Sulphuric acid brochure - Weir Minerals - #1

or Oil of Vitriol, was known in tenth-century Arabia and Persia, and was undoubtedly the reagent preferred by medieval alchemists in

SULPHURIC ACID,

their

efforts to

create gold from base metals. However, large scale production of sulphuric acid awaited the eighteenth century and the introduction of the lead chamber process, which was superceded after nearly two centuries by the contact process. Today, sulphuric acid is produced in greater volume than any other chemical commodity and has been widely recognized as an accurate indicator of the state of a nation's industrial development.

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