diluting acid

Let us learn about diluting acid

Properties of dilute nitric acid

1. The color of the dilute nitric acid differs from colorless to yellowish liquid.

2. Dilute nitric acid has suffocating & acrid odor.

3. Dilute nitric Acid is always infinitely soluble in water.

4. Specific gravity of dilute nitric acid is always 1.41

5. Dilute nitric acid boils at 122⁰C & melts at -42⁰C .

6. Dilute nitric acid is stable under ordinary conditions but containers may burst when heated.

7. Being a strong acid dilute nitric acid reacts with alkalis, basic oxides & carbonates to form salts.

8. When dilute nitric acid is reacts with steam & water it produces toxic & corrosive fumes.

9. dilute nitric acid has -1.4 acid dissociation constant

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