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Nitric Acid and Silver Nitrate
I'm getting really tired of the daily new topics on making nitric acid for the purpose of preparing silver nitrate or refining silver metal. I'm
going to start referring posters to this list, and may even close the worst of them—particularly those opened despite the poster's knowledge
of existing threads.
If you've been redirected to this thread and/or your topic has been closed, take it as a hint to read through <em>everything</em> listed
below before making any new posts on the subject. You will likely find that any questions you can think of have already been answered at least a
dozen times before.
<strong><a href="viewthread.php?tid=27773">Making nitric acid</a></strong>
<strong><a href="viewthread.php?tid=27492">Is there a way to dissolve silver without HNO3?</a></strong>
<strong><a href="viewthread.php?tid=25328">Silver Nitrate Synthesis</a></strong>
<strong><a href="viewthread.php?tid=25209">golfpro's Nitric Acid for Beginners</a></strong>
<strong><a href="viewthread.php?tid=27793">Selling Silver Nitrate?</a></strong>
<strong><a href="viewthread.php?tid=26118">Silver Nitrate crystallization from water</a></strong>
<strong><a href="viewthread.php?tid=23006">Purifying Silver Nitrate</a></strong>
<strong><a href="viewthread.php?tid=22590">Nitric acid/silver nitrate stains</a></strong>
<strong><a href="viewthread.php?tid=21861">Confirming Silver or Silver nitrate method for production</a></strong>
<strong><a href="viewthread.php?tid=21856">Contaminated silver nitrate solution</a></strong>
<strong><a href="viewthread.php?tid=21762">Unexpected aggressive reaction build up with silver nitrate</a></strong>
<strong><a href="viewthread.php?tid=21739">Silver Nitrate Calculation/maths check</a></strong>
<strong><a href="viewthread.php?tid=19668">Making silver nitrate - impure silver</a></strong>
<strong><a href="viewthread.php?tid=19193">silver nitrate</a></strong>
<strong><a href="viewthread.php?tid=18153">Silver nitrate stain removal</a></strong>
[more to come...]
Note: Don't expect this list to be ordered in any particular way. I'm not going to do every bloody thing for you. Put in the effort yourself.
Final Note: The majority of questions seem to be coming from those who have little to no interest in chemistry, but who greedily seek wealth through
spoon-feeding. As a result, <em>don't expect any mercy.</em> There are plenty of resources out there for those who care not about the
science, but only wish to refine silver for profit. Seek those out, and please spare us the nuisance.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6hPgGV_qAg
Great video by nurdrage.
P.S. I agree that this does need a sticky.
[Edited on 11-12-2013 by bismuthate]
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There are two much better videos (in my opinion) by our own <strong><a href="http://youtu.be/DEEjNQN2dIQ"
target="_blank">UnintentionalChaos</a></strong> <img src="../scipics/_yt.png" > and <strong><a
href="http://youtu.be/imR0cDqSwec" target="_blank">Gooferking Science</a></strong> <img src="../scipics/_yt.png" > on YouTube. I
recall several others, but can't seem to find them at the moment. Perhaps I'll put a little more effort into this topic and try to make it more of an
authoritative—or at the very least, useful—index of the nitric acid & silver nitrate topics and amateur resources both on the
fora and elsewhere. I will put a few of the best topics into my compendium, but a more in-depth summary could be useful.
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Hey as long as we're plugging member videos, here's mine! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYDFplw8iKg
It's almost identical to Gooferking's, except I use ammonium nitrate instead of potassium nitrate.
Even if the process is the same, I always enjoy watching other people's videos on a particular subject. Everyone puts their own unique spin on things,
and each video has its own nuggets of wisdom.
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I have a small suggestion: why not split that list into 2 parts: make HNO3 and Make AgNO3.
My favorite nitric acid prep. is UC's
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I agree with pyro, they should be two separate threads.
UC's nitric acid prep is my favorite as well
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not 2 separate threads, just organised into 2 sections...
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That would work as well. Any way to separate the two topics would be good.
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I'll second the idea to separate two stickies... One HNO3, and the other Ag(NO3)2 (i think 
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
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Silver nitrate is AgNO3. Silver(II) nitrate is extremely unstable.
Please remember: "Filtrate" is not a verb.
Write up your lab reports the way your instructor wants them, not the way your ex-instructor wants them.
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Great, it seems that everyone who cares to has given their opinion on the matter. But unless any of you create your own topics and put in the work,
I'm doing this the way I like and in my own time. I'll gladly take all suggestions into consideration, but don't expect this topic to be directed by
popular opinion. I appreciate the interest, and will try to put more into this as soon as possible.
