Re: making colored fireworks

From: Don T (flashmax_at_ix.netcom.comghost)
Date: 08/24/04 

Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 18:01:50 GMT

 Do not accept or reject an answer based on theory. Just try the experiment.
10 Ml 70% HNO3 then enough clear household ammonia to cause the solution to
go slightly alkaline. See what happens. I dare you. 

-- 
Don Thompson
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"Dirk Bruere at Neopax" <dirk@neopax.com> wrote in message
news:2p1d4bFffhguU1@uni-berlin.de...
>
>
> Don T wrote:
>
> > "Dirk Bruere at Neopax" <dirk@neopax.com> wrote in message
> > news:2p10n8Ffa2kbU1@uni-berlin.de...
> >
> >>
> >>Death to Smoochy wrote:
> >>
> >>>To make ammonium nitrate all you need to do is neutralize some
household
> >>>ammonia (ammonium hydroxide) with nitric acid, and then collect the
> >>>precipitate.  Since it has two nitrogens, it has a higher stored energy
> >>>than potassium nitrate.
> >>
> >>There won't be a precipitate.
> >>
>
> >  Yes there will.
>
> So AN is not extremely soluble in warm/hot water?
> % of NH3 in household ammonia? % of HNO3 in 'conc' HNO3?
>
> Unless you are talking about bubbling NH3 gas into RFNA...
>
> -- 
> Dirk
>
> The Consensus:-
> The political party for the new millenium
> http://www.theconsensus.org
>

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