I wanted to show a wider range of approaches. If i didn't use water some viewers may get the impression water can't be used. Then i'd get questions like "couldn't you use water instead of hydrogen peroxide?" by showing both we see more perspectives and get a better handle on the underlying chemistry and how it can work in different ways.
Great video! Thanks for making this! When using sulfuric acid, can you use battery acid from an auto shop, or is that too dilute? Do you need to boil it down to a higher concentration?
4:05 I wanted to just point out that you can distill fuming (above concentrated) nitric acid, you just need to use concentrated nitric acid and concentrated sulfuric acid and distill. The sulfuric acid likes water much more and will keep it in the flask while the almost pure nitric acid distills over. Great video!
Thank you for the great information. I used to love my Chemistry classes in college and Nitric acid was used in many experiments but getting a supply has never been easy. I saved all my old lab workbooks and notes and would love to set up a lab and do these experiments again.
Instead of actually understanding the origin of the rule or why it applies you rely on unscientific catch phrases and insults? Your so called "basic rule" only applies to certain limited set of circumstances. Primarily it applies to adding water to concentrated sulfuric acid. But if you don't believe me try this: Grab some vinegar in your kitchen (an acid) and add water to it. NOTHING will happen other than getting some diluted vinegar. Try to be smarter and less insulting will you?
I learned in High School chemistry 40 years ago to "Add acid to watah, just like you oughta." I haven't run into any circumstances where that caused problems, even with vinegar, so it seems like a useful guideline.
@@brandonknight7240 im glad i wasnt the only one who heard this, but to dissolve copper means that the acid and coppers by product is water soluble. So hydrochloric acid can destroy copper its byproduct isnt water soluble. I believe is the answer
@@anonamemous6865 He mentions using a fume hood (proper ventilation) It's also safe practice to have a supply of baking soda readily accessible in order to neutralize any acid spills In addition to proper housekeeping to avoid accidents and inadvertent contamination, have fire safety measures in place (for any lab work). Another prudent step would be to have a safe storage process already in place to store the nitric acid. Don't forget, do this when you have a clear head and a $1m life insurance policy with me as your beneficiary. One last thing.....do this far away from other stored chemicals
Any time I question handling a chemical or it's something I haven't done before I come here and check you and NileRed, Because you point out th dangers and safety precautions that should be taken. (Cody too but he caves in to the trolls when it comes to PPE) If you do revisit this one please consider mentioning your choice of gloves and why neoprene are so very very bad with nitric acid. The eyes you save adding a couple of seconds to your videos might belong to one of my grand children. Because of their age differences, we started out. I'd pick their video to watch and then have them tell me what they saw. I was surprised at the level of retention. Now I'm scrambling to keep up with 11 of them. I mention this because a couple of the older kids have decided to make their careers in chem related fields. Thought you might like to know, you Grant, Red, Elemental, and Cody have directly effected my family in a positive manner. Thank you gentlemen.
Thank you for that comprehensive response. I was hoping I wasn't going to get the moronic, pathetic responses I normally get when I ask a question. That makes complete sense and I was already thinking along those lines. You have solidified my assumptions.
70% nitric acid is an azeotropic mixture, you won't get better percentage by distilling it alone. You'll need a dehydrating agent like sulfuric acid. But unless there is a specific need, i don't reccomend doing it since 70% nitric acid is perfectly good for the vast majority of reactions.
depends on what you started with. the cation that was originally in the nitrate salt will be present as well as chloride. So if you started with sodium nitrate you'll have sodium ions and chloride ions in the solution (as well as a copper)
I'm a Nitric acid panel operator in a fertilizer plant. I am using my girls channel at the moment. I retire in 12 years. Sounds like you are ready to step up and take my place..Cheers!
I have 2 questions, when you talk about recycling the copper from the dead reaction mixture by adding aluminum to it. What compound exactly is the dead reaction mixture, and what is it after reacting the aluminum?
The compound are probably copper nitrate and alkaline chloride salts with leftover HCl,by adding aluminum you are converting the copper ions into copper metal and turn aluminum into aluminum nitrate. The bubble are probably from the reaction of the leftover hydrochloric acid and aluminum,creating aluminum chloride.
