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Nitric Acid

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Nitric acid's chemical properties are strongly acidic and highly reactive compound. Fumes in moist air, reacts readily with organic and plastic compounds, and many metals.

Common uses

Nitric acid is used in a wide variety of chemical processes where cleaning, oxidising or etching is required, including making synthetic fibres, dying, electrical circuit board making, electroplating, explosives, laboratory chemicals, metal cleaning and etching, semiconductors, pharmaceutical manufacture. It is used in the manufacture of fertilisers and other organic chemicals, in the printing industry for photoengraving, in jewellery manufacturing, and for wet chemical etching. [1]

Reference

  1. http://www.npi.gov.au/database/substance-info/profiles/65.html