H2SO4

ya, but i dont have copper nitrate

i wouldnt use a kitchen stve, ive got MAPP gas burners in my lab

ya, i screwed up on my quoting.

nitrocellulose is just cotton soaked in an concentrated soulution of nitric and sulfuric acid. Its done in an ice bath i think. seems safer to make then nitroglycerin. Although nitroglycerin doesnt seem to insane to make, just as long as your careful and work with an ice bath and ,ale small amounts.

i just wanted some to do some expirements. Would adding it to (lets say, for example Mg) give you magnesium nitrate.

I realized because im gonna be making HCl and nitric acid, why not make aqua regia too. Ive been researching this stuff and found that aqua regia is an extremely corrosive, fuming liquid. So ive found that you simply mix concentrated nitric and hydrochloric acid together in a 1 to 3 ratio. I can imagine if this came in contact with skin or eyes (beyond bad!)!!!!!!!!! Wat you get is a fuming brown liquid that can disolve gold. Can this be stored in a normal glass vessel with a stopper. And if/when i mix the acids, will there be an evolution of heat or a violent reaction that i should be aware of. I realy want to try this but i need to no more about aqua regia. Trust me, around dangerous/corrosive/poisonous chemicals i am very safe and catious.

haha very funny, remind me again weres the second one, was it the KNO3 instead of NaNO3 or the potassium carbonate decomposes to CaO (typing error). Im just kinda tired lately, so my spelling and typing have been screwin up lately.

omg YT2095 your ingenous. I just saw this in a book thats 101 years old (a laboratory chemistry) and saw sodium nitrate as the reactant. Potassium forms compounds with the almost identicle propertys(for example KCl is an salt substitue), i dont see why it wont work. Ill try it and post the results when i get my appuratuses all set up.

so is black powder a secondary explosive and flash is a primary.

Does anyone know a way i could synthesize some sodium nitrate. I plan to make some nitric acid by reacting sulfuric acid with sodium nitrate and i dont have sodium nitrate. I have tons of reagents. Maybe some reaction with KNO3 or other nitrates? I dont know, but thanks for your responses.

i was expirementing to see wat metals i should use for a big battery i am making, so i took copper and iron, zinc, magnesium (i knew the reaction would be to fast with Mg for a battery but i wanted to see the voltage anyway) tin, lead and aluminum. I found that the best combination would be Cu and Zn. when expirementing with the Cu and Al i found that when i put the aluminum rod in the solution i got about 400 mv from the thing. I noticed the voltage was steadily climbing, until it peaked out at about 700 mv. the sulphuric acid mustve not been able to expose any more aluminum at that extent (to get it past 700 mv.) Still it was pretty cool how i could see on my voltmeter the oxide layer being broken. If the above paragraph was realy hard to follow its because i need to go to bed realy bad. If aluminum werent so reactive you would find it in nature pure (it took so long for humans to finaly isolate it because it binds to other elements so good.)

sorry, i mustve not been watching wat i was typing, i meant calcium carbonate Simple mistake ya, ancient methods never work. I didnt know potassium carboante could decompose to calcium oxide. ill have to try it

ya, simple mistake, hahahaha.

ya, ancient methods never work. I didnt know potassium carboante could decompose to calcium oxide. ill have to try it.

seems like a very inneficient way to get nickel, just buy some unless your just expirementing aand dont actualy need it.

ultraviolent light also creates ozone.

i thought that only tungsten fluoride oxidized oxygen.

just hook an airstone up to a flask with some sodium bicarbonate vinegar or dilute H2SO4 for a longer lasting reaction. This should give you sufficient CO2

so is HI the strongest of the "halogen " acids? and is LiOH the strongest of the Bases.

For drying ammonia gas, ive always seen calcium oxide being used.

the stuff sounds cool, maybe ill do some expirementing.

Ive heard from people that hydrofluoric acid is actualy pretty weak, but i know it can dissolve certain types of glass. I thought that the the stronger the halogen, the stronger its acid. Is this true, is this the same for the alkali metals and there bases. Is cesium hydroxide the strongest base known to man?

maybe try sodium hydroxide. Sodium hydroxide supposedly eats organic material pretty well.

because fireants are bigger than black ants. It takes more to kill them.

or you could take the hydrogencarbonate and maybe decompose it to carbonate by heating it. It works with sodium bicarbonate, why not potassium bicarbonate.