The recovery of valuable metals from end-of-life (EoL) photovoltaic (PV) modules is a crucial step in ensuring the long-term environmental and economic sustainability of society and the circular ...

Many of us have had the experience of looking at a nutrition label and hardly even recognizing the ingredients. You might have seen one such ingredient popping up frequently — sodium acid ...

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Authorities in Hawaii are searching for a suspect who allegedly threw acid into a man’s face Friday night in Honolulu, leaving him in critical condition. According to the Honolulu Police Department ...

Although Charles Hall conducted his first successful run of the Hall-Héroult aluminium smelting process in the woodshed behind his house, it has ever since remained mostly out of reach of home ...

Acid rain is any form of precipitation that contains high levels of nitric and sulfuric acids. First coined by Scottish chemist Robert Angus Smith in 1852, acid rain can also occur in the form of snow ...

I tried dropping sodium metal into sulfuric acid — and the reaction was way more intense (and dangerous) than I expected. Here’s what happened and why you definitely shouldn’t try this at home. Former ...

The pretreatment of boiler feed water requires removal of both suspended solids and dissolved solids. The ionic species dissolved in water lead to corrosion and deposition in modern high-temperature, ...

When a sulfur-bearing fuel is burned, essentially all the sulfur is initially converted to SO 2, the primary form of sulfur emissions from combustion equipment. A small portion of the SO 2 converts to ...

In fall 2012, an employee conducting a routine inspection at Talvivaara Mining Company’s nickel mine in a forested part of central Finland discovered that the site’s 60 hectare wastewater pond had ...