Just a heads up. A native speaker would have probably used "My English has improved". Using "has" changes the phrase from simple past tense(an action that happened in the past and is done) to present perfect tense. Present perfect tense is used to indicate a past action that has consequences that still effect you in the present. Because your improved English is helping you in the present but happened in the past, you want to use present perfect tense "has improved".
Thank you for including the dangers of lab gloves with fuming nitric. I've been burned many times with fuming nitric on bare skin and it never results in much more than a 1st degree burn if washed quickly. I actually proved to a fellow amature chemist what nitric does by placing a tiny drop on the back of one finger for 60 seconds. Felt like lemon juice in a paper cut and did blister, but my finger did not dissolve. Much better to not have burning plastic on your hand!
Yeah.....this guy has got it down!! Superb explanations, highly accurate......very fine quality content. I am surprised that you don't have the same/better following than "Nurd rage" because your filming of the experiments are superb, the dialogue/your descriptions supercedes that of anybody else on the scientific demonstration scale. I have only discovered your videos recently but they are all awesome ;-)
+rajesh shahi rajesh shahi No, hydrochloric acid only comes in lower concentrations (in the neighborhood of 30%), so your nitric acid would be diluted with a lot of water. Even if you maintained the temperature under the boiling point of water, the nitric acid would form an azetrope, and you concentration wouldn't get much higher than what you can get commercially. That and there's also probably chlorine contamination or whatever, but I'm not a professional chemist, so don't quote me on that :)
I would highly recommend chilling the sulfuric acid before mixing, or slowly combining the two as the reaction is quite exothermic and under its own heat will decompose the product.
@@tokenlau7519 Dark matter has been well verified at this point. Nevermind the fact that there have been observational conclusions of it. Hell the sheer number of peer review literature demonstrating this should be an indication to you that someones opinion on it is just that, their opinion. The fact that they hold this view despite the evidence and research shows they are not practicing good science, they are being hucksters
Exceptional content & very clear & concise, great demonstration of the substances ability's & dangers & the equipment functionality during the processing. Well done from the UK.
Excellent video! I have seen numerous Nitric Acid video's, but yours was different in that you explain about the fumes not clearing if the heat is too high, the lab gloves and the effects and also not to use Ammonuim Nitrate as the amonia gas will compromise the finished product. Good work, I hope to see more.
Thanks sir for such a detailed explanation and demonstrations of chemicals often used in chemical experiments. Some of them such as HNO3 esp fuming is really dangerous!
I use PVC gloves. I didn't try to put it into a beaker and left for a while, but direct contact is safe enough to have time to wash them on hands in the water without any visible damage. PVC is not very elastic and it's not hard to tear them, but they are as cheap as nitrile and handled with caution are fine complement to nitrile ones.
can I use HCL instead on H2S04, HCL is much more easier obtainable at Home Depot or something, will it affect the cocnc. of the HN03 yield?, also wouldn't most of the yield be lost during the process because of NO2 escaping the nitric acid and mostly water being in the collection flask?
Sulphuric acid is available in many Home Depots as drain cleaner, just make sure it says sulphuric acid. You can just boil the excess water off and complete the reaction with it. If you can't get ahold of sulphuric and only have hcl, I'd recommend watching nurdrage's video on making nitric acid, the process is a bit different and the yield is lower but it's better than nothing.
I love the way how you explain the experiment ! Thanks for uploading such informative videos ! I hope you will make more and more such clear demonstrative videos in future All the best !! .. J.R. Ghimire ( From Nepal )
You can use NH4NO3 (ammonium nitate), just aswell as you can use any other nitrate salts. Decomposition of ammonium nitrate becomes an issue at 200 deg. C. Way after your HNO3 has completely decomposed into NO2.
On lab gloves, use Viton which is chemically related to Teflon,PTFE, which is almost completely inert only reacts with certain metals like Mg. Caveat- very expensive like >$100 pair. I love RFNA as a storable rocket oxidizer, safer and cheaper than peroxide and N2O. Enjoy, Rocketmentor
something i'd like to point out- while latex or nitrile gloves won't last long against concentrated or fuming nitric acid, good lab practice dictates that if you even think you might have any spill on your gloves, you must immediately remove and replace them. as such, the gloves aren't so much resisting indefinitely, but rather just buying you a few extra seconds (much longer than it takes to remove the gloves).
