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...
Thats more like nitrocelulos, or gun cotton. more stable but not as energetic. I made nitroglycerine when I was 13. Only b/c we had the nitric acid and glycerine at our shop (industrial motor shop). Any my father and his brother said do it, b/c they did when they were at the same age....(real smart reason....). So we did. (it's an exothermic reaction so we had to keep it iced and we misted the acid on the glycerine, to be safe, and then skim it off. after we made it, we put them in wine bottles. Little later we decided to detonate a few.........it went Boom......and I went......WOW what now......(there was no point in making it, I mean what the hell am I going to do w/ HE) Oh I did throw bottles in large lakes and stuff, while fishing. BOom fish float up....I hate eating fish and don't like fishing for fish...blowing them up while drinking....not so bad...hehe take it light --KB
P.S. that crap about dropping a bottle of nitroglycerine or knocking it of a table and have it blow up, is ALL B.S. You have to drop a pound or 2 of the explosive from 30 or more feet, for it to shock detonate. Or, drop a 10lbs stone from 10 meters, onto a 1 square foot concentration of nitroglycerine, to detonate. HOWEVER there is an explosive call........nitrofloride or is it floricglycerine (or floroglycerine). I think is a floric acid blended w/ glycerine....(it's been a few decades so cut me some slack). That stuff is so SHOCK sensitive that you can detonate it just by brushing it with a feather.....obviously there is NO use for that crap...take it light --KB
Puis-je faire le nitrate d'ammonium à partir de cold pack? Je pose cette question car il y a du calcium avec le nitrate d'ammonium du cold pack! Je pense que je peux éliminer le calcium en faisant des filtration?
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!
To all others who wants to filter ammonium nitrate from fertilizer. Instead of wasting time crushing the pellets, then just mix it with water in a large beaker and stir it around for like 2 min and it should be dissolved, if enough water is added. And instead of filtering the contamination, then just let the dissolved solution stay for a day and the contaminants will fall down to the bottom:)
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)
Calcium Nitrate is also a very common fertilizer. Adding Sulphuric Acid to a Solution of Calcium Nitrate yeilds Nitric Acid and Calcium Sulphate, which conveniently precipitates out.
Calcium oxalate is even less soluble than sulfate, you can just mix solutions of oxalic acid and calcium nitrate to get dilute nitric acid. After filtering and distilling you get azeotropic nitric acid with about 30% yield.
@@zenongranatnik8370 made my nitric acid using this method. Both solutions must be hot enough for more concentrated form and bigger particle size of precipitate (more easy to filter). :)
It is possible, but I tried it 3 times with my mate, and all 3 round bottoms broke. They broke from extreme heat that is needed to make reaction going, and the salts inside probably expanded a little. I'll try to make stainless steel reaction vessel so no more flasks will break. Reaction generates A LOT of NO2 gas, so you have to do it outside or in very good fume hood. Acid dripping from the condenser was not yellow like usual, but fuckin orange! It burned gloves 2x faster than this yellow stuff that you usually get from h2so4 + kno3/nano3 reaction
A better method for free-basing the hydrazine which will also get rid of the sodium and the sulfate ions would be to use ion exchange chromatography. If you use as a medium for that sulfonated polystyrene beads (sold commercially for use in water softening systems) that you convert to the acid form using diluted HCl, you can pass the hydrazine sulfate over the beads and the hydrazine will bind to them, leaving the sulfate ion in solution (and it can be washed off). Then you can elute the hydrazine off the beads with diluted NaOH which will cause the sodium to displace the hydrazine from the beads, leaving you with a pretty pure solution of hydrazine, mostly free of other ions.
BTW you don't have to do it in a chromatography column, you can just use a batch method in a beaker. Make sure you don't exceed the binding capacity of the resin, which for commercial resins is between 1 and 2 mEq/ml. I usually play it on the safer side and underestimate the binding capacity to 1mEq/ml, this way there is excess resin to bind everything out of solution.
When I saw the powdered crystals I thought that's not from melting that's from the crystalline structure changing phases just like tin pest. During heating those crystals had the opportunity to go through several crystal phases. at most room temps(below 32.3C) its a β-rhombic crystal as it heated it went through α-rhombic, tetragonal, and cubic phases and then transitioned back on cooling. This shattered any bulk crystalline structures.
You want that scale to last? Use some clear tape and tape over the controls and LCD display, plus tape all around the sides of the unit too. I have this exact one. It is not waterproof or dust proof. Just by taping it up, it makes it so much more durable.