I don't believe it's comparable to the Leidenfrost-Effect. My guess is that the Copper forms Copper Nitrate in the Nitric Acid: Cu + 4H+ + 4NO3- -> Cu(NO3)2 + 2NO2 + 2 H2O But even though Copper Nitrate is highly solluble, it won't dissolve in fuming Nitric Acid, due to the high Nitrate-Concentration shifting the Chemical Equilibrium to the left side: Cu(NO3)2 Cu2+ + 2NO3-
Well since this comment was a long time ago, I'm going to try and summarize my current thoughts. I think I was trying to say similar to the Leidenfrost-effect in the following way. If you were trying to melt Ice quickly, you would logically think Ice would melt quicker at higher temperature, but it's a little counter-intuitive to think that ice melts slower in boiling water. Likewise, If you were trying to react copper with Nitric acid, you would think higher purity acid would react with copper quicker, but It's also, counter-intuitive to think that a higher concentration slows the actual reaction. Bare in mind, this was 3 years ago, and I think I'm summarizing my thoughts accurately. :)
I agree with you that the intuition behind it is very similar to the Leidenfrost effect, everyone in the comments thread is thinking way too analytically. In the Leidenfrost effect, the desired action is inhibited by a gas layer formed by the action itself. In passivation, the desired action is inhibited by a protective layer formed by the action itself. They are really similar, I think people want to just show off their intelligence and only know how to via disagreement.
Wow this is very informative and simple to understand. It reminds me of many years ago as a student I had a very hard time with math and one teacher made a light Boulb light in my head that made it so clear. I'm a self thought chemist still learning at 66 yrs old.
The distilled from the grocery store near me contains ozone will that be a problem or do I need to air it out so to speak before using it ? Distilling my own has proven to not only be a pain but quite time consuming
Your description in the video says concentrated hydrochloric acid. When I have shopped for this, I have seen the word "concentrated" on acids from 37% all the way down to the 31.45% that you can buy at walmart. Are any of these okay to use, or do you need a specific concentration?
Dwight Gordon. I have the same question. I just recently acquired amonium nitrate, the only Hydrocloric acid I can access easily is 31% (muriatic acid) Have you found out if this is sufficient?
I'm still in the research stages, haven't acquired any as yet. If we haven't gotten any response by the time I am ready to try it out, I'll let you know what I find.
Dwight Gordon. I'm about to test 31.5% HCI myself. I found some old cold packs that contain amonium nitrate so I'm finially able to produce some nitric acid to process a bunch of high quality gold connector pins I have. I'll post my results as well
Your videos are very instructional. Im a small precious metal refiner and the cost of nitric acid is very expensive. Im almost prepared for processing 6,000 grams of silver and another 350 grams of some karat scrap gold. Im considering buying a simple distillation aperatious and wondered if maybe you could counsel me. I need to produce about 1.25
"How to make nitric acid? Just mix hydrochloric acid with...." "How to make hydrochloric acid? Oh, just mix sulfuric acid with...." "How to make sulfuric acid? Easy, just mix nitric acid with...." GAAAH! This is starting to resemble those irreducible complexity paradoxes from theory of evolution! ;[ How does one BOOTSTRAP this process to begin with when there's no acids around yet, just bare nature?
iron (ii) sulfate occurs pretty commonly in nature as a mineral and decomposes at 650 degrees c if you wanted a practical way to make a strong acid without access to any of them today nurdrage has a video where he makes HCl from sodium bisulfate (very easy to get as a ph lowering chemical in pools) and table salt.
"Here I will show you three different methods with three different nitrate bases you will not be able to buy, find, or make. But you will still waste 7 minutes watching this."
Plenty of things on youtube that are described but not accessible to most people. Like how to make nuclear weapons, jet aircraft, rocket ships and cars.
Typically used in organic synthesis as stated above, nitrate salts are found in fertilisers which allow growth much faster than what occurs naturally. The nitronium electrophile is used in making many medicines too, often for low heart rate disorders :)
***** you definitely look like an idiot because it is known for everyone that the concentration of toluene in things like paint thinners is too low to make anything. Tnt is not made anymore, by amateurs at least
Thebarnardfactor hey can you possible help me, if so let me tell you what happened so I tried the gas generator method and let no2 run through tubing and bubble into 50 ml of water, and I let it run for a good 15-20 minutes and I tested it by dropping copper into it and all I it did was bubble and bubble a lot but absolutely no color blue color change was observed nor was there any brown nitrogen dioxide gas produced, I've repeated this experiment multiple times now and I still get the same resultes, please help if you can:)
Yeah, same here, no brown Gas appeared. But I did do a ph test after and it was acidic. It barely reacted with the copper at all. I used the first method though. Note, don't go anywhere near the dead reacted mixture when you put in the aluminum. I was outside, and i still breathed in a ton of fumes.
