Nitric acid is a chemical belongs to inorganic acids group with formula HNO 3. It is a nitrogen oxoacid which is basically a nitrogen atom that is bonded to diatomic anion OH called hydroxy. In appearance, nitric acid is a transparent liquid, colorless but sometimes yellowish cast will come in sight when this chemical is old due to the accumulation of nitrogen’s oxides. Nitric acid also has a red fuming liquid appearance that will appear as a pale yellow to a reddish-brown liquid that generates red to brown fumes. As for the odor, the nitric acid characteristic odor is sweet to acrid odor that suffocating. Nitric acid is a common laboratory reagent and an important chemical for the manufacture of fertilizers, explosives products, and as dyes manufacture. 80% use of nitric acid is mainly used for the manufacture of fertilizers. In the manufacturing process, nitric acid will help to generate ammonium nitrate and calcium ammonium nitrate, a compound to make a mixture for fertili...
Turpentine oil is obtained by distillation of pine resin. It is mainly composed of alpha-pinene and beta-pinene, with small quantities of carene, camphene, dipentene and terpinolene. Turpentine oil is a colorless, oily, solvent with a strong odor. In earlier times, turpentine oil was sourced from a mediterranean tree called Terebinth, which is related to the pistachios family. Nowadays, turpentine is obtained from Maritime pine, Sumatran pine, Aleppo pine, Longleaf pine, Masson’s pine,Ponderosa pine, and Loblolly pine. To remove the pine arks, turpentiners used various tricks tap into the layered sap. On debarking, oleoresin is secreted by the pine tree so as to protect from insects, microbes and to prevent sap loss. This oleoresin is collected and processed as the spirit of turpentine by the turpentine oil suppliers . On subjection to steam distillation, oleoresin gives rise to top product turpentine which is taken from the condenser, and bottom product molten rosin. Different Us...