Garden City firefighters were called for a hazardous materials spill in a lab in the Science Building, the Nassau County Fire ...

Thousands of gallons of nitric acid spilled in Buckeye on Thursday afternoon, police said. The National Library of Medicine ...

In 1833, M. Braconet, of Paris, made the discovery that starch, sawdust and cotton wool, when treated with concentrated nitric acid, became very inflammable, taking fire at a temperature of 356 Fah., ...

There is no danger to the community after thousands of gallons of toxic and highly corrosive nitric acid was spilled at a ...

The more concentrated the solution of an acid, the lower its pH will be. If the hydrogen ion concentration in a solution increases by a factor of 10, the pH of the solution decreases by 1 unit.

Police reported that thousands of gallons of nitric acid spilled in Buckeye on Thursday afternoon. According to the National Library of Medicine, nitric acid is "very toxic" when inhaled.