Mineral acids

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The term mineral acids is a collective name for the three strong inorganic acids : hydrochloric acid (hydrochloric acid), sulfuric acid and nitric acid . In some textbooks, phosphoric acid is also included.

Originally all acids, the salts of which are found in minerals , were called mineral acids, including carbonic acid and hydrogen sulfide .

Otto Dammer defined the term in his Lexicon of Applied Chemistry in 1882 as follows:

Text passage mineral acids from: Otto Dammer: Lexicon of applied chemistry, Leipzig 1882, p. 331
" Mineral acids , all acids that do not contain carbon, especially sulfuric acid, nitric acid, phosphoric acid, hydrochloric acid, silicic acid, boric acid etc., in contrast to the carbon-containing acids (acetic acid, picric acid etc.) and especially the vegetable acids (citric acid, malic acid etc.) which are formed in living plants. "

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry on mineral acids. In: Römpp Online . Georg Thieme Verlag, accessed on June 20, 2014.
  2. ^ Otto Dammer: Lexicon of applied chemistry 1882 , 331, Leipzig

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