sulfur dihydroxide is the other name of sulphuric acid.
what is the other name of sulphuric acid?
sulfur dihydroxide
in 1736, ward set up the great vitriol works in twickenham for producing sulphuric acid. it used a process discovered in the seventeenth century by johann glauber in which sulphur is burned together with saltpetre (potassium nitrate), in the presence of steam. as the saltpetre decomposes, it oxidises the sulphur to sulfur trioxide, which combines with water to produce sulphuric acid. this was the first practical production of sulphuric acid on a large scale.
joshua ward
besides biogenic vapours produced by plants, another class of trace vapours, amines have been shown by cloud to cluster with sulphuric acid to produce new aerosol particles in the atmosphere. these are found close to their primary sources, e.g. animal husbandry, while alpha-pinene is generally found over landmasses. the experiments show that sulfuric acid and oxidized organic vapors at low concentrations reproduce suitable particle nucleation rates. the nucleation mechanism used on global aerosol models yields a photochemically and biologically driven seasonal cycle of particle concentrations and cloud formation in good agreement with observations. cloud insofar allows to explain a large fraction of cloud seeds in the lower atmosphere involving sulphuric acid and biogenic aerosols. cloud researchers note that cosmic rays have little influence on the formation of sulphuric acid–amine particle formation: "the ion-induced contribution is generally small, reflecting the high stability of sulphuric acid–dimethylamine clusters and indicating that galactic cosmic rays exert only a small influence on their formation, except at low overall formation rates." this result does not support the hypothesis that cosmic rays significantly affect climate, although a cern press release states that neither does it "rule out a role for cosmic radiation" in climate.
cloud experiment