The Vespiary
The Hive => Chemistry Discourse => Topic started by: Vibrating_Lights on October 28, 2001, 10:35:00 AM
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if ammonium nitrate is used to produce ammonia gas with NaOH what is the salt produced. Sodium Nitrate?
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Yep
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Useful reaction - you get your ammnonia gas, and you get a useful salt - now make some poppers with that salt....
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A double whammey........
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Poppers are made with sodium nitrite, not sodium nitrate.
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nitrite is like a wonder chem... lots of fun shit to do with it. Bombs, poppers, pseudonitrosite, etc
blah blah blah something clever blah blah blah
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Err - silly me - not sure how I misread THAT one.
My apologies.
What was the interesting use for sodium nitrate - I would have sworn there was one?
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I would do a search on that but i am conserving energy I do understand there is a difference between nitrates and nitrites one is worse for fish they have test kits otc for this kida stuff please carry on I am interested per ussual
Amethystium
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Uses for sodium nitrate (from the search engine)
Convert to sodium nitrite by adding it to molten lead, then filtering off the lead oxide (UTFSE for a more detailed writeup)
Also in "PART 2 of 6: LARGE SCALE OLD SCHOOL METHAMPHETAMINE PRODUCTION"
And, what I remember it from - explosives, smoke bombs (smoke bomb recipe says Potassium Nitrate, however sodium nitrate can be substituted)
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Sodium nitrATE is used as a meat preservative. Read the label on that hunk of "the other white meat".
ANd, yes you are right, crude gunpowder can be made with either saltpetre or Chile saltpetre.
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sodium nitrate keeps beef looking extremely red, and can make old brown meat red again. wonderful "preservative", ain't it?.
Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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Bozak: you are wrong here. It is the nitrite that is the preservative. Its a global preservative of like 90% of foods and its in ever goddamn household product that you at least partially ingest: i.e. mouthwash, etc.
PrimoPyro
P.S. Still have doubts? Take heed: Nitrates are poisonous to humans, nitrites are not. The FDA (here in U.S.) would never approve of adding a poison to all foods.
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Nitrites are the preservatives, yes, but you are wrong on the toxicity issue. It is indeed the nitrites that are more poisonous than nitrates.
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The FDA (here in U.S.) would never approve of adding a poison to all foods.
This was sarcasm? I wasn't certain, you seem to have omitted the ;) or :P icon.
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NaNO3 is available by the ton in the gardening section.
called Nitrate of Soda - trick name, eh?
just glad to bee here-----he he he
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terbium: yes thats sarcasm. damn smileys dont work for me half the time.
Rhodium: wrong about toxicity? Strange, because I read this in some sort of scientific literature. Cant remember if it was a dictionary, the Merck, or something else, but Im gonna try and find the ref. Thanks for the knowledge though.
PrimoPyro
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I stand corrected, but I'm a goddamn vegetarian so what the fuck do I know?
I guess one could burn your hot dogs down to carbon, add a touch of sulfur and have gunpowder. The dudes on the meth board might buy this one... heh, heh..