For small demo-experiments, which demonstrate its properties you could do the following:
- Take 1 ml of iso-propyl alcohol (very common, easy to obtain) and drip 0.5 ml of acid in this --> this will lead to an extremely violent
reaction, with production of a cloud of NO2, but also lots of white fumes. You may even get ignition, so be prepared!
- Turpentine (e.g. from pine trees, or some synthetic substitute, which differs from country to country) and white fuming nitric acid form a
hypergolic mix! Drip turpentine into 0.5 ml of acid. Again, be careful, it may splatter.
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