Turning Fertilizer into Nitric Acid

"Fertilizer" and "nitric acid", the usual keywords to summon letter boys xD

When I was teen and lived in Russia, ammonium nitrate was sold pretty free and pretty pure as a fertilizer without this lime junk. Most funny part was to prepare saturated solution of it, soak some newspapers, dry it, fold tightly at set on fire. Or set on fire and put into plastic bottle. Sometimes I'm wondering how crazy I was...

ah yes, now i can do more backyard chemistry that will put me on a watch list

the more chemistry youtubers I watch the more It makes me scared to witness how much it resembles eyeballing a cake recipe from memory

Your fertilizer reminds me of the fertiliser suplur extraction i did years ago. They often mix these compounds with a clay so they can be formed into neads more easily, which makes it great for ppl like us, because the clay isn't water soluable. Also, it would be nice to show the thermal property of disolution/crystalisation because not many chemistry minded ppl know that this process works in reverse. I was purifying some salts once, and once it reached a certain temp and began to crystalize oit from a boiling saturated solution, the temperature rose as it crystalized.

Very nice video as always. I don't know if you take suggestions but I once found that you can make gelatin from meat/fish products through a relatively simple process, and your last video reminded of it. It'd be interesting to see a video on it!

thats just how beautifull/crazy chemistry can be. litterally better than some nile red videos actually. Ur gonna go far.

I'm impressed folks can get their hands on bags of ammonium nitrate like that! That's a rare sight in most places lol

such a cool video. gotta appreciate amateur chemistry youtube! this is so cool and unique.

Somebody please donate this guy some glassware. He really deserves it!!

Love your contents keep up the good work mate!

Hi Amateur Chemistry, nice video. The poor reactivity of your Ni(N2H4)3(NO3)2 must be due to the fact you mixed Ni(NO3)2 with N2H4 from N2H4.H2SO4 and NaOH. I suspect you got some Ni(OH)2 too from slight exces of NaOH and that is what reduces the sensitivity and reactivity of your pink clayish complex. I have made it about 30 years ago from HNO3 (69%), Ni coins (from 50 belgian francs that where made out of 99+% nickel prior to the euro coins came to life in year 2000 (1 and 2 contains some aside with copper).The green solution in water of Ni(NO3)2 was then allowed to react with 80% N2H4 (N2H5OH or N2H4.H2o (hydrazine monohydrate)). During the complexation reaction it gets quite hot due to the loss of freedom levels of ions of Ni(2+), 2 NO3(-) and 3 N2H4 (it goes from 3 axis for each 6 ions to one unsoluble precipitate thus passing from 18 freedom levels to one). The fact both Ni(NO3)2 and N2H4 where solutions (the last droped drop by drop with an eye droper into the agitated green first solution) was the best way to keep the reaction under control with a "moderate" heating. NiNHc (nickel nitrate hydrazine complex) is a good primary except for its reliable detonativity and burning rate. Once in high order it can go up to VOD of 7,0 km/s with a good lead block test (400-420); this is to compare its performances with other primaries that are more into the range of 3-4 km/s (mach 10) and with LBT in the range 150-300 ccm for 10g. During the precipitation process one often notice a blue precipitate but it soon turns pink when adding more Ni(NO3); this must come from partial complexations in the early stages. I had a composition that was synergetic by mixing two unsoluble primaries SANC (silver acetylide nitrato complex (or SDS silver double salt). I used 1 to 2 parts of NiNHc with 1 part SANC). The NiNHC detonates more readily and "burns" more even; it is more sensitive to flame and shocks but the SADS by its effect will be tempered a little while its VOD and LBT will go up. VOD of the mix is in the range of 5-6km/s. Keep on the good job. PHZ (PHILOU Zrealone from the Science Madness forum)

I abselutely love your videos man, ive allways wanted to find a channel that breaks stuff Down to make conponents. Thx so much for makeing my Dream come true while also teaching me a lot of amazing stuff evry week it also makes it Even better that you actually use what you produce for future projects❤️❤️

It is also possible to make it from some NO3 salt and KHSO4 salt ( which is pool pH lowering compund)- by dry distilation.

Love your videos! :D

This was fun to watch

your processes remind me of when I try and do similar things but you actually get yours to work.

Lets go 😁😁😁 thats what I was waiting for 😎😎

Nice video it is very helpful because i wanted hno3 but it was expensive but the fertlizer was cheaper

Hell Yeah Something Elseic Acid my favourite