Booze - 26-3-2017 at 13:01
Hello. Yesterday I dissolved a gram of pure bismuth in some nitric acid I made a little while ago. I don't know what strength the acid is, my guess is
around 40 to 50 percent. Anyway, once the bismuth was gone, there was a white powder at the bottom of my beaker that I dried and collected. I read
online that bismuth nitrate will decompose into bismuth subnitrate in the presence of water. It also said that when you heat it No2 gas will form, so
i heated it up. No gasses that I could see formed, but the powder turned a weird orange-yellow color. So is this bismuth nitrate, and if it is what
are some cool things I can do with it?
AJKOER - 26-3-2017 at 19:51
This source may be of interest:
http://bismuth.atomistry.com/normal_bismuth_nitrate.html
[Edited on 27-3-2017 by AJKOER]