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1. If you change the recipe of black powder it is not considered black powder any more. 2. Amonium Nitrate is hygroscopic and thus do not tolerate moist air leading to problems with ignition and corrosion due to absorbed moisture. 3. Because it is not stable, it changes crystal structure depending on temperature and this means you have to store and use the AN based powder at once ore store the material at a controlled and constant temperature to avoid dangerous and uncontrolled cracking of the grains. AN based "black powder" have been tried and used, the temperature dependent phase shift in crystal lace made the big grains of powder reduce to fine powder over time making the ballistic properties change quite a bit. A big block of BP burns quite slow but if you cut the block in smaller peaces increase the surface area it will burn explosively. So what happened was that old AN based "black powder" made the weapons explode in a dangerous way. AN is sometimes used in experimental rocket fuels due to low cost and no solids upon combustion, but to avoid catastrophic engine failure the AN needs to be phase stabilized with additives to reduce or hopefully eliminate the cracking of the fuel grain.

If you dissolve 2% Stearic acid in Etanol by heating and then add a concentrated solution of Stociometric amounts of NaOH you will form Soap making a firm mass upon cooling. If you substitute some or all of the NaOH with KOH you might get a more napalm like consistency. (None of this is eatable if you don't like eating soap and corrosive chemicals) <3 >>>_@/"

Add NaOH to a CuSo4 solution and you will get a precipitate of Cu(OH)2 witch decomposes to CuO upon heating To get CuCl2 you could (Slowly, risk of toxic Cl2 gas liberation) add H2O2 to a Copper in HCL(aq) or Add CaCl2 to a sociometric amount of CuSo4 to get CuCl2 and insoluble gypsum ppt and CuCl2(aq)

How about this Evaporate water and HCL witout using exessiv heat, then you wheight the residue. Next add pure water witch will disolv the CuCl2 but noth the CuCl then filter of the solutiuon and evaporate the water from the sampels and wheight the residues. Or titrate the HCl as previosluy mentioned and separate the solubel salts from the unsoluble CuCl residue. H2O2 addition generate toxic Cl2 gas in the pressens of HCl but if the adition is slow and there is copper pressent it will make CuCl2