Considering the Kjeldahl nitrogen determination method, ammonium should stay in the reaction vessel. However, you may or may not have problems with symproportionation towards dinitrogen oxide or just dinitrogen (?)
I think ammonium nitrate can be used, and is actually very nice to use, as I`ve done, and I made about 0,5 liters of 80%(based on density) nitric acid.
Yeah, I think you can use it, it just degrades the yield a little if the temperature isn't controlled well. I remember reading somewhere where it was explained exactly why ammonium nitrate isn't ideal. However, it is definitely more than use able.
Hi. I need an advice. After pickling a stainless steel part in nitric acid that part must be rinsed in a DI water. But after that the water will become a toxic waste. What is the right way to neutralize/dispose that water?
is the fuming nitric acid you made here red fuming nitric acid or white fuming nitric acid? just wondering since i want to know how pure the product is.
Saw your video! Very informative and pedagogical. I just have a question. How can you determinate the exact precent of the nitric acid you do? Seen in other experiments how you put your chemical in a narrow high measuring cylinder and then put a meter in it. I do not know the word because English is not my native language. It looks like a thermometer and it floating in the liquid messuring the dencity. Would be so happy if a pro helps me. Happy holidays from Sweden
I noticed that you mention to add 60ml conc. sulfuric acid for every 110g of potassium nitrate, but according to stoichiometry we will only need 53.355ml of conc. Sulfuric acid?
Can you believe fuming nitric acid has been used in treatment for warts? Latex gloves are adequate for protection when dealing with small quantities of fuming nitric acid.
Hey ! I hope someone will find the time to answer me :p : In this video you show us how to make highly concentrated Nitric acid and in another video you told that acid were most of the time diluted with water ... So I was wondering , knowing that boiling temp of nitric acid is 121°C and water 100 °C, why not simply boil off the water to "purify" the acid ? Would the reaction produce toxic fumes or something like that ? or is it just not how it works ? Thanks for reading and hoping for an answer :p
The boiling point of nitric acid is 83°C and forms an azeotrope with 68% nitric acid and 32% water by mass. So you can boil it theoretically to that concentration but any further boiling wouldn't increase the concentration.
Could you make a video about how to produce KOH? It would be handy, because I'm intersted in how it works and I want to usee it as an electrolyte. Great video, btw. :D
Them cheap clear food grade gloves dont burst into flames like the nitrile gloves or melt like the latex gloves but I still wouldn't recommend using them just wash off your hands as fast as possible
Hi, great and extremely helpful video! Thanks. By the way, can you please make a video on the synthesis of benzyl methyl ketone via chloroacetone and benzene? I'm doing research on anticoagulants using bacteriophages and I need a way to synthesize benzyl methyl ketone (1-phenyl-2-propanone) and use it to make control products. My RA is having a hard time finding the materials for reference, so I think a video would help a lot. Thanks!
It seems to me that this is a highly excess amount of Potassium nitrate? are the salts Unused Potassium nitrate?? or is it some product of the reaction vessel?
+Gugglepluss Suques As far as I can tell from chemical resistance charts, HDPE is not resistant to nitric acid at concentrations greater than 90%. HDPE probably wouldn't be the best solution, or at least something I wouldn't want to try until I tested the glove by some means. YMMV.
maybe I'm asking a stupid question but isn't way much easier to just boil common 60-69% nitric acid and condense the fumes if you just want to obtain higher concentrated nitric acid?
EMandMORE That doesn't work because Nitric Acid forms an azeotrope with water at about 68% concentration, and boils this azeotrope boils at a specific temperature. As such, you'll boil away both water and nitric acid and your concentration wouldn't change.
hey I was wondering if you could do an extraction of caffeine from different energy drinks and see how close you can get to the amount produced compared to the amount that they say is in the drinks.
Great video (like all of them:) ), but I have a question - will it change anything if I will use this method but without connector between condenser and collecting flask?
JurineX94 that shouldnt be a huge problem. Except you will do 2 things. A) your HNO3 might absorb water and become less concentrated and B) you will make A LOT of fumes, which can be dangerous.
I am taking some time off of chemistry work for now. I will continue to upload videos because I have a small stockpile though. When I get back to work, likely in a week or so, I will work on a phenol synthesis!