Maybe it's at a really weak concentration like nurdrage said in his video thanks for replying, I've also had the suspicion it might be nitrous acid and a plane to run air with a bubbler in to the solution with the no2 gasses bubbling through it to oxidize the hno2 (nitrous acid) to hno3 (nitric acid) since there is a mixture of both when bubbling no2 through water
nitric acid .. and nitrile gloves? .. latex gloves? wont nitric acid cause those the burst into flames? wouldn't you be better off wearing none? and just have a bucket with sodium bicaranate and water handy?
Hi. Just wanted to ask, on the 2nd method is the toxic gas stays on the vacuum flask? does it (toxic fumes) not goes out along with the nitrogen dioxide to the graduated cylinder?
Hi NurdRage great video. I have a question , on your condenser their are two rubber hoses are they attached to anything? What would be the purpose of it ? Hope to hear from you, thanks .
Fascinating chemistry video excellent quality sir very well done keep up the good work fortunately for me if I want 68% nitric acid it's not necessary for me to synthesize it because I live in South Australia where it's completely legal to buy small amounts of 68% nitric acid online (buying no more than one container of 68% nitric acid in a container that contains no more than 5 liters of nitric acid is completely legal in South Australia)
Can you use 50 ml hydrogen peroxide instead of 50 ml water in first method to obtain a higher yield just like you did in method 2? Great videos by the way... Been reproducing many of your videos with great success. Thanks
I have always loved nitric acid, so powerful, yet such an interesting chemistry. Concentrated nitric or sulfuric acids are very unforgiving, so one small slipup makes you remember for life to treat it with great respect. Great video, good lab setup too!
hello all, I,m was short on funds and ordered a 10 ml graduated cylinder, what are the adjusted amounts for vacuum flask and 10 ml cylinder using peroxide, This is the best informational channel for all chemistry experiments , NurdRage you rock !
If you let the dead reaction mixture sit for a long time, it will form white needle like crystals. They are actually really cool looking. After this happens, if you try to wash out your glassware with water it creates a very resillant stain inside. What is the chemistry going on in this waste product? Thanks for all of your videos. Best on UA-cam
The solution at the beginning of the color of solution-minute section in green 1:57 km from the percentage? Is up to 40 or 50% Is it useful for the work of silver nitrate of silver alloy wish to answer this question of the importance of thank you for the wonderful video
Used to have a pint sized bottle of Nitric Acid for testing for gold, wound up giving most of it back to lab store just got a little paranoid some how the bottle would wind up getting broke since I didn't really have a good place to put it and I would wind up with major contamination mess on my hands.
Question: Acetic acid and copper produce copper (II) acetate. I thought the acetic acid was dissolving the copper, but you stated that only nitric acid dissolves copper. Can you explain the difference between the acetic acid and nitric acid reactions on copper, please? Thank you.
I’m trying to view your video with the nitrate test link in the description. However, it says it’s private. I’m not sure if that is intentional, if so could you recommend another video for me please?
Around 1:23 he says the copper reacts with Nitric Acid and Nitrate mixture" I had to rewind it thinking I missed something. He meant HCl(aq). Edit: I meant to say, I am glad I saw the process, now Nitric Acid is controlled, at least where I live and VERY hard to get.
What kind of yield could you expect on method 3 using stoichiometric amounts of nitrate salt and sulfuric acid and controlling temperature to avoid decomposition of nitric acid?
@nurdrage what can I do with the left over mixed chemical from the first method? Can that be recycled for another batch some how rather then disposing it. Stay Regulating!
Good stuff, I am new to this but catching on quick. I have access to high grade silver ore and need a lot of this acid to refine it, due to restrictions and cost, this seem to be a viable option. I took a sample to a coin shop and it tested out at .99 pure silver. The guy's eyes bugged out when he read the meter. I was told that on average the silver ore was about 80% silver and 20% lead. I want .999 or .9999 fine silver. Thank you for all that you do.
