Chemical database: Nitric acid
Nitric acid is a strong colorless liquid inorganic acid, with strong oxidative and corrosive properties (because of that, one should be very careful when using this acid!). At higher concentrations, it is known as fuming nitric acid (as one opens a bottle of this kind of acid, fumes of various nitric oxides come out). It can mostly be found in two ranges of concentrations: 60-70%, and 96-98%. Most of the produced nitric acid is used in production of mineral fertilizers, for production of explosives (trinitrotoluene, trinitroglycerine, trinitrocellulose, etc.), in metallurgy, as a laboratory reagent, as an oxidant in rocket engines, etc.
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