How do they manufacture nitrous oxide?

[bikenik]

How is nitrous oxide manufactured?

[Crozius]

Is there anything this site cant do?

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrous_oxide#Manufacture

[Mr.Chockuls]

You should mix something with nitric acid, but that is'nt the final product...

[John Cuthber]

"You should mix something with nitric acid"

Why?

[Mr.Chockuls]

you can get some NOx as sub-product. NH3OH + HNO3 = NH4NO3 + H2O

While it's forming, nitrous oxide will appear.

[John Cuthber]

NH3 is ammonia, NH2OH is hydroxylamine NH4OH doesn't really exist, but it would be ammonium hydroxide; NH3OH is nonsense.

[Mr.Chockuls]

so, it's NH3NO3?

http://www.alibaba.com/catalog/10822098/Ammonia_Nitrate_NH4NO3.html i knew it was NH4NO3, whatever, if you mix ammonium hydroxide with hydrogen nitrate you can get a little of NOx, right?

[PauloChem]

mmonium nitrate is also used in instant cold packs.[1] In this use, ammonium nitrate is mixed with water in an endothermic reaction, which absorbs 25.69 kilojoules of heat per mole of reactant. Products of ammonium nitrate reactions are used in airbags. When sodium azide (NaN3) is used in airbags, it decomposes to Na (s) and N2 (g), the sodium forms a fine dust composed of sodium salts, which is not preferred by the airbag producers.

 

Ammonium nitrate is used in the treatment of some titanium ores.

 

Ammonium nitrate is used in the preparation of nitrous oxide (N2O):

 

NH4NO3(aq) -> N2O(g) + 2H2O(l)

 

Ammonium nitrate is used in survival kits mixed with zinc dust and ammonium chloride because it will ignite on contact with water.

 

Ammonium nitrate can be used to make anhydrous ammonia, a chemical often used in the production of methamphetamine. (thing you shouldn't mess with)

 

 

Ok that should make sense to you. But do a little more research

 

[thedarkshade]

NH3OH is nonsense.

I agree. It doesn't even fit with oxidation numbers [math](NH_3OH)^{-2}[/math].

 

edit: wow, great post paulo!

[PauloChem]

Thanks Darkshade, its is really important for people to use every safety precaution before doing anything chemistry related. You have a million experiments but only one life (at least this one). So don't be stupid guys and do an experiment that could kill you. Do your research.