+pyrobros ive actually orderes it twice. Once from the US and another time from the UK. The first time it got stopped ar the border and i had to tell the government why i needed it. The second time there was no issue
+NileRed you can get falling leaf stump remover as well its 100%potassium nitrate and since I live in Toronto it cost 13.99 from home hardware just order it from the store or to your door step and you'll have one pound of pure potassium nitrate but the down side is some of the potassium nitrate comes is beads but you can just strain it out any ways it's a good source of potassium nitrate so I would maybe recommend it and plus you won't have any problems with authorities.
I was under the impression that the nitrate stump remover was harder to get in Canada. Are you saying you can get it as long as you order it directly from the store? Anyways, there is actually a hydroponics store near my house where you can get potassium nitrate fertilizer (along with 25% H2O2 amongst other things) as long as you explain to them why you need it (I always just said I'm a chemistry student) they'll usually be fine with selling you it. So if you have anything like that near you it's worth a shot.
Did you actually get fuming nitric acid from your reaction?? It appears you used a bought product for the [penny] experiments at the end instead of using the stuff you produced
I was wondering if calcium nitrate would work just as well, as it is more readily available than the other nitrated salts in my area, not to mention much cheaper
Interesting. I personally prefer electrolysis in a pressure chamber to form my Nitric acid; Far safer and easy to produce sustaining quantaties over time.
hey i dont know if you have done it already (if you did can you put a link below?) but could you make a close to 100% nitric acid? I heard it could be done via sulfuric acid (since it has a hygroscopic effect more dominant than nitric acid?) thanks in advance :)
If I react sulfuric acid and sodium nitrate yielding a distillate of fuming nitric acid, what am I left with in my boiling flask? Is it sodium metabisulfite or sodium bisulfate? What can I use this leftover molten salt for and how can I remove it from glassware without recrystallization occurring. It's a huge pain in the . .Thank you in advance .
I remember way back in elementary a chemist came over and did this and I inhaled it all and someone dared me to touch it so I did and after a day it looked swollin and then torn with blood.
David Darras Pulmonary adema is a life-threatening condition. As in, if you had it "way back in elementary school", you would have died. Like, bleeding through your lungs, coughing up whole chunks life-threatening.
Scaling up any chemistry is risky unless you really know what you are doing (i.e. are a chemical engineer), the ratios would remain the same but heating and cooling take much longer not to mention that a small flask loses much more heat in proportion to a large one, so thermal runaways are always a danger with scaling up not to mention many other problems that I wouldn't know. It's *much* safer to stick to millimolar scale. chemists leave scaling up to chemical engineers and specialised process chemists.
+razie85 You can use almost every nitrate salt, but calcium nitrate has two disadvantages compared to KNO3: it can form a tetrahydrate, which contains only 69% Ca(NO3)2, but there is also an anhydrous form, too and Calciumsulfate is poorly soluble. It may form incrustations in the flask, which impairs the reaction of "inner layers" with the sulphuric acid.
Wow, that's way simpler than expected to make fuming nitric acid.
These older videos of yours are still excellent!
I agree, but it almost sounds like I’m listening to a chemistry audiobook lol
43rdliekr
Indeed. Targeted at a more mature audience than pop-sci kids.
Clear & understandable no-nonsensce explanation.! As a non-English speaking, Chemistry fan I love it.!
Thanks!
Indeed. My English improved even further by watching NileRed :D Clear language and very understandable for English students.
Just a heads up. A native speaker would have probably used "My English has improved". Using "has" changes the phrase from simple past tense(an action that happened in the past and is done) to present perfect tense. Present perfect tense is used to indicate a past action that has consequences that still effect you in the present. Because your improved English is helping you in the present but happened in the past, you want to use present perfect tense "has improved".
Thank you for including the dangers of lab gloves with fuming nitric. I've been burned many times with fuming nitric on bare skin and it never results in much more than a 1st degree burn if washed quickly. I actually proved to a fellow amature chemist what nitric does by placing a tiny drop on the back of one finger for 60 seconds. Felt like lemon juice in a paper cut and did blister, but my finger did not dissolve. Much better to not have burning plastic on your hand!
No problem. I will post a video eventually where I pour acid on my hands...
Nile Red Small amounts! Infection sets in with these burns and lingers for months!
SMOBY44 I got a small burn and it's gone.
christopher vester It might work to make some HNO3, but not like in this video. You need sulfuric acid because it doesn't have much water in it.
christopher vester Unfortunately it is not well suited for this!
Yeah.....this guy has got it down!!
Superb explanations, highly accurate......very fine quality content.
