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Do Ascorbic Acid, Potassium Nitrate, and Magnesium Sulfate Undergo a Reaction ?

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Do ascorbic acid, potassium nitrate, and magnesium sulfate undergo a reaction when mixed dry or solved in water in pairs or altogether ?

Ascrobic acid is a strong reducer, Nitrate a oxidiser. There will be a reaction. Magnesium sulfate will not react with each of them.

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59 minutes ago, chenbeier said:

Ascrobic acid is a strong reducer, Nitrate a oxidiser. There will be a reaction. Magnesium sulfate will not react with each of them.

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Potassium Nitrate, and Magnesium Sulfate, are salts of stronger acid than ascorbic acid..

 

5 hours ago, chenbeier said:

Ascrobic acid is a strong reducer, Nitrate a oxidiser. There will be a reaction. Magnesium sulfate will not react with each of them.

How fast that reaction will be is another question.

It might be too slow to observe.

If you mixed powdered ascorbic acid and potassium nitrate  then set the mixture on fire there would be a very vigorous reaction.

As powder it would only react by give some initial power like fire, spark to it. A kind of gun powder.  In aqueous solution the reaction also could be quick.

 

 

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