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mixed acid

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noun

Chemistry.
  1. any mixture of nitric acid and sulfuric acid, used as a nitrating agent in the manufacture of explosives, plastics, etc.


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T.N.T. in the past has also been made discontinuously thus: The toluene is nitrated by mixed acid into either mono- or dinitrotoluene, which is then trinitrated.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar by Various

Boston, the mixed acid went down that hole, or others like it.

From Great Sea Stories by French, Joseph Lewis

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