I am surprised that you don't have the same/better following than "Nurd rage" because your filming of the experiments are superb, the dialogue/your descriptions supercedes that of anybody else on the scientific demonstration scale.
I have only discovered your videos recently but they are all awesome ;-)
Thank you very much!
+Nile Red Is 96% concentrated (by weight) sulfuric acid good enough for this?
Yeah it should be. I used 96-98%
+Nile Red can we use conc.hydrochloric acid instead of sulfuric acid
+rajesh shahi rajesh shahi No, hydrochloric acid only comes in lower concentrations (in the neighborhood of 30%), so your nitric acid would be diluted with a lot of water. Even if you maintained the temperature under the boiling point of water, the nitric acid would form an azetrope, and you concentration wouldn't get much higher than what you can get commercially. That and there's also probably chlorine contamination or whatever, but I'm not a professional chemist, so don't quote me on that :)
This channel never gets old!
Awesome! I love how you narrate and explain your experiments! Keep it up.
Thanks!
I would highly recommend chilling the sulfuric acid before mixing, or slowly combining the two as the reaction is quite exothermic and under its own heat will decompose the product.
can you make some concentrated dark matter? ;)
You cannot make something that does not exist (see "Dark Matter Does Not Exist - Physics with an edge").
@@tokenlau7519 u haven’t watched rick n morty
@@tokenlau7519 Dark matter has been well verified at this point. Nevermind the fact that there have been observational conclusions of it. Hell the sheer number of peer review literature demonstrating this should be an indication to you that someones opinion on it is just that, their opinion. The fact that they hold this view despite the evidence and research shows they are not practicing good science, they are being hucksters
@@StormsandSaugeye None of what you said is true.
All of the acids: I’m gonna fine if you touched me
Nitric acid: *Fuming fuming fuming*
Exceptional content & very clear & concise, great demonstration of the substances ability's & dangers & the equipment functionality during the processing. Well done from the UK.
Excellent video! I have seen numerous Nitric Acid video's, but yours was different in that you explain about the fumes not clearing if the heat is too high, the lab gloves and the effects and also not to use Ammonuim Nitrate as the amonia gas will compromise the finished product. Good work, I hope to see more.
Thanks!
I really enjoy your videos! Keep up the exceptional work!
Thanks sir for such a detailed explanation and demonstrations of chemicals often used in chemical experiments. Some of them such as HNO3 esp fuming is really dangerous!
Absolutly top educative video!! especially the end with the gloves. An enormous like for your job man
I use PVC gloves. I didn't try to put it into a beaker and left for a while, but direct contact is safe enough to have time to wash them on hands in the water without any visible damage. PVC is not very elastic and it's not hard to tear them, but they are as cheap as nitrile and handled with caution are fine complement to nitrile ones.
it's also useful for singly substituted organics... you just need to keep the temp low and watch the reaction.
If I wasn't on some watchlist before, I'm definitely on one now...
Vacuum distillation works quite well for this synth.
Excellent video, very clear and well narrated.
can I use HCL instead on H2S04, HCL is much more easier obtainable at Home Depot or something, will it affect the cocnc. of the HN03 yield?, also wouldn't most of the yield be lost during the process because of NO2 escaping the nitric acid and mostly water being in the collection flask?
Sulphuric acid is available in many Home Depots as drain cleaner, just make sure it says sulphuric acid. You can just boil the excess water off and complete the reaction with it. If you can't get ahold of sulphuric and only have hcl, I'd recommend watching nurdrage's video on making nitric acid, the process is a bit different and the yield is lower but it's better than nothing.
+MineCralex No, HCl won't work!
I love the way how you explain the experiment ! Thanks for uploading such informative videos ! I hope you will make more and more such clear demonstrative videos in future
All the best !! .. J.R. Ghimire ( From Nepal )
Did anyone else notice that he was wearing normal lab gloves when pouring the fuming nitric acid on the gloves in the beaker?
You can use NH4NO3 (ammonium nitate), just aswell as you can use any other nitrate salts. Decomposition of ammonium nitrate becomes an issue at 200 deg. C. Way after your HNO3 has completely decomposed into NO2.
can I use leaad nitrate?
correct me if I’m wrong, but the actual problem is that the Ammonia gas will react with nitric acid as an acid base neutralisation.
@@kashyaptandel5212 Consider yourself corrected. Ammonia would be produced in strongly basic conditions, not acidic.
