What is the chemistry of volcanoes?
Chemistry For Your Life
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The Effects of Hydrochloric Acid on the Environment
There's also different types of volcanic rock like some is shiny and glassy because it's got a different air content. Some gases have been known to take the surface off researchers glasses when they're there studying. hydrogen chloride and hydrogen fluoride or you've probably heard it called as hydrofluoric acid or hydrochloric acid. Those acids are actually gases at room temperature and they're just often dissolved into a water for us to be able to transport them.
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