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❤️❤️
There is a very much more simple and conveniente way to separate the dirt from the ammonium nitrate. Dissolve as much as possible from the prills in hot water. Then keep the solution hot in a isolation box and let the gravity do the clarification. After some time the dirt is on the bottom and the solution is clear. Suck of the solution and let it cool. The ammonium nitrate cristalls appear and you can collect them.
Some of these experiments lay people call "easy" because they have only seen it done in an ersatz lab set up for the sole purpose of one product, and perhaps run by someone who barely understands the chemistry, but is a competent technician in producing that one product on that one apparatus using the same inputs. It makes it appear as if anyone could just whip it up in the kitchen sink specifically because all the difficulties were worked out long before the viewer saw the process.
Very nice idea and a great video! How about turning the yellow liquid thing for the toilett 😅 into sodiumnitrate or also in nitric acid or something like that?
Super interesting channel and great content! I study chemistry and would love to do experiments like the stuff you do. How do you find the processes and reactions?
Thanks! I usually learn chemistry and come up with procedures and video ideas by just reading something online or watching a video about an intereting topic. When I want to record a video I peace together a lot of these small and common reactions and processes to create an interesting project
It's best to just click every chemistry related videos that pop up on your RU-vid This is how I learned chemistry and electronics. The videos were in English, so i learned it, too.
I found the quickest is to dissolve fertilizer with methanol. The prills just fall apart, nitrate dissolved, filter, and just let it evaporate in a casserole dish. Big chunks of crystals.
2:22 Unfortunately, that is all history now. bm-chemistry only has a tiny selection of chemicals left. I counted the number of chemicals in their shop today, and there were exactly only 17 chemicals.
To cool down their beers, some farmers fill up a bucket with a bit of water and dissolve fertilizer in it. When it starts cooling down, they put the beer bottles in the bucket. Working with urea daily has its perks.
Yeah had a so called friend that used the prills from the cold packs (the ones that have a little bag of water inside and when you bust it it gets cold) for some nefarious reasons, found out what he was doing when I went to his house and found him (cooking) with his small child in the house,dirt bag
THANKS for the link to that BM chemical place. Good price on 1,4 Butanediol but the toluene is way overpriced. I drive to Czech Republic and pay like 2 Euros/liter. The ammonium nitrate is called "Ledek" in Czech and it's like 5 Euros for a 5 kilo bag.
Nice, I make 98% all the time. without even watching, you have to do a through re-crystal at least twice to get rid of all the junk that will make it foam when you distill it (especially under vacuum.)
3:55. Hey, thats a fairly normal sized knife. Also, that wasn't a karate chop, it more resembled a Chicago stab, though a chicago stab is performed on the BACK side.
you still need 98% sulphuric acid to make HNO3. but you cannot buy it legally now as a private person., it is easier to get HNO3 than H2SO4 so this method is meaningless. show me an effective method not using H2SO4 to make HNO3
ja dla roślin dzisiaj zrobiłem 2 mikstury takie w identycznych kulkach to było, i przysięgam nie chciało sie rozpuścić, i jeszcze zimno sie robiło w tej butelce więc spoko
You should save ammonium nitrate for future and syntetise HNO3 from potassium nitrate because its no longer possible to buy NH4NO3 in EU without papers due tu anti terrorism regulations so if you dont have a good access to it now better use different nitrate salts because ammonium nitrate is realy lrecious for a garage chemist now ;)
Cześć, uzyskałeś stężenie kwasu 83 procent? Czy mogę użyć 35 procentowego kwasu siarkowego? Jesli tak to stężenie będzie maleć proporcjonalnie do zawartości wody w kwasie siarkowym?
Lmao, imagine living in a country where you cant buy almost pure ammonium nitrate... I live in Latvia, where, for 3 euros, you can buy 2kg of pretty pure (msds says its 98-99% ammonium nitrate) 34.4% ammonium nitrate... I use it for nitration reactions bc i dont like pure HNO3...
@@emmanuelesrael6480 is good and all, but i hate when i end up accidentality synthesizing 2,4,6-trinitrofinger... Not useful for anything. Can't even normally flip a page with those nitrated fingers!
@@Krzysix.io11 Yes, just the N content following the N-P-K for fertilizers. Pure ammonium nitrate of has 35.00%. 25kg sure is a lot, but I did buy (because you can) 25kg of KNO3 and have used a few already...