I wanted to show a wider range of approaches. If i didn't use water some viewers may get the impression water can't be used. Then i'd get questions like "couldn't you use water instead of hydrogen peroxide?" by showing both we see more perspectives and get a better handle on the underlying chemistry and how it can work in different ways.
Show me bruhda please
are you still alive? saw your vidio about 9 years ago
"If you blow air into it, it fumes!" "Do not inhale."
My all-time favourite nurd rage quote :)
That's not even what fuming nitric acid ACTUALLY is
pKai3 I know right? He sounds genuinely excited when he says it, then becomes serious again
Nitric acid smoke... don’t breathe this!
Blow, don't suck.
haha
Great video! Thanks for making this! When using sulfuric acid, can you use battery acid from an auto shop, or is that too dilute? Do you need to boil it down to a higher concentration?
You have to distil it
Wait, TKOR was here when he started his channel lol xp wtf
I don't know about this I just came because I saw the acid from saw
Any acid should work, but it'll bring over water when you distill it. Using concentrated acid is necessary to create fuming nitric acid.
Just order sulfuric online its like 25 for a liter depending where you get it
Its 2019 and you've become a "Dr. Stone" fan =P
Read my mind
As a chemistry student and a dr. Stone fan I give your comment a like
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Yep! lol
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Thanks for your quick reply!
The King of Random Grant?!
Thank you, Grant.
Love ya, grant
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I can't believe that he didn't reply to your comments
4:05 I wanted to just point out that you can distill fuming (above concentrated) nitric acid, you just need to use concentrated nitric acid and concentrated sulfuric acid and distill. The sulfuric acid likes water much more and will keep it in the flask while the almost pure nitric acid distills over. Great video!
When you watch too much Dr.Stone and you wanna do the magic stuff.
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Trust me bro I am here for the same reason. 🤣🤣
Omg heck yeah
Thank you for the great information. I used to love my Chemistry classes in college and Nitric acid was used in many experiments but getting a supply has never been easy. I saved all my old lab workbooks and notes and would love to set up a lab and do these experiments again.
15 years ago! That's wild!
I Love you Nerd Rage!
We all appreciate your videos!
You just dissolved my mind. Who knew chemistry could be so cool!?
Need this so i can make the revival formula
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This is like listening to the guy in SAW give a chemistry lecture.... which is FREAKING AWESOME
Instead of actually understanding the origin of the rule or why it applies you rely on unscientific catch phrases and insults?
Your so called "basic rule" only applies to certain limited set of circumstances. Primarily it applies to adding water to concentrated sulfuric acid. But if you don't believe me try this: Grab some vinegar in your kitchen (an acid) and add water to it. NOTHING will happen other than getting some diluted vinegar.
Try to be smarter and less insulting will you?
You forgot to add that vinegar is most commonly 5% acetic acid
I learned in High School chemistry 40 years ago to "Add acid to watah, just like you oughta."
I haven't run into any circumstances where that caused problems, even with vinegar, so it seems like a useful guideline.
@@brandonknight7240 im glad i wasnt the only one who heard this, but to dissolve copper means that the acid and coppers by product is water soluble. So hydrochloric acid can destroy copper its byproduct isnt water soluble. I believe is the answer
Thank you for your video clips, I'm just starting to refine metals with acids and I find your clip is so far the best example of this procedure.
Did it worked?
Sounds dangerous, do you have sufficient safety measures in place?
What is your safety measures may I ask?
@@anonamemous6865
He mentions using a fume hood (proper ventilation)
It's also safe practice to have a supply of baking soda readily accessible in order to neutralize any acid spills
In addition to proper housekeeping to avoid accidents and inadvertent contamination, have fire safety measures in place (for any lab work).
Another prudent step would be to have a safe storage process already in place to store the nitric acid.
Don't forget, do this when you have a clear head and a $1m life insurance policy with me as your beneficiary.
One last thing.....do this far away from other stored chemicals
Can we please get an updated version to do this perhaps with Saltpeter? Thanks
Saltpeter is potassium nitrate.
He mentioned you can use any pure nitrate salt.
You can follow the same instructions, and it will work
how did i get here...oh yes i started with why is gold so valuable and clicked like a zombie and now i'm here.
Any time I question handling a chemical or it's something I haven't done before I come here and check you and NileRed, Because you point out th dangers and safety precautions that should be taken. (Cody too but he caves in to the trolls when it comes to PPE) If you do revisit this one please consider mentioning your choice of gloves and why neoprene are so very very bad with nitric acid.
