Garden City firefighters were called for a hazardous materials spill in a lab in the Science Building, the Nassau County Fire Marshal's Office said.

If there’s a chemical with a cooler name than “fuming nitric acid,” we can’t think of it. Nearly pure nitric acid is useful stuff, especially if you’re in the business of making rocket ...

There is no danger to the community after thousands of gallons of toxic and highly corrosive nitric acid was spilled at a Buckeye facility Thursday, according to officials with the Buckeye Fire ...

the discovery of rendering cotton explosive by the Kse of sulphuric acid combinctl with the nitric, in treating it ... in a well stopped bottle, and the mixture shaken for some minutes, when ...