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acids like HCl nad acetic acids

2007-03-12 08:42:19 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics Chemistry

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In general, there isn't one. Concentrated sulfuric acid has a voracious appetite for water, so will extract it from wood (which is basically CH2O), leaving carbon. Nitric acid will attack wood to make nitrocellulose, an explosive, but the reaction is not very effective unless there is also sulfuric acid present to suck up the generated water.

2007-03-12 08:52:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

None.

If you put concentrated sulphuric acid on wood, that would (excuse the pun!) be a different matter. The wood would char and turn into carbon.

2007-03-12 15:51:38 · answer #2 · answered by Gervald F 7 · 0 1

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