On lab gloves, use Viton which is chemically related to Teflon,PTFE, which is almost completely inert only reacts with certain metals like Mg. Caveat- very expensive like >$100 pair. I love RFNA as a storable rocket oxidizer, safer and cheaper than peroxide and N2O. Enjoy, Rocketmentor
loving that canadian technical glass dude
Ammonium nitrate does not produce ammonia....i've used it once to make nitric acid and haven't had a single problem. Also great synthesis!
This is a very nice demonstration!
All I could concentrate on during that video was the smiley beside the beaker on the right.
8 years later and he's still on the run from the Canadian Government
And that's the reason why we hardly ever wore gloves in the chemistry lab at the uni! ;-)
something i'd like to point out- while latex or nitrile gloves won't last long against concentrated or fuming nitric acid, good lab practice dictates that if you even think you might have any spill on your gloves, you must immediately remove and replace them. as such, the gloves aren't so much resisting indefinitely, but rather just buying you a few extra seconds (much longer than it takes to remove the gloves).
Man I absolutely LOVE your videos, but you really should make legal disclaimers in your videos. I'd hate to see you get sued or something
Omg pennies! I remember those!
Considering the Kjeldahl nitrogen determination method, ammonium should stay in the reaction vessel. However, you may or may not have problems with symproportionation towards dinitrogen oxide or just dinitrogen (?)
I think ammonium nitrate can be used, and is actually very nice to use, as I`ve done, and I made about 0,5 liters of 80%(based on density) nitric acid.
Yeah, I think you can use it, it just degrades the yield a little if the temperature isn't controlled well. I remember reading somewhere where it was explained exactly why ammonium nitrate isn't ideal. However, it is definitely more than use able.
Hey! I must say this was really easy and helpful..I had to increase the temperature though..
This guy won't bake the World's Purest Cookie
No. Nooooo
2014 was 7 years ago😭😭😭😭
Hi. I need an advice.
After pickling a stainless steel part in nitric acid that part must be rinsed in a DI water.
But after that the water will become a toxic waste.
What is the right way to neutralize/dispose that water?
is the fuming nitric acid you made here red fuming nitric acid or white fuming nitric acid? just wondering since i want to know how pure the product is.
Saw your video! Very informative and pedagogical.
I just have a question. How can you determinate the exact precent of the nitric acid you do?
Seen in other experiments how you put your chemical in a narrow high measuring cylinder and then put a meter in it. I do not know the word because English is not my native language. It looks like a thermometer and it floating in the liquid messuring the dencity.
Would be so happy if a pro helps me. Happy holidays from Sweden
yikes
I'm gonna go back to the new version of this vid
How concentrated should the sulfuric acid be? Is 93% ok or is 98% necessary?
Both will do.
Informative and illustratrative tks
I noticed that you mention to add 60ml conc. sulfuric acid for every 110g of potassium nitrate, but according to stoichiometry we will only need 53.355ml of conc. Sulfuric acid?
Adding extra acid helps to drive the equilibrium to the right. Le chatelier's principle.
Can you believe fuming nitric acid has been used in treatment for warts? Latex gloves are adequate for protection when dealing with small quantities of fuming nitric acid.
Is THAT what the teacher is trying to make at the start of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971 w/ Gene Wilder)? 😂
When greasing the joints could I use Vaseline? will this react with anything in the experiment?
the problem i found when using vaseline is that it melts and runs into your solutions
Lubricate your joints with a drop or two of 98% sulfuric acid. Old lab trick.
Hey ! I hope someone will find the time to answer me :p : In this video you show us how to make highly concentrated Nitric acid and in another video you told that acid were most of the time diluted with water ... So I was wondering , knowing that boiling temp of nitric acid is 121°C and water 100 °C, why not simply boil off the water to "purify" the acid ? Would the reaction produce toxic fumes or something like that ? or is it just not how it works ?
Thanks for reading and hoping for an answer :p
The boiling point of nitric acid is 83°C and forms an azeotrope with 68% nitric acid and 32% water by mass. So you can boil it theoretically to that concentration but any further boiling wouldn't increase the concentration.
Could you make a video about how to produce KOH? It would be handy, because I'm intersted in how it works and I want to usee it as an electrolyte. Great video, btw. :D
+entemomohTV Drop a chunk of K into water, evaporate and crystallize; presto, potassium hydroxide! ;)
0:01 make sure you use a fumhood. I love my fumhood. my fumhood is used everyday.
