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Opinion on distillation kit purchase
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OK I'm new to distillation kits will this be OK for distilling nitric acid and sulphuric acid? it will need to stand up to open flame contact.
If not I'm going to have to make one and really haven't a clue were to start could someone give me a list of parts needed for a basic set up.
Also what does the vacume feature mean? Does it have to be used?
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Although good quality glassware will stand up better to flame contact, you should still never distill using a direct flame. Uneven heating will crack
the glass. Sulfuric acid is best distilled with an air bath and nitric acid is distilled using a hotplate. The vacuum feature simple means that it
allows you to hook it up to a vacuum for vacuum distillation.
The kit seems OK, but I would prefer one with 300mm fractionating column and 300mm condenser, rather than the 200mm in the kit offered by your seller.
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Nitric acid: yes
Sulfuric acid: maybe (needs to reach much higher temperatures)
The vacuum doesn't have to be applied.
List of parts for vacuum distillation (all ground-glass):
Flask
Still head/Thermometer adapter
Thermometer
Condenser
Vacuum adapter
Receiving flask
The kit also has a Vigreux column, which is useful for fractional distillation.
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If it helps I intend to use it for making nitric through H2SO4 nitrate salt probably KNO3 simple distillation so the only thing that needs boiling
will be The HNO3 produced.
I'm still learning proper lab procedure and equipment ect and since I'm just starting out (its only been a few months) I don't have a heating
mantle.
Now you already said no open flame so could I use an electric stove element?
And how do I clean up the mess left over from the reactants
Also I will be using H2SO4 boiled till white fumes from car battery's approx what concentration is this at? I have been told around 98% is that true?
What is the difference between white fuming red fuming and yellow fuming? I have heard all these terms thrown around but am pretty shure there all the
same concentration just with impurity's like NOx gas dissolved in.
Finally this might seem a silly question but google has not satisfied me in its awnsers regarding this.
when people say acid is diluted to 68% do they mean for exsample 68mls nitric 32mls water as in volumetric or is it molar if so because again still
learning these things about how much water to nitric acid ratio by volume please do I use to get fuming down to the 65-68% range. Because I do not
seem to be able to find a chart that says so and so acid in so and so concentration has 7mls to a mole or whatever and even if I could how many moles
of water to acid is 68% ? Confused
Sorry if this seems silly this is just a build up of my frustration at simple things. Oh well still learning
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I have heard that a hot air gun -- the kind that is used for stripping paint is a reasonable heat source for lots of different things. In the absence
of a mantle, I would go that way.
68% nitric acid is on a mass basis.
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So it is moles ?
Or do you mean grams?
PS thanks for the heat gun idea.
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Wait so tell me if this sounds right 2205 grams of fuming + 234 grams water will give me roughly a 63% concentration of nitric acid? If moisture and
contaminants are taken into consideration?
Recalculated dies this sound right ?
4.284 grams RFNA
4.36 grams H20
=68% HNO3 ?
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Mols not moles. You had better learn about two things really quickly. Dimensional analysis and stoichiometry. If you didn't take highschool chem sign
up for chem 1a or the equivalent at any college. Mols are not grams! mols are the way we find the number of grams to react with another substance. If,
for example you wanted to react NaOH with HCl to make NaCl and water you wouldn't want to mix say 9 grams NaOH with 9 grams of HCl.
an Avogadro number of Na would weigh the amount shown on any decent periodical table (another essential). so 6.23X10*23 atoms of sodium would weigh 23
grams. You don't need the Avogadro # but you need to know the atomic or molecular weight of the atom or molecule. So 9 grams of NaOH = how many mols?
Back to the kit; Vigeraux columns are popular with glassware makers and or OK for holding back foam but not much else. So little improvement on the
surface area. I would buy the parts you need instead. I would use a Snyder column or some kits come with two condensers one of which has little bumps
to hold column packing. A short column with little rings or glass balls of anything to make more surface will serve better than a fucking Vigeraux.
Look up theoretical plates but don't bruise your brain about it.
9 g* mols NaOH/40g/mol = 0.23 mols I can't show you how this looks on paper but that is a simple d.a.
HCl is about 18g/mol so 0.23 mols would be 18*0.23 = 4 g. In a proper d.a this would all be on one line. (I should really write one out on a graphics
program and paste it here but it's late and I'm going home besides you need to do a lot of these until they become second nature. Your interest i
chemistry is laudable but please don't try to skip the basics.
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No no I think you misunderstood me I understand what a mol is.
What I'm asking is when making 68% nitric from 84% is am I using grams or mols as a percentage?
For example is it as simple as adding 16 grams of water to 100 grams 84% fuming?
Or do I need to figure out molar percentages and then covert those to grams?
Thank you for the advice on the dist kit by the way.
Sorry if I came across as ignorant but there is difference between an ignorant man who refuses to acknowledge the truth and an eager man trying to
understand the truth.
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The law of dilution
c1v1 = c2v2
So, if you have 84% and you want say, 150mL of 68% then,
c1=0.84
c2=0.68
v2=150
calculate v1. This is the amount of nitric acid to measure out. Then make up to 150mL with water.
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Thank you that's exactly what I needed!!!
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