Chemists call anything stronger than pure sulfuric acid a superacid.

化学家把一切比纯硫酸酸性更强的酸叫超强酸。

But inside chemistry labs, chemists also work with what they call superacids.

但在化学实验室里，化学家们也会研究所谓的超强酸。

But it's still not the strongest superacid ever made.

但它仍然不是已知的最强酸。

One of the best-known superacids is one called magic acid.

最广为人知的一种超强酸是魔酸。

But unless you have teflon-lined bottles lying around, it's probably a good idea to just stay away from superacids.

但是除非你周围全是聚四氟乙烯瓶，否则你最好还是远离超强酸吧。

Olah found that one of the best ways to make carbocations is to put organic molecules, which have lots of carbon, next to superacids.

Olah 发现制造碳正离子的最好的办法就是将含碳有机物靠近超强酸。

These scientists think they'll be able to stop nitrogen oxides before they reach the atmosphere by running the car exhaust past the superacid first.

科学家们认为尾气排放前经过超强酸处理能阻止氮氧化物的排放。

Superacids get so strong because a lot of them are made by mixing an existing strong acid with another acid that involves the super-reactive element fluorine.

一种强酸和另一种含有有超强反应活性的氟元素的酸混合造就了大部分超强酸。

Superacids were first described back in 1927 by scientists at Harvard, but superacid research really got going back in the 1960s, mainly thanks to a chemist named George Olah.

在1927年哈佛科学家第一次提出超强酸概念，但超强酸的研究却在19世纪60年代才有进展，这主要归功于一个名叫 George Olah 的化学家。

Other researchers have also found some superacids that bond really well with nitrogen oxides, gases made of both nitrogen and oxygen that are released in car exhaust, become smog, and lead to acid rain.

另一些研究人员还发现一些超强酸与氮氧化物结合的很好，汽车排放的含氮和氧组成的尾气会造成光化学烟雾污染，进一步形成酸雨。