The eyes you save adding a couple of seconds to your videos might belong to one of my grand children. Because of their age differences, we started out. I'd pick their video to watch and then have them tell me what they saw. I was surprised at the level of retention. Now I'm scrambling to keep up with 11 of them.
I mention this because a couple of the older kids have decided to make their careers in chem related fields. Thought you might like to know, you Grant, Red, Elemental, and Cody have directly effected my family in a positive manner. Thank you gentlemen.
Thank you for that comprehensive response. I was hoping I wasn't going to get the moronic, pathetic responses I normally get when I ask a question. That makes complete sense and I was already thinking along those lines. You have solidified my assumptions.
Wow, I can remember making up a nitric-sulfuric 70/30 bright dip for our brass/copper parts before nickel plating...
Beautiful! Now I can germinate my cardamom seeds!
Lol.......thank you....I had to google the correlation between cardamom seed germination......HOW INTERESTING I MUST SAY......very nice cover lol
next stop, explosives. powerful explosives.
And this is the reason why we can't buy nitric acid for purposes other than making explosives.
adam3141 ssshhhh!!!the drones and NASA is watching .....lol
Silly Nilleys. I use it for refining gold and silver. Make money, not bombs!
Mitt Notned amen thats my objective too
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70% nitric acid is an azeotropic mixture, you won't get better percentage by distilling it alone. You'll need a dehydrating agent like sulfuric acid. But unless there is a specific need, i don't reccomend doing it since 70% nitric acid is perfectly good for the vast majority of reactions.
depends on what you started with. the cation that was originally in the nitrate salt will be present as well as chloride. So if you started with sodium nitrate you'll have sodium ions and chloride ions in the solution (as well as a copper)
Now all I need is some glycerin and sulfuric acid...
nitroglyercine?
Try making biodiesel to get glycerine as a waste product and you will need heet (methanol) and lye and vegetable oil
Mahamud Hussein graphite?
Nitrocellulose, smokeless gunpowder, is covered with graphite to prevent static electricity charge to blowing it up.
I'm a Nitric acid panel operator in a fertilizer plant. I am using my girls channel at the moment. I retire in 12 years. Sounds like you are ready to step up and take my place..Cheers!
canary skin?
Yay more views!
I have 2 questions, when you talk about recycling the copper from the dead reaction mixture by adding aluminum to it. What compound exactly is the dead reaction mixture, and what is it after reacting the aluminum?
The compound are probably copper nitrate and alkaline chloride salts with leftover HCl,by adding aluminum you are converting the copper ions into copper metal and turn aluminum into aluminum nitrate.
The bubble are probably from the reaction of the leftover hydrochloric acid and aluminum,creating aluminum chloride.
You are the coolest person i have never met, keep rockin on science dude.
Who’s here after watching the first episode of Dr. Stone ? :)
What is dr. Stone
Uhhh me
Me
Yeah I watch dr.stone but I wanted to learn how to make this stuff for oxidizer
Hey! I would like to know the equation for that reaction.
Which one the first the second or the third
Hmm, I had no idea that stronger acids form a Pseudo-Leidenfrost effect.
Good video :)
I don't believe it's comparable to the Leidenfrost-Effect.
My guess is that the Copper forms Copper Nitrate in the Nitric Acid:
Cu + 4H+ + 4NO3- -> Cu(NO3)2 + 2NO2 + 2 H2O
But even though Copper Nitrate is highly solluble, it won't dissolve in fuming Nitric Acid, due to the high Nitrate-Concentration shifting the Chemical Equilibrium to the left side:
Cu(NO3)2 Cu2+ + 2NO3-
Well since this comment was a long time ago, I'm going to try and summarize my current thoughts.
I think I was trying to say similar to the Leidenfrost-effect in the following way.
If you were trying to melt Ice quickly, you would logically think Ice would melt quicker at higher temperature, but it's a little counter-intuitive to think that ice melts slower in boiling water.
Likewise,
If you were trying to react copper with Nitric acid, you would think higher purity acid would react with copper quicker, but It's also, counter-intuitive to think that a higher concentration slows the actual reaction.
Bare in mind, this was 3 years ago, and I think I'm summarizing my thoughts accurately.
:)
Actually, it's because you form copper oxide.