Dilution is solution for pollution
@@koikogo The solution to pollution is dilution.
am i the only one distracted by the irony of the "made in the usa" funnel above the maple leaf neck of the flask?
I simply use potassium nitrate and fuming 38% hydrochloric acid
Them cheap clear food grade gloves dont burst into flames like the nitrile gloves or melt like the latex gloves but I still wouldn't recommend using them just wash off your hands as fast as possible
Hi, great and extremely helpful video! Thanks. By the way, can you please make a video on the synthesis of benzyl methyl ketone via chloroacetone and benzene? I'm doing research on anticoagulants using bacteriophages and I need a way to synthesize benzyl methyl ketone (1-phenyl-2-propanone) and use it to make control products. My RA is having a hard time finding the materials for reference, so I think a video would help a lot. Thanks!
Frank Roberts Sir?
Would it help to flush the distillation setup with an inert gas to prevent the forming of the NO2?
why not just filter off the k2so4 --> pure hno3 filtrate?
If performing fractional distillation, is 93% sulfuric acid sufficient to produce the fuming nitric acid?
Can you use the left over potassium in the flask to make more nitric acid or is it to weak?
Since the acid is used in molar, excess, the solid cake left in the boiling flask would be potassium bisulfate, not potassium nitrate, so no..
Can you give a list of chemical suppliers please that sell to individuals?
Thank you
Now just drop some hexamine in there
What concentration level of sulfuric acid would be enough for this experiment
It seems to me that this is a highly excess amount of Potassium nitrate? are the salts Unused Potassium nitrate?? or is it some product of the reaction vessel?
Listen what he says...
Use the HDPE gloves. The crinkly kind that the free sample folks at Sam's Club wear. Those can be stuck in pure HNO3 with no reaction.
+Gugglepluss Suques As far as I can tell from chemical resistance charts, HDPE is not resistant to nitric acid at concentrations greater than 90%. HDPE probably wouldn't be the best solution, or at least something I wouldn't want to try until I tested the glove by some means. YMMV.
maybe I'm asking a stupid question but isn't way much easier to just boil common 60-69% nitric acid and condense the fumes if you just want to obtain higher concentrated nitric acid?
EMandMORE That doesn't work because Nitric Acid forms an azeotrope with water at about 68% concentration, and boils this azeotrope boils at a specific temperature. As such, you'll boil away both water and nitric acid and your concentration wouldn't change.
hey I was wondering if you could do an extraction of caffeine from different energy drinks and see how close you can get to the amount produced compared to the amount that they say is in the drinks.
what about PVC gloves? will nitric acid it through those?
Does glove protect us from normal 68% nitric acid?
Great video (like all of them:) ), but I have a question - will it change anything if I will use this method but without connector between condenser and collecting flask?
+JurineX94 I am not sure what you mean. Like the collecting flask is connected directly to the condenser?
+Nile Red no, with acid dripping straight from condenser to the flask in the open environment :)
JurineX94 that shouldnt be a huge problem. Except you will do 2 things. A) your HNO3 might absorb water and become less concentrated and B) you will make A LOT of fumes, which can be dangerous.
+Nile Red Thanks :)
do a video on making phenol from salicylic acid then to benzene
I am taking some time off of chemistry work for now. I will continue to upload videos because I have a small stockpile though. When I get back to work, likely in a week or so, I will work on a phenol synthesis!
Wow, No Gloves !! Ballz-z ! 4:06
How potassium bisulfate can be disposed ?
If you put a vigreux column on it would that help the purity in anyway?
Acid for blood.
Why you do not use a fractional distillation process
No need to. The product distills over at 83c. The next fraction would be the excess H2SO4, which comes across at about 350c.
How did you get potassium nitrate if you live in Canada
+pyrobros ive actually orderes it twice. Once from the US and another time from the UK. The first time it got stopped ar the border and i had to tell the government why i needed it. The second time there was no issue
+NileRed you can get falling leaf stump remover as well its 100%potassium nitrate and since I live in Toronto it cost 13.99 from home hardware just order it from the store or to your door step and you'll have one pound of pure potassium nitrate but the down side is some of the potassium nitrate comes is beads but you can just strain it out any ways it's a good source of potassium nitrate so I would maybe recommend it and plus you won't have any problems with authorities.
