menchaca
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help to discovering an interesting use for sulfamic acid
I´ve got acces to sulfamic acid and I would like to know some interesting use for it... I´ve thought in H2SO4 manufacture, amines or something so
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Well, sulfamic acid is needed in the preparation of nitramides...
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Yes there was a method for making ammonium dinitramide from it... It can also be used for RDX synthesis if energetic materials interests you.
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Sulfamic acid
Well you can make heavy metal salts for electroplating said metals(nickel sulfamamte, lead sulfamate) as ALL sulfamates are water soluble. I have
read a pyrotech mixture with potassium chlorate produces a SO3 smokescreen but the hazards in this proceedure are obvious. For one SO3 is distructive
to lungs and you do NOT want to have ANY chlorate in an acidic condtion. I have not tried this but if you decide to use the mixture PROMPTLY as you
do NOT want to store it.
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menchaca
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ummm..... i think i´m interested in the way to rdx..... where can i find some information about it?i´m interested in ammonium nitramide too
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Here is a rather easy preparation by Alchemist:
http://www.roguesci.org/theforum/showthread.php?s=&threa...
Although you will need dry ice and +90% HNO3
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the smoke comp becomes acidic <b>after</b> burning. the salt isn't acidic by itself nor unstable.
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Sulfamic acid and NaNo2 produce nitrogen gas.
http://mattson.creighton.edu/AllGases.html
I love this site, it describes the microscale production of 17 gasses.
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OTC sources
where are you getting this acid from? are you buying it chemically or in an over-the-counter product? I am aware that the product "Lime
Away" contains sulfamic acid...though im not aware of its purity, its worth looking into.
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Production of Gases from Sufamic Acid
I would think it would be useless and a waste
of expensive chemicals to produce gases on
a microscale and especially gases that are
going to be dissolved in a liquid.
Even still if there is another way to create
gases on a macroscale then why waste chemicals
for the production of these gases.
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I have a sneaky suspicion that it could be reacted with urea (molten) to produce guanidine sulphate....
I still haven't got round to testing the product that I ended up with though.
I'm sure there's another use that hasn't been mentioned yet... I'll let you know if I remember it.
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another interesting use
Lead sulfamate is extremely soluble. Sulfamic acid is therefore useful for dissolving lead (and then doing whatever sorts of things you'd like to
use a very soluble lead salt for).
I don't have any pure lead around at the moment, just airgun pellets. I found that to get them to dissolve in sulfamic acid I first needed to add
a bit of hydrogen peroxide and heat the solution, and that very concentrated solutions will not attack the lead.
If nothing else, the resulting lead sulfamate solution can easily be used as a simple qualitative test for the presence of carbonate/sulfate/halide
(any anion that pairs with lead to make low-solubility compounds).
Given the very high solubility of the sulfamate, I suspect one could even precipitate lead nitrate by the addition of a second nitrate salt, boiling,
and cooling. But I'll have to make some more before I can test that idea. I would presume one could also use the sulfamate in the place of
acetate or nitrate in preparing lead azide.
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quote:
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Originally posted by Acid Test
I would think it would be useless and a waste
of expensive chemicals to produce gases on
a microscale and especially ......
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Y'Know, Acid Test, not all of US feel the one and only, good and proper use of chemicals is to make mind-bendering controlled substances eh?
Maybe "waste" is the wrong word?.
Thanks Tacho, for the intel, for the lowbrows!(like me)
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I found a drain cleaner containing sulfamic acid, but it also contains deodorisers and other arb stuff. It comes as a mixture of flakes and
pellets/powder. Would there be an easy way to extract the pure sulfamic acid from the rest?
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sulfamic acid is tile cleaner
source the big orange store
one pound around $5USD.
much cheaper from chem supply but not as near.
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In the 'Chemistry and Technology of Explosives vol 3 by Urbanski' there is a procedure using sulphamic acid to produce RDX.
To sum it up it says that potassium salt of sulfamic acid is reacted with formaldehyde and the product is reacted with nitric acid.
The nitrating mixture is said to be 80% HNO3 and 20% SO3 which means there will be a presence of H2SO4 which apparently won't attack the RDX as
long as the mixture remains anhydrous. This is known as the 'w method'.
This is a method I've never seen discussed before and was wondering if anyone has had any experience with this synth.
Am I correct in assuming that the 'potassium salt of sulfamic acid is potassium sulfamate and can be produced by reacting KOH and sulfamic acid?
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lead sulfamate -» lead dioxide electrodes
Could lead sulfamate be a root to lead dioxide electrodes? I want to try that and I happen to have a large quantity of sulfamic acid on hand ( someone
salvaged it from some place that was closing), as well as lead. If I make some lead sulfamate, and then electrolyse a solution of it, could I get a
lead dioxide coating on the anode? I would assume so, but electrochemistry frequently springs a few surprises on me!
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