sorry its 38% concentrated

so you mean to tell me, that you`ve know all of this, and never once thought to ask "HOW do I concentrate this to make a 70% soln?"

 

http://www.growell.co.uk/index.php?f=itemdetl.php&p=1221

sorry i thought it would have some major impurites and i still do beleave that and to concentrate it to 70% could you just boil it or would you have to distill it

How pure does nitric acid have to be to be explosive grade? >90%?

 

*remembers promising YT2095 not to mess with high explosives*

 

Err... *runs off muttering about pine table disintegrating*

 

Edit: *mutters also about posting in wrong threads*

it depends on what explosive you wish to make if its something like nitrocellulose or mercury fuliment then it has to be 70% if you want to make a high explosive like RDX or petn then it has to be about 98% Why?

98% nitric... NICE! Fumming White Nitric, don`t ya just Luuurrrrv the smell

lol. nice someone who's addicted to the smell of 98% nitric acid

it`s a sweet smell a bit similar to chlorine, but less harsh and much sweeter, really quite Clean and pleasant smelling in my opinion

Well, why don't we found ENASC (European Nitric Acid Sniffers Club).

bags the chairman position

i'll be vice chairman

Dammit! Every single time you come up with a good abbreviation it's already taken:

 

http://www.mambaye.be/htdocs-fr/traduction2/main.htm

 

"Eveil à la nature, au Sport et à la culture"

ooo, i have a question: which is better, nitric or chlorine peroxide?

better in terms of what?

smell

dont know, why dont you make some and find out!

i did make some chlorine peroxide once when i wasn't so experienced in chemistry. it was a sort of accident (wait, that had sodium hypochlorite in it??). i was looking carefully at my beaker when the reaction occurred, so i got a good breath of it in. of course, i jumped back. i ended up coughing for 2 minutes or so, followed by less frequent coughing and a bit of respiratory irritation. it could have been worse of course, but i didn't get pulmonary edema. both luckily and not so, i did this in my basement, where it is more or less dark, but has no ventilation. as a result, it was sketchy getting rid of the chlorine peroxide, but it did not detonate due to the lack of light. it diffused enough to not explode violently as it left the basement when i opened all the windows and doors in the house.

 

i do not wish to make that again anytime soon

ah, that answers what another question i was thinking, but never actually said.... isnt breathing in all of these gasses a bit dangerous? but uh, i think we just had the answer!

yes, yes it is. it was an accident i breathed in the chlorine peroxide, just so you know. i'm really careful not to hurt myself when doing lab work (perhaps too careful)

but no matter how carefull you are accidents always happen.... like you breathing in the chlorine peroxide and pulkit told me about some guy who was playing with [it was either] sodium or potassium, cant remember, anyway, this guy was really carefull, but somehow a bit of Na or K got into his/her eye and they had to wear glasses for the rest of their lives

 

moral: be carefull, but remember accidents happen to everyone.... you are not an exception!

of course. if you go to unitednuclear and look for experiments they make you agree that you are experienced and will be careful. if you click the link that says you burn yourself when you light matches, they bring you to the disney site

If you say "I'm too stupid to read the above notice" then they bring you to the sesame street web site. Good stuff.

isn't it just? gotta love the site tho. sadly, they sell iodine for $20/oz, as mentioned above, which is really a sad thing considering i really want to work with nitrogen trihalides (in very minute quantities, mind you). oh well, i guess i'm off to buy some "tincture of iodine"

Hmm... If you make nitrogen tri-iodide, it won't even explode if the iodine is >99,99%? Or was it the other way around? Horse hoof-ailment medicine is like 98% iodine, so if it's that way, it should work just fine.

it has to be iodine crystals any way and iodine crystals are pure