skin, bone and metal in moments.
  — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 2 June 2021
• Choked by a smog of sulfuric acid and scorched by temperatures hot enough to melt lead, the surface of Venus is sure to be lifeless.
  — Bypaul Voosen, science.org, 15 Mar. 2023
• Of the 41 Superfund sites -- places storing sulfuric acid, heavy metals and waste oils -- that were in the storm's path, 13 were flooded.
  — CBS News, 29 Sep. 2017
• Venus is a dead realm choked with carbon dioxide, lead-melting heat, and sulfuric acid rain.
  — Dave Mosher, Popular Mechanics, 4 June 2012
• The sulfuric acid droplets act as a veil on the Earth's lower atmosphere, absorbing hear high in the stratosphere.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 27 Apr. 2023
• On her birthday this year in June, Khan was attacked with sulfuric acid and suffered burns to her left eye, face, shoulder, arms, and legs.
  — Rosemary Donahue, Allure, 11 Sep. 2017
• But Venus’s atmosphere is so acidic, with clouds made of droplets of sulfuric acid, that any phosphine would be quickly zapped.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2020
• When sulfuric acid was added to the mixture, water was forced under pressure onto the fire.
  — Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland, 12 Feb. 2020
• The sites contain everything from sulfuric acid to heavy metals to waste oils.
  — Emily Atkin, New Republic, 8 Sep. 2017
• The 60-year-old line had deteriorated due to a buildup of sulfuric acid and might have been strained by the series of storms that hit the region last week.
  — Christian Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2022
• Both the sulfuric acid and the lead plates are reusable with only a modest amount of processing.
  — Mike Allen, Popular Mechanics, 9 Oct. 2018
• The lithium will be extracted by mixing clay dug out from the mountainside with as much as 5,800 tons a day of sulfuric acid.
  — New York Times, 6 May 2021
• The Highlands Acid Pit site near Chandler’s home was filled in the 1950s with toxic sludge and sulfuric acid from oil and gas operations.
  — Michael Biesecker, The Seattle Times, 2 Sep. 2017
• The Highlands Acid Pit site near Chandler's home was filled in the 1950s with toxic sludge and sulfuric acid from oil and gas operations.
  — CBS News, 2 Sep. 2017
• Many car batteries are filled with a mixture of water and sulfuric acid.
  — Alex Leanse, Popular Mechanics, 23 Dec. 2016
• Trump's action could push the Earth over the brink, to become like Venus, with a temperature of 250 degrees and raining sulfuric acid.
  — Juliana Rose Pignataro, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2018
• Officials have called for tougher sentences, and restrictions on the sale of sulfuric acid.
  — Ellen Barry, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2017
• In 1782, Carl Wilhelm Scheele stirred a pot of Prussian blue with a spoon coated in traces of sulfuric acid and created cyanide, the most potent poison of the modern era.
  — Benjamín Labatut, Harper's Magazine, 28 Sep. 2021
• Venus, the closest planet to Earth, has an atmosphere similar to ours, but much more hot and full of corrosive sulfuric acid.
  — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 30 July 2024
• His body was dissolved in sulfuric acid, and the remains—teeth and finger bones—were taken by a Belgian police officer charged with disposing of the corpse.
  — Zachariah Mampilly, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024