For example, copper does not react with dilute acids, so copper salts are made using copper oxide or copper carbonate, not copper metal. On the other hand, sodium is too reactive to be used safely ...

Cook and Nevard 1 dealt with the subject of metal-cellulose complexes formed during the treatment of Douglas fir wood with various preservative processes comprising solutions of inorganic salts or ...

A FULL analysis of the infra-red spectra of salts of carboxylic acids requires an interpretation of the effect of the metallic ion. Although a theoretical study of the formate ion has been ...