YT2095 Posted April 1, 2005 Share Posted April 1, 2005 btw, do any of you use our Search facility? http://www.scienceforums.net/forums/showthread.php?t=5944 is a good link all about HNO3, the search facility is there for a reason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilded Posted April 1, 2005 Share Posted April 1, 2005 "eh. if you purchase HNO3, the government will watch you very closely" Heheh, indeed. If a purchase even can be done, an individual purchasing HNO3 for no apparent reason gets a Megasuspicious/Terrorist-stamp on his files in the government archive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdurg Posted April 1, 2005 Share Posted April 1, 2005 There are many, many, many viable reasons for purchasing HNO3. The photography industry uses a lot of it to clean plates and whatnot, anybody who does home gold refining will need it as well. There are plenty of valid reasons to buy it. Now if you buy it along with conc. sulfuric acid, some phenol/toluene/glycerine, then you'll be watched. ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
budullewraagh Posted April 1, 2005 Share Posted April 1, 2005 yeah, we all do home gold refining...really, more people blow things up. plus, the government isnt going to notice if you purchase toluene at a hardware store Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fortuna Posted April 3, 2005 Share Posted April 3, 2005 Sulfuric, Understood. To each his own I suppose. I guess I have difficult understanding such motive because I'm professionally biased and think in terms of practicality using an economic mindset. From that POV, I can't imagine spending many hours of time and money for precursors cooking up something I can buy for cheap (but that's my issue). I do some experimenting, but my synths usually involve many steps, and I will tend to focus my efforts on those processes I have to do or for those that aren't available or where it isn't practical or economical to buy the precursor or process chem. So, we just approach from 2 entirely different perspectives I suppose. So, off you go, and good luck. At one time I was really into pyrotechnic chemistry and getting color from different chems during the burn (like color bursts and delayed color displays, etc). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Human oxide Posted August 29, 2008 Share Posted August 29, 2008 if you use ammonia nitrate with sulphuric acid and heat it in a retort and condense it with out a vacuum will the nitric acid be contaminated with ammonia or something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Human oxide Posted September 16, 2008 Share Posted September 16, 2008 would making a solution of sodium nitrate and electrolyze with magnesium electrodes make magnesium nitrate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big314mp Posted September 16, 2008 Share Posted September 16, 2008 The nitric acid would be contaminated with a whole mess of different NOx gasses, as well as some ammonium nitrate and water. The ammonium nitrate would come from ammonia reacting with nitric acid. To synthesize magnesium nitrate, you might just want to mix magnesium sulfate (epsom salt) and sodium nitrate, and then cool the mixture, so that sodium sulfate precipitates out. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnesium_nitrate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_sulphate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
max.yevs Posted March 16, 2009 Share Posted March 16, 2009 ammonium nitrate should work great... rdx can be made fairly simply from ammonia, nitric acid, methane... not that i'm into making illegal explosives Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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