Talk:Copșa Mică works

A fact from Copșa Mică works appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 11 June 2012 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that two factories (one pictured) in Copșa Mică, Romania, together made it one of the most polluted towns in Eastern Europe by the early 1990s?

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Sulphuric acid

This: In 1955, a unit for producing sulfuric acid, needed for extracting heavy metals, was inaugurated is perhaps a misunderstanding? The production of sulphuric acid is merely a means of disposing of SO₂ resulting from the sintering ZnS and PbS ores. Also sulfuric oxide mentioned in the Environmental impact section is not a recognized term as far as I (as a non-chemist) am aware, but probably refers to sulphur oxides SO₂ and SO₃ which escape conversion into acid (or rather, are converted to acid in the environment as opposed to in the acid plant). --catslash (talk) 18:56, 11 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]