Talk:Fluorosulfuric acid

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The comment "Fluorosulfuric acid is often marketed by suppliers, such as Aldrich, as a antimony pentafluoride solution. This antimony pentafluoride/fluorosulfuric acid mixture is commonly known as magic acid." is erroneous.

Magic acid contains FSO3H, and this point is well worth noting, but Magic acid is not a mere marketing ploy, it is a different chemical from FSO3H. Magic acid is a "super acid", I dont think that FSO3H is. This requires some further reading.Smokefoot 03:38, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Footnote Updates Needed

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Footnotes

The footnotes need to be updated as per the Wiki standard - agree anyone?

Ryan Jones 23:32, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Yep the footnotes are strange. A young student did this report for my class, and we are semi-clueless on format nicities.--Smokefoot 00:44, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fluorosulfuric acid eats right through glass?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorosulfuric_acid says: When freed from HF by sweeping with an inert gas, it can be distilled in glass apparatus [3].

While http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboranes says: ...such as fluorosulfuric acid that eats right through glass [2].

So which is correct? Is it the HF that eats through glass, which it is know to do?

subasd 10:41, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

FSO3H does not attack glass according to the Encyclopedia for Reagents for Organic Synthesis. FSO3H hydrolyzes to release HF, which does attack glass. I removed the misleading statement from the article. Also colorful language like "eat glass" is fun to read but not very informative. Someone should take a look at the carborane article to help rebalance it, because carboranes are bigger than the derived acids being studies recently.--Smokefoot 13:49, 15 April 2006 (UTC)