Hm, that also sounds possible.
I agree with you that the intuition behind it is very similar to the Leidenfrost effect, everyone in the comments thread is thinking way too analytically.
In the Leidenfrost effect, the desired action is inhibited by a gas layer formed by the action itself.
In passivation, the desired action is inhibited by a protective layer formed by the action itself.
They are really similar, I think people want to just show off their intelligence and only know how to via disagreement.
Wow this is very informative and simple to understand. It reminds me of many years ago as a student I had a very hard time with math and one teacher made a light Boulb light in my head that made it so clear. I'm a self thought chemist still learning at 66 yrs old.
The distilled from the grocery store near me contains ozone will that be a problem or do I need to air it out so to speak before using it ?
Distilling my own has proven to not only be a pain but quite time consuming
Not only nitric acid dissolves copper,peracetic acid does.
Peracetic acid is a real acid, even if it only exists in solution. Just like carbonic acid.
Exactly dude full of it
I see NileRed finally hit puberty. Congrats!
I bet you can make some really good home-brew alcohol.
Vacuum flask is 500ml I will have to do small amounts for Nitric Acid till funds improve, Keep on Rocking!
Could you put any videos on the synthesis of coordination compounds?
Your description in the video says concentrated hydrochloric acid. When I have shopped for this, I have seen the word "concentrated" on acids from 37% all the way down to the 31.45% that you can buy at walmart. Are any of these okay to use, or do you need a specific concentration?
Dwight Gordon. I have the same question. I just recently acquired amonium nitrate, the only Hydrocloric acid I can access easily is 31% (muriatic acid) Have you found out if this is sufficient?
I'm still in the research stages, haven't acquired any as yet. If we haven't gotten any response by the time I am ready to try it out, I'll let you know what I find.
What I do know from watching other vids is that the words "hydrochloric" and "muriatic" are used interchangeably for the same acids.
Dwight Gordon. I'm about to test 31.5% HCI myself. I found some old cold packs that contain amonium nitrate so I'm finially able to produce some nitric acid to process a bunch of high quality gold connector pins I have. I'll post my results as well
Description says you can use different concentrations, but adjust the amount of water so the acid:water ratio remains the same as in the video
I just came here to know how a bit of platinum could make infinite nitric acid....
this is freaking cool!!!!
Your videos are very instructional. Im a small precious metal refiner and the cost of nitric acid is very expensive. Im almost prepared for processing 6,000 grams of silver and another 350 grams of some karat scrap gold.
Im considering buying a simple distillation aperatious and wondered if maybe you could counsel me. I need to produce about 1.25
In the 1st method shown could you substitute the hydrochloric acid for sulfuric acid,and if so would the yield be higher or lower do you think?
"How to make nitric acid? Just mix hydrochloric acid with...."
"How to make hydrochloric acid? Oh, just mix sulfuric acid with...."
"How to make sulfuric acid? Easy, just mix nitric acid with...."
GAAAH! This is starting to resemble those irreducible complexity paradoxes from theory of evolution! ;[
How does one BOOTSTRAP this process to begin with when there's no acids around yet, just bare nature?
u can get sulfur trioxide from the decomposition of many metal sulfates at very high temperatures, which reacts with water to form sulfuric acid
@@scottjohnson7433 Ok, cool. Where can I get those metal sulfates then?
And how high the temperatures I would need? Is fire enough?
iron (ii) sulfate occurs pretty commonly in nature as a mineral and decomposes at 650 degrees c
if you wanted a practical way to make a strong acid without access to any of them today nurdrage has a video where he makes HCl from sodium bisulfate (very easy to get as a ph lowering chemical in pools) and table salt.
That's sorcery hahahaha Dr. Stone fan here
Which episode used any of this techniques?
"Here I will show you three different methods with three different nitrate bases you will not be able to buy, find, or make. But you will still waste 7 minutes watching this."
Plenty of things on youtube that are described but not accessible to most people. Like how to make nuclear weapons, jet aircraft, rocket ships and cars.