For the record, it's AgNO<sub>3</sub>.
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Nitric acid:
SM
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=27773
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=25209
YT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEEjNQN2dIQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yE7v4wkuZU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6GpMQ98u8I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imR0cDqSwec
Silver Nitrate:
SM
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=27492
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=25328
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=27793
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=26118
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=22590
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=21856
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=21762
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=21739
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=19668
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=19193
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=18153
YT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6hPgGV_qAg
etc... there could also be a part on getting common nitrate salts, making other nitrates,...
I'm willing to do the work, but not tonight, it's 1AM
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Using 4Ag+6HNO3 --> 4AgNO3 + 3H2O + NO2 + NO
54g of Silver needs 48g of HNO3, or 38ml approx. I dilute it to 55% and use hot for the reaction. Would 80ml of 55% Nitric Acid really fully react
with the silver or would the products dilute the remaining acid towards the end of the reaction to require and excess of nitric to fully react the
silver?
Thanks
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If the silver is in powder form, it will fully react in a relative short time.
If the silver is in the granulated/larger pieces of metal form, the reaction will take place much more slower and it will take a longer time to
consume all the silver...
However, if you want that reaction to be complete (no silver metal remaining), you should use just a little bit more nitric acid...
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Now I have a question:
How to make white fuming nitric acid (with N2O5 dissolved).
I was make this by the next method (it's very hard, and does not involves big quantities):
I make NO2 in a big glass container where an electrical arc (50Kv) ionize a mixture of air and oxigen gas (additional oxigen):
O2+N2 =(high temp)=> 2 NO + O2 => 2NO2
Next I cool the gas in an flask surrounded by -18*C icy salt water (CaCl2+H2O) to form N2O4.
2NO2<=(low temp)=>>>N2O4
The next step is a very nice reaction:
I make ozone (O3) from ordinary oxigen(O2) in an ozonificator using the same 50Kv resonant tesla transformer:
3O2=(cold plasma)=> 2O2 + 2[O] => 2O3
I notice that not all the O2 is transformed in O3, ozone have actualy a concentration about 10% in O3+O2 mixture.
Then I bubble this mixture in N2O4 to form N2O5, a white solid (similar to a salt) at room temperature.
N2O4+O3==>2NO2+O2+[O] =slow=> NO2+O2+[NO3] =fast=> O2 + O2N-O-NO2 , where the "O2N-O-NO2" is actualy that "N2O5", the nitric anhidride.
Whell...I've got just 8-9 grams of N2O5 in 2 days (36 hours work, and a lot of electricity consumed, seriously).
There is another way to made this chemical (who NOT involve dehidration of nitric acid with P5O10) ?
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Does this method work? Ozone reacting with N2O4?
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http://nitrogen.atomistry.com/nitrogen_pentoxide.html
Heres a nice link with a few different methods. (no exact procedures though)
Zyklonb, yup that reaction will work.
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Great, thanks bismuthate!
Soon to make an ozone generator....
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Have anyone tried purifying 70% HNO3 with P2O5? phosphuric acid's boils around 150 where as HNO3 around 80 so it looks possible.
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Wouldn't it be easier to just distill it with sulfuric acid?
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i have P2O5
i figured out for 10mL 62% HNO3 i needed 10.8g P2O5
so i got my P2O5 and measured out 10 mL HNO3
added about 0.2g P2O5
whooosh
that stuff is potent, i already cooled the HNO3 down and it was starting to raise in temperature
think i managed to add like... 3-4 grammes IN TOTAL over many times, like 8 times or some just so the glass wouldnt crack, extremely intensive heat
that stuff gives off when reacting with water
not sure but i think once it reached 60*C
also HNO3 99.9% i recall as being 119*C or some as its BP?
i really cannot imagine how one would go with a large scale addition of P2O5 to HNO3
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Verrrry slowly is my guess. Not very practical, but possible.
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Is it possible to make anhydrous nitric acid by the nitrate salt sulfuric acid distillation method, but with a strong excess of sulfuric acid?
[edit] Anyone??
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There is an azeotrope of nitric acid with water at 70%, so you will need a vacuum distillation to get nearly anhydrous acid. You will also probably
have to distill it more than once.
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No, sulfuric acid has a much stronger affinity for water, so with excess sulfuric acid, one can get near anhydrous, I just wanted to know if anhydrous
was possible, with a stronger excess of sulfuric.
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