How to Use sulfuric acid in a Sentence

sulfuric acid

noun
  • Creeks still get mucked up with iron and sulfuric acid from old mines.
    — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Apr. 2021
  • The vog's sulfuric acid droplets would fall, too -- thus, acid rain.
    — Jason Hanna, CNN, 10 May 2018
  • 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 microbes still need a small amount of sulfuric acid to kick-start the process of breaking down the ore.
    — Vanessa Bates Ramirez, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2025
  • There, the gas reacts to form droplets of sulfuric acid that scatter sunlight back to space.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2025
  • In the new system, post-consumer plastics were first boiled in sulfuric acid for six hours.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 8 May 2026
  • Venus is a dead realm choked with carbon dioxide, lead-melting heat, and sulfuric acid rain.
    — Dave Mosher, Popular Mechanics, 4 June 2012
  • 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
  • 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
  • The protons combine with sulfate ions to make sulfuric acid.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Feb. 2026
  • This happens when the sulfuric acid droplets become too large to stay in the atmosphere.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Many car batteries are filled with a mixture of water and sulfuric acid.
    — Alex Leanse, Popular Mechanics, 23 Dec. 2016
  • For example, radar is needed to pierce the opaque, sulfuric acid clouds and see the surface.
    — Paul K. Byrne, The Conversation, 23 Aug. 2019
  • The sites contain everything from sulfuric acid to heavy metals to waste oils.
    — Emily Atkin, New Republic, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Contact with sulfuric acid can result in burning flesh and vision loss.
    — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 16 June 2026
  • Another blasts rock to create open pits and uses sulfuric acid to leach lithium from clay.
    — Meg Bernhard, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
  • When sulfuric acid was added to the mixture, water was forced under pressure onto the fire.
    — Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland, 12 Feb. 2020
  • For inspiration, the pair looked to Venus and its thick cloud layer made of tiny sulfuric acid droplets.
    — Leslie Katz, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Officials have called for tougher sentences, and restrictions on the sale of sulfuric acid.
    — Ellen Barry, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2017
  • Both the sulfuric acid and the lead plates are reusable with only a modest amount of processing.
    — Mike Allen, Popular Mechanics, 9 Oct. 2018
  • Plants relied on sulfuric acid and caustic soda to leach and separate.
    — Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2025
  • When sulfide ore and its waste tailings are exposed to air and moisture, sulfuric acid is created.
    — Stephanie Pearson, Outside Online, 20 May 2019
  • Her work revealed that ammonia from seabird droppings mixes with sulfuric acid and water from the ocean.
    — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 15 Nov. 2016
  • The ban will cover sulfuric acid that’s a by-product of copper and zinc smelting in China.
    — Julian Luk, Bloomberg, 10 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • The dense clouds of sulfuric acid only serve to make the planet more intimidating.
    — Nola Taylor Redd, Smithsonian, 15 Mar. 2017
  • Wreathed in corrosive sulfuric acid, Venus is not the swampy jungle sci-fi writers once imagined.
    — Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • In particular, where is the trailer that contained 3 tons of sulfuric acid?
    — Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 14 Mar. 2018

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