Do I have to join your channel/patreon, in order to see private videos? I'm trying to see the video of yours that has to do with nitrogen testing
Can you please tell me how much concentration will the second method will give
nice but what is it useful for
to burn ex's face
HalfLife2Beta loooads of stuff, can be used to make nitrate salts, to add nitro or nitrate groups to compounds, has many aplicatons
making nitrate salts, making nitrocellulose
Typically used in organic synthesis as stated above, nitrate salts are found in fertilisers which allow growth much faster than what occurs naturally. The nitronium electrophile is used in making many medicines too, often for low heart rate disorders :)
*****
you definitely look like an idiot because it is known for everyone that the concentration of toluene in things like paint thinners is too low to make anything. Tnt is not made anymore, by amateurs at least
No matter how i do this, it won't work.
Im using ammonium nitrate, and a strong cleaning chemical that contains hcl.
What you need is a concentrated sample of HCl so the cleaning solution won't work as well
Would 32% muriatic acid work?
Thebarnardfactor hey can you possible help me, if so let me tell you what happened so I tried the gas generator method and let no2 run through tubing and bubble into 50 ml of water, and I let it run for a good 15-20 minutes and I tested it by dropping copper into it and all I it did was bubble and bubble a lot but absolutely no color blue color change was observed nor was there any brown nitrogen dioxide gas produced, I've repeated this experiment multiple times now and I still get the same resultes, please help if you can:)
Yeah, same here, no brown Gas appeared. But I did do a ph test after and it was acidic. It barely reacted with the copper at all.
I used the first method though.
Note, don't go anywhere near the dead reacted mixture when you put in the aluminum.
I was outside, and i still breathed in a ton of fumes.
Maybe it's at a really weak concentration like nurdrage said in his video thanks for replying, I've also had the suspicion it might be nitrous acid and a plane to run air with a bubbler in to the solution with the no2 gasses bubbling through it to oxidize the hno2 (nitrous acid) to hno3 (nitric acid) since there is a mixture of both when bubbling no2 through water
nitric acid .. and nitrile gloves? .. latex gloves? wont nitric acid cause those the burst into flames? wouldn't you be better off wearing none? and just have a bucket with sodium bicaranate and water handy?
+Wade Hutchinson that's vinyl gloves, not sure what the fuming nitric acid will do to it though.
Hi. Just wanted to ask, on the 2nd method is the toxic gas stays on the vacuum flask? does it (toxic fumes) not goes out along with the nitrogen dioxide to the graduated cylinder?
good video but why, wen you use conc. sulphuric acid and pot. nitrate, you don't respect the molar ratio? there is some pratical motivation?
the video from start to finish is brilliant.
strange to see so many people that dont have a clue of how a condenser works watching this... but awesome video, i'll start producing my own hno3
Hi NurdRage great video. I have a question , on your condenser their are two rubber hoses are they attached to anything? What would be the purpose of it ? Hope to hear from you, thanks .
Cold water in, warmer water out. It's a condenser...
Very helpful, because it is really difficult to buy nitric acid in Japan.
Fascinating chemistry video excellent quality sir very well done keep up the good work fortunately for me if I want 68% nitric acid it's not necessary for me to synthesize it because I live in South Australia where it's completely legal to buy small amounts of 68% nitric acid online (buying no more than one container of 68% nitric acid in a container that contains no more than 5 liters of nitric acid is completely legal in South Australia)
If you added zinc to recover the copper would it still work but make something resembling brass instead?
I have wanted to know how to make this for so long. Thanks for the video.
Can you use 50 ml hydrogen peroxide instead of 50 ml water in first method to obtain a higher yield just like you did in method 2? Great videos by the way... Been reproducing many of your videos with great success. Thanks
will it work the first method using not concentrated hydrochloric acid?
I have always loved nitric acid, so powerful, yet such an interesting chemistry. Concentrated nitric or sulfuric acids are very unforgiving, so one small slipup makes you remember for life to treat it with great respect. Great video, good lab setup too!
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Thanks, this is gonna be really helpful for... A project i'm working on
Is the acid you show at 6:22 all you got out of the reaction? It seems so little in contrast to how much you were distilling
Hello,i wonder that i could use H2SO4 with an unknown concentration as an alternative for the HCl?
A@1:30 : I thought Nitrogen Dioxide dissolved in water to make Nitrous Acid. Not Nitric Acid. Am I wrong?
hello all, I,m was short on funds and ordered a 10 ml graduated cylinder, what are the adjusted amounts for vacuum flask and 10 ml cylinder using peroxide, This is the best informational channel for all chemistry experiments , NurdRage you rock !
What is the role of those two silicone hoses?
will pouring iron instead of aluminum work to extract copper from the mixture?
