Throw away your H2SO4 use N2O5 & Anhyd HNO3
The WiZard is In
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18-8-2011 at 10:11
Nitrations with N2O5, anhydrous HNO3 and their admixtures
29th Annual International Conference of ICT
1998
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Some dry cleaners use SC-CO2, perhaps you could use
one of their machines after close of business....!
White Yeti
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12-11-2011 at 13:07
Hmm...
For curiosity's sