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Offline wilson300

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Acid
« on: March 06, 2008, 04:47:52 AM »
Which acid should be stored in plastic containers rather then in glass ones??
a) hydroflouric acid
b) nitric acid
c) phosphoric acid
d) sulfuric acid

How do u approach this problem?? Or is it one of the things that we have to memorize??

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Re: Acid
« Reply #1 on: March 06, 2008, 06:00:30 AM »
Do you know chemical properties of these acids? What do they react with?
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Re: Acid
« Reply #2 on: March 06, 2008, 06:42:35 AM »
Which acid reacts with glass?
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Re: Acid
« Reply #3 on: March 06, 2008, 08:24:45 AM »
Which acid should be stored in plastic containers rather then in glass ones??

How do u approach this problem?? Or is it one of the things that we have to memorize??

Yes, pretty much, as you can see from the responses below.

Do you know chemical properties of these acids? What do they react with?

Which acid reacts with glass?

You can try and figure it out, if you look on the lab shelf.  There may be glass bottles of all but one of those acids.  But nowadays, resistant plastic is cheaper to ship, so that trick may not even work for you.  Have you used any (most? all but one?) in lab experiments, using standard glassware?  Failing that, just look each one up in your text book's index, one of them is very interesting, the others pretty typical.
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