Isopropenyl acetate was synthesized from ketene and acetone by direct esterification using strong acidic cation-exchange resin to substitute H2SO4 as catalyst.
Methods Certain amounts of and Zn were put into the wastewater to produce hydrogen (H2) and the H2 reacted with S2-to form H2S, and sulfuret was separated from the wastewater.
Scientists in Australia found microbes known as Thiobacillus concretivorans that lived in, indeed, could not live without-concentrations of sulfuric acid strong enough to dissolve metal.