If there’s a chemical with a cooler name than “fuming nitric acid,” we can’t think of it. Nearly pure nitric acid is useful stuff, especially if you’re in the business of making rocket fuels and ...

An Arizona interstate reopened on Wednesday evening a day after a deadly crash caused a tanker truck to leak hazardous material into the desert. About two miles of Interstate 10 was closed in both ...

Arizona authorities announced Wednesday morning that a Tuesday afternoon shelter-in-place order following a deadly rollover that resulted in a hazmat spill has been reinstated. "The shelter-in-place ...

Modern fertilizer manufacturing uses the Haber-Bosch and Ostwald processes to fix aerial nitrogen as ammonia, then oxidize the ammonia to nitric acid. Having already created a Haber-Bosch reactor for ...

A commercial vehicle carrying extremely hazardous nitric acid was involved in a crash on an Arizona highway, prompting officials to evacuate the immediate area, including the University of Arizona's ...

TUCSON, Ariz. — A deadly crash of a commercial tanker truck caused hazardous material to leak onto Interstate 10 outside Tucson on Tuesday, shutting down the key highway through Arizona and forcing ...

The vigorous reaction between copper metal and nitric oxide famously propelled chemist Ira Remsen into an esteemed career in research and education that spanned the turn of the 20th century. In a ...

Cleanup efforts are underway after a nitric acid spill occurred at the Radford Army Ammunition Plant. It happened in the railyard on Tuesday and was about ten times larger than initially estimated.

Russian troops appear to have hit a nitric acid tank in Ukraine, according to a statement made by Luhansk regional administrator Serhiy Haidai on Telegram. Haidai warned that Russian forces hit the ...

The interaction between stainless steel and nitric acid remains a subject of critical importance due to its widespread applications in chemical processing, nuclear reprocessing and waste management.