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@WaffleStaffel
7 ай бұрын
Solid, brother! FYI, by IUPAC convention, it's called _ammonium_ nitrate to reflect the fact it contains the ammonia ion and not the ammonia molecule. And in OKC, there were several reports of multiple devices *inside* the Murrah building.
@Tunkkis
7 ай бұрын
I believe the devices inside the building were ones the ATF had either confiscated, or samples they had. Then again, this was one of the agencies at Waco, and directly led to the Ruby Ridge situation, so who really knows?
@WaffleStaffel
7 ай бұрын
@@Tunkkis Did you know Vernon Wayne Howell, aka David Koresh, used to be an employee at the US Department of Treasury?
@TheFireGoose
7 ай бұрын
Really good method, and like the urea nitrate video you made very economical too, at least for me. Whenever in the past I needed ammonium nitrate I always did the CaNO3-NH4SO4 displacement but I don’t like doing that since the yields are seemingly low and it’s very hard to work with the glob of calcium sulfate in the solution, so this method is really great and Hassle free. Honestly though, one of the reasons I love you and your channel so much is cause your never afraid to break the norm and try unique and new things. This method is completely new to me even though it’s so simple and effective, the same can be said for your other videos too, simple yet genius :) As always great work, and I really appreciate all the effort you put into your videos.
@davidldg6369
4 ай бұрын
make ammonium nitrate: Materials: 138 g sodium bisulfate (found with pool chemicals, used to lower pH) 1 mole equivalent of a nitrate salt, available as any of the following: 85 g sodium nitrate (common food preservative) 101 g potassium nitrate (which you can buy or make yourself) 118 g calcium nitrate (tetrahydrate) ammonia (common household cleaner) methanol (optional, which may be found as HEET fuel treatment) water pH meter or pH paper access to a stove coffee filter or paper towels Procedure: Dissolve the sodium bisulfate in the minimum amount of water (about 300 ml). Dissolve your nitrate salt in the minimum amount of water (amount depends on the salt). Mix the two solutions. Next, you will neutralize the solution, which is quite acidic. Stir in ammonia until the pH of the mixture is 7 or higher. Use a pH meter (or pH paper). Reacting ammonia, sodium bisulfate, and nitrates will give you sodium sulfate and ammonium nitrate. Sodium sulfate and ammonium nitrate have different solubilities in water, so boil the solution to get the sodium sulfate to crystallize. Remove the liquid from heat when crystals of sodium sulfate form in the bottom of the pan. Chill the solution in the freezer to get as much of the sodium sulfate as possible to drop out of the solution. Run the solution through a filter (coffee filter or paper towels) to separate the solid sodium sulfate from the ammonium nitrate solution. Allow the ammonium nitrate solution to evaporate, which will give you ammonium nitrate, with some sodium sulfate impurity. This is ‘good enough’ for most chemistry projects. If you want to further purify the ammonium nitrate, dissolve it in about 500 ml of methanol. The ammonium nitrate is soluble in methanol, while the sodium sulfate is not. Run the solution through a filter, which will give you sodium sulfate on the filter and a solution of ammonium nitrate. Allow the methanol to evaporate from the solution to obtain crystalline ammonium nitrate.
@CATASTEROID934
7 ай бұрын
Ammonium nitrate was often used in mixtures with TNT to form Amatol which retained most of it's effectiveness with up to 30-40% ammonium nitrate as it's positive oxygen balance would offset the negative oxygen balance of TNT which normally would leave a black sooty cloud when bursting (which is probably responsible for the black clouds associated with flak), for uses like blasting and massive mine charges for destroying tunnels, dugouts and fortifications it could be up to 60-80% ammonium nitrate. The UK suffered a massive shell supply crisis beginning in mid to late 1914 and was apparent by 1915 and plants were set up to perform a similar process employing ammonium sulphate and sodium nitrate to produce ammonium nitrate to produce amatol for shell fillings, as a large fraction of nitrates destined for fertilisers or munitions were being imported from producers in Germany like BASF (which employed Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch at the time the process was invented) the UK had to find an expedient solution for producing nitrates for their munitions and the Ministry of Munitions ordered the construction of massive chemical and shell filling plants and the Munitions of War Act 1915 essentially forbade and made a punishable offence of workers of munitions plants from resigning without their employer's permission (which was basically impossible to obtain), imposed very strict limits on working hours, wages and conditions, forbidding strikes, walkouts and other union industrial action, placed private industry under state control among other things. Unfortunately there were several accidents with massive blasts.
@chriseachris
7 күн бұрын
Thanks for posting this, good read.
@AntonSlavik
7 ай бұрын
How would one use this in their vegetable garden?
@Basement_crusader
7 ай бұрын
Add water, pour on vegetables
@thebasementdrummer6909
3 ай бұрын
Saw the intro and subbed
@cranialconstruction2218
3 ай бұрын
Sweet! Thank you very much.
@Tunkkis
7 ай бұрын
I believe the OKC VBIED used ANNM (Ammonium Nitrate NitroMethane) instead of ANFO.
@jacobbrown7367
3 ай бұрын
I just want to clarify, if i am starting with distilled nitric acid and neutralize it with the aforementioned ammonia solution, this would then produce pure ammonium nitrate, correct?
@Ignis_1
7 ай бұрын
Can you do a video on the synthesis of copper perchlorate?
@cranialconstruction2218
7 ай бұрын
Will definitely consider it
@Ignis_1
7 ай бұрын
Thanks
@bbutc
2 ай бұрын
But whenever I buy Ammonia Nitrate it always looks like polystyrene balls, never a powder?
@cranialconstruction2218
2 ай бұрын
Yes, it's often sold in prills as they call it. I'm not sure why.
@johnashcroft8355
Ай бұрын
I would have though calcium nitrate would have been easier? It is more available in the UK, and the calcium sulphate is more insoluble but this doesn't seem to be the case???
@Polkem1
4 ай бұрын
i woudlve kept the solution boiling till almost dry, seeing how soluble ammonium nitrate is in water even at negative temps. So there was probably quite a bit more left in the solution 118 g/100 ml (0 °C) but dont boil to dryness, since dried crystalised ammonium nitrate in a beaker, good luck getting it out without breaking the beaker lol.
@k.k9581
7 ай бұрын
Thanks bro. Questions for sodium perchlorate cell do you need to purify the salt first the NaCl by recrystallization or no need to get good product. Or adding drops of sulfuric acid. while using the lead dioxide anode and cathode pls .thanks again
@cranialconstruction2218
7 ай бұрын
You don't need to purify the salt if you buy it pure at first. It is available online. If you can't find it, then yes recrystallization will indeed help. For this reaction you really need inert electrodes and graphite is a good one. Easily obtained from the inside of old standard batteries. Platinum works but...too much typically.
@k.k9581
7 ай бұрын
@cranialconstruction2218 thanks bro. I heard also lead dioxide anode and cathode are good but adding few drops of sulfuric acid can increase the strat thanks million times for answering back 👍
@adrixyn
7 ай бұрын
Is it possible using KNO3, NH4OH, and HCl ?
@HighEnergeticEnthusiast
7 ай бұрын
No since HCl is a weaker acid it will just form NH4Cl H2O and KNO3 will be unchanged.
@omarabd847
4 ай бұрын
Ammonium carbonate the best
@nastropc
7 ай бұрын
2:20 I heard it was a bald guy with a goatee, think his name was something like Henry Sperg?
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