 Nitric acid from ammonium nitrate and sulfuric acid?
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Solidacid
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Mon Dec 14 2009, 11:18AM
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is it possible? making Nitric acid from ammonium nitrate and sulfuric acid.
i know that nitric acid can be made with sulfuric acid and potassium nitrate but i have no idea is ammonium nitrate(or sodium nitrate) would work.
if so, how much should i use?
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Bored Chemist
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Sodium nitrate would work. Ammonium nitrate might , but you have a serious risk that the nitrate and the ammonium would react to produce H2O and NO2 and/ or O2 and N2.
that's not something you want happening with hot H2SO4 present.
You could always turn the ammonium nitrate into sodium nitrate first.
On the other hand, if you don't know enough about it to know how much to use, I'm not sure you should be using nitric acid anyway.
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