I was under the impression that the nitrate stump remover was harder to get in Canada. Are you saying you can get it as long as you order it directly from the store?
Anyways, there is actually a hydroponics store near my house where you can get potassium nitrate fertilizer (along with 25% H2O2 amongst other things) as long as you explain to them why you need it (I always just said I'm a chemistry student) they'll usually be fine with selling you it. So if you have anything like that near you it's worth a shot.
+Don't Even Bother ya you can easily just order it from home hardware
+john black I already know tons of places to get it so ya
I've never made fuming nitric acid. But, tonight I just made a fuming girlfriend by staying on UA-cam all evening.
I know which one's safer to handle
@@skpilot7 Fuming nitric acid can set your gloves on fire. A fuming girlfriend can set your car on fire
@@sasodoma or your uhhhhh you know what
😂
Wears gloves while demonstrating that gloves catch fire
Does this actuall also work with HCL instead of h2So4 ?
No, HCL contains 65-70% water.
Did you actually get fuming nitric acid from your reaction?? It appears you used a bought product for the [penny] experiments at the end instead of using the stuff you produced
can we store that fuming nitric acid??
I was wondering if calcium nitrate would work just as well, as it is more readily available than the other nitrated salts in my area, not to mention much cheaper
now all i need to make nitric oxide
I'm here from the future!
I don't know man, do physics
sorry if this is a bit old, what about PVC Chemical-Resistant Gloves?
Interesting. I personally prefer electrolysis in a pressure chamber to form my Nitric acid; Far safer and easy to produce sustaining quantaties over time.
So you react nitrogen dioxide with water to from nitric acid?
Thanks so much
could you make sulfuric acid by adding, directly, sulfur to concentrated nitric acid?
+Carlos Henrique Farias de Barros Junior yes
hey i dont know if you have done it already (if you did can you put a link below?) but could you make a close to 100% nitric acid? I heard it could be done via sulfuric acid (since it has a hygroscopic effect more dominant than nitric acid?) thanks in advance :)
Trying to make some pre workout?
If I react sulfuric acid and sodium nitrate yielding a distillate of fuming nitric acid, what am I left with in my boiling flask? Is it sodium metabisulfite or sodium bisulfate? What can I use this leftover molten salt for and how can I remove it from glassware without recrystallization occurring. It's a huge pain in the .
.Thank you in advance .
It is sodium bisulfate (sodium hydrogen sulfate). It's water soluble, so just rinse the flask with cold water.
Fumhood ahh yes a fumhood.
I remember way back in elementary a chemist came over and did this and I inhaled it all and someone dared me to touch it so I did and after a day it looked swollin and then torn with blood.
David Darras I call BS until you tell me what colour your skin turned. (and even then I'd be surprised you didn't suffer pulmonary edema.)
I hope I don't have it
David Darras
Pulmonary adema is a life-threatening condition. As in, if you had it "way back in elementary school", you would have died. Like, bleeding through your lungs, coughing up whole chunks life-threatening.
can this be scaled up linearly or does the ratio of acid to salt change for larger batches ?
Scaling up any chemistry is risky unless you really know what you are doing (i.e. are a chemical engineer), the ratios would remain the same but heating and cooling take much longer not to mention that a small flask loses much more heat in proportion to a large one, so thermal runaways are always a danger with scaling up not to mention many other problems that I wouldn't know. It's *much* safer to stick to millimolar scale. chemists leave scaling up to chemical engineers and specialised process chemists.
Good show old boy bravo.
Does anyone know where to get Sikagaurd nitric acid?
I can't find it anywhere online or at the store.
I made my first batch in the 9th grade.
That's cute,I made it in my mothers womb
I have about a kilo of calcium nitrate,
would i be able to use this ?
+razie85 You can use almost every nitrate salt, but calcium nitrate has two disadvantages compared to KNO3: it can form a tetrahydrate, which contains only 69% Ca(NO3)2, but there is also an anhydrous form, too
and Calciumsulfate is poorly soluble. It may form incrustations in the flask, which impairs the reaction of "inner layers" with the sulphuric acid.
what temperature do you have your hot plate on?
Nile: Used to make HIGH EXPLOSIVES
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why didn´t you put the nitric acid on pvc gloves:(
+Günter TV I didn't have any!
+Nile Red ok
It's not pure it's contaminated with nitrogen dioxide
A pinch of urea or bubbling dry air through it will clear it right up.