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Sulphuric acid is produced using the contact process, which involves burning sulfur with oxygen to create sulfur dioxide, then converting the sulfur dioxide into sulfur trioxide with more oxygen, which is then dissolved in water to form sulphuric acid. The amount of sulphuric acid a country uses each year is indicative of its level of economic development, as it has applications in many industrial manufacturing processes like paints, detergents, fibers, plastics, and fertilizers.

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Contact Process

Sulphuric acid is produced using the contact process, which involves burning sulfur with oxygen to create sulfur dioxide, then converting the sulfur dioxide into sulfur trioxide with more oxygen, which is then dissolved in water to form sulphuric acid. The amount of sulphuric acid a country uses each year is indicative of its level of economic development, as it has applications in many industrial manufacturing processes like paints, detergents, fibers, plastics, and fertilizers.

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Contact Process

Sulphuric Acid
sulphuric acid is made using the contact process.
sulphuric acid has many uses in industry.
The amount of sulphuric acid which a country uses in one
year
can be a measure of that country's economic development
(how modern or wealthy it is).
The contact process is the name given to the process by
which sulphuric acid is produced. Sulphuric acid has
many uses such as the manufacturing of:
Paints / Pigments
Soaps / Detergents
Fibres
Plastics
Fertilisers
The following reactions are involved:
S (s) + O2 (g) ----> SO2 (g) (sulphur dioxide)
2SO2 (g) + O2 (g) ----> 2SO3 (g) (sulphur trioxide)
Page 202-203 text book

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