If we're looking for life as we don't know it, the best solvent out there may be concentrated sulfuric acid — the stuff that's floating around in the clouds of Venus.

And what you do is you get this sulfuric acid out at the other end. And that sulfuric acid you then collect and then pass around the world. So that causes two problems. One, actually, as you’re ...

Direct sulfuric acid formation from the gas-phase oxidation of reduced-sulfur compounds. Nature Communications , 2023; 14 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-40586-2 Cite This Page : ...

Sulfuric acid demand is set to soar just as sources are likely to shrink. Maslin et al. (2022), Author provided. The US Geological Survey estimates that there is an almost limitless supply of ...