Of all the videos you've uploaded, this is one that I wish you'd revisit the most. It's really dated and it shows, but it's still a great video.
If you let the dead reaction mixture sit for a long time, it will form white needle like crystals. They are actually really cool looking. After this happens, if you try to wash out your glassware with water it creates a very resillant stain inside. What is the chemistry going on in this waste product?
Thanks for all of your videos. Best on UA-cam
The solution at the beginning of the color of solution-minute section in green 1:57 km from the percentage? Is up to 40 or 50% Is it useful for the work of silver nitrate of silver alloy wish to answer this question of the importance of thank you for the wonderful video
Used to have a pint sized bottle of Nitric Acid for testing for gold, wound up giving most of it back to lab store just got a little paranoid some how the bottle would wind up getting broke since I didn't really have a good place to put it and I would wind up with major contamination mess on my hands.
...seriously one of my most favorite videos to watch
Question: Acetic acid and copper produce copper (II) acetate. I thought the acetic acid was dissolving the copper, but you stated that only nitric acid dissolves copper. Can you explain the difference between the acetic acid and nitric acid reactions on copper, please? Thank you.
I’m trying to view your video with the nitrate test link in the description. However, it says it’s private. I’m not sure if that is intentional, if so could you recommend another video for me please?
Around 1:23 he says the copper reacts with Nitric Acid and Nitrate mixture" I had to rewind it thinking I missed something. He meant HCl(aq).
Edit: I meant to say, I am glad I saw the process, now Nitric Acid is controlled, at least where I live and VERY hard to get.
Can all of the options be used in refining gold?
How concentrated does the sulfuric acid have to be? Is battery acid enough? (Battery acid is around 36-38 percent)
You need 93 or 98% acid
Battery acid might not be enough but you can boil it for concentrating it
When doing the kno3 and sulfuric acid what would be the ideal ratio for the best results
Please tell me at the last method whats the two pipes at the middle ??
If you are talking about the 2 yellow orange looking tubes,they are connected to a water source.
What is the stoichiometric ratios for this you said 100 ml was too much so what would be the correct amount of sulfuric acid?
Could you use sulfuric acid from car batteries or would it have impurities that would mess up the chance to get pure nitric acid?
Chemistry is so cool and fun! Thanks for the great videos!
What kind of yield could you expect on method 3 using stoichiometric amounts of nitrate salt and sulfuric acid and controlling temperature to avoid decomposition of nitric acid?
Wow that tape trick to get the cover out was top notch.
will the second method better for gold recovery, as nictric acid is very hard to get.
@nurdrage what can I
do with the left over mixed chemical from the first method?
Can that be recycled for another batch some how rather then disposing it.
Stay Regulating!
شكرا لك ، اذا لديك فيديو عن كيفية صنع حمض الكبريتيك المركز ، هل يمكنك اعطائي الرابط للفيديو ؟
Here you go:
ua-cam.com/video/okvvD3-DF9U/v-deo.html
He has a lot of sulfuric acid making video
Can you use liquid fertilizer in place of Nitrate Salt?
Good stuff, I am new to this but catching on quick.
I have access to high grade silver ore and need a lot of this acid to refine it, due to restrictions and cost, this seem to be a viable option.
I took a sample to a coin shop and it tested out at .99 pure silver.
The guy's eyes bugged out when he read the meter.
I was told that on average the silver ore was about 80% silver and 20% lead.
I want .999 or .9999 fine silver.
Thank you for all that you do.
I also have a bit of silver ❤
Can I use sulfuric acid instead of Hydrochloric acid for the second route?
Thank you for your second method of HNO3 production. I can do this make some acid to finally process various ewastes for gold recovery and refining.
Wonderful👏 now I'll combine my nitric acid with Ammonium bicarbonate 😀
Not a good idea
What causes sulfuric acid to react to potassium nitrate instantly without heat? I'm assuming it's to lower grade chems. Thank you
How much concentration does the hydrocholoric acid method produce in the nitric acid?
When NO2 dissolves in water, to produce both HNO2 and HNO3.
2NO2(g)+H2O(l)----->HNO3(aq)+HNO2(aq).
I like your videos.
Hey Mr.NurdRage!Can I use 17% HCl or sth like 23%?This is the only concentration sold in the shops in my area!Will it react with NaNO3 to make HNO3?