nope, most drain cleaners are alkaline, but some patio/path cleaners contain HCL

damn its back to finding some old car batterys or a company that service batteries which is probably near impossible

ok then where could i find some old cheap batterys

That kno3 looks great, but still, it's in USA. And jsatan, oh how I tried! But all the sellers are in USA. Recently, I mailed to an American pyrotechnics company and I think they thought I was a freaking terrorist or something.

a local junk yard with scrap cars in it, they normaly keep the batts next to the office/shed

did you get your conical flask from scichem.co.uk if so how much did it cost

i forgot to ask as well your condenser which you made do you push it through your cork, most probably do thats what i am going to do and also why do you put you tube which is bent into the acid i thought it would be placed just above it

That kno3 looks great, but still, it's in USA. And jsatan, oh how I tried! But all the sellers are in USA. Recently, I mailed to an American pyrotechnics company and I think they thought I was a freaking terrorist or something.

no its not in the USA did you not look at the prices there in pounds£ not dollars$ which means its in england

Whoops! I just saw "Cleveland" and thought it was Cleveland, Ohio. But apparently it's the state of Cleveland in England.

 

Edit: Hmm, it's got "the strongest ammonia money can buy" and iodine crystals on the same page. Time for some nitrogen tri-iodide!

"i saw cleveland" but still the currancey would have given the country away nevermind ill let you off and we dont have states we have countys i i was thinking that but £40 for the ammonia im sure you can get it cheaper else where

did you get your conical flask from scichem.co.uk if so how much did it cost

I did, they`re only up the road from me, and I bought a box of 10, I don`t rem the cost as it was a few years ago and the invoice is long hidden in a pile of paperwork since then, sorry.

its not good enough again back to the distilling the long tube you made(condensor) did you put it through the cork because thats what i will do and why did you put the tube in the acid not above the acid

through the cork then sealed up.

 

IN because the vapors will condense better when bubbled THROUGH the acid rather than above it. and THAT will HAVE TO BE "Good enough"

i see where you are coming from thats brilliant thank you now all i need is the sulphuric acid

the acid`s cheap as chips and plentifull, you shouldn`t have a prob

which acid the one i posted in H2O2

no... the H2SO4 that we`ve been discussing in here all day

or right yes i will look around for some

have you looked at http://www.growell.co.uk and typed in nitric acid in the search button

indeed I have, and I`m pretty disgusted that you`ve known this and not once asked how to concentrate it

i am really sorry but like i said in the H2O2 post i thought it would have some really bad impurites to concentrate it though could i just boil it or would i have to distill it and besides i have learnd something from it one how to make nitric acid from potassium nitrate and sulphuric acid and two if i know of a link mention it at the start

so how would i concentrate 38% nitric acid to 70% would i just boil it or would i distill it and that nitric acid i mentiond would it have some impurites

add conc sulphuric to it and re-distill it, that`s all I do, just keep an eye on the gas color (or temp if you want to get fancy) LOL

does'nt that give you a concentration of about 98% because i only want 70% 98% is way to concentrated, couldnt i just boil it. and won't that nitric acid from the ph down have impurities or would it just be nitric acid and water

I`ve no way of knowing what impurities the PH Down has without having a sample, so I can`t really answer that for you in honesty, but re-distilation will elliminate them unless they have a lower BP, but even so, it`ll shift most