Acidization, another dangerously extreme fossil fuel extraction technique, is similar to fracking but employs hydrofluoric or hydrochloric acid to dissolve rock in order to release oil and gas.

While matrix acidizing is done at a low enough pressure to keep from fracturing the reservoir rock, fracture acidizing involves pumping highly pressurized acid into the well, physically fracturing ...

{1000} = \frac{25.0 × 0.3}{1000}\)= 0.0075 mol moles of sulfuric acid = \(\frac{0.0075}{2}\)= 0.00375 mol (as 2:1 ratio of NaOH:H 2 SO 4) Rearranging the equation above gives:\(volume = \frac ...

Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, blasts water and chemicals into the seafloor to fracture rock and release oil and gas. Acidizing injects hydrofluoric or hydrochloric acid to etch pathways in rock ...