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sulphuric acid

sulphuric acid noun: a colourless highly corrosive liquid, H₂SO₄.

Noun

sulphuric acid (countable and uncountable, plural sulphuric acids)

  1. (UK) A colourless highly corrosive liquid, H₂SO₄.
    • In the case of nitric acid, however, the employment of the aræometer introduces far greater errors than when it is used for sulphuric acid, hydrochloric acid, and in most other cases, as the concentrated nitric acids as a rule always contain nitrogen tetroxide in solution, the quantity being seldom...1905, Georg Lunge, Alfred Isaac Cohn, Techno‐Chemical Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, pages 57–58

sulphuric acid meaning in Tamil, Telugu and Kannada

sulphuric acid in Tamil

சல்பூரிக்கமிலம், கந்தக அமிலம், கந்தம அமிலம்

sulphuric acid in Telugu

sulphuric acid
గంధకికామ్లము gandhakikāmlamu

sulphuric acid in Kannada

ಗಂಧಕಾಮ್ಲ, ಸಲ್ಫ್ಯೂರಿಕ್ ಆಮ್ಲ

Forms of sulphuric acid

pluralsulphuric acids
alternative USsulfuric acid

Words formed from sulphuric acid

Questions about sulphuric acid

What does sulphuric acid mean?
Sulphuric acid means a colourless highly corrosive liquid, H₂SO₄.
What is sulphuric acid in Tamil?
Sulphuric acid in Tamil is சல்பூரிக்கமிலம், கந்தக அமிலம், கந்தம அமிலம். See Sulphuric acid meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is sulphuric acid?
Sulphuric acid is a noun.
What is the plural of sulphuric acid?
The plural of sulphuric acid is sulphuric acids.

Words near sulphuric acid in the dictionary

  1. sulphuretums
  2. sulphurflower
  3. sulphurflowers
  4. sulphurian
  5. sulphuric
  6. sulphuric acid
  7. sulphuricum
  8. sulphuriferous
  9. sulphurine
  10. sulphuring
  11. sulphurisation

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sulphuric acid (page history and authors); sulphuric acid (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); గంధకికామ్లము (Telugu) (page history and authors); sulphuric acid (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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