Nicotine in third-hand smoke, the residue from tobacco smoke that clings to virtually all surfaces long after a cigarette has been extinguished, reacts with the common indoor air pollutant nitrous ...

DURING investigations into the nature of gases produced by the reaction of nitrous acid with soil humic acids and lignins, a product was obtained from lignin which showed anomalous behaviour. There ...

IN a recent communication, Stevenson and Swaby 1 reported the presence of a heretofore unobserved nitrogenous gas in the product obtained by reacting nitrous acid with lignins. The identity of the gas ...

Because nitric acid is stable, long-lived, and not photochemically reactive, it’s long been thought to be the final destination for reactive nitrogen species in the atmosphere. But those assumptions ...

An acid and alkali will neutralise each other and produce a salt and water. This is called a neutralisation reaction. The name of the salt produced can be worked out from the names of the acid and the ...

Nitric acid and ammonia are the two important reactive forms of nitrogen, which are widely used in human life and production. In 2017, the worldwide production of HNO3 and NH3 was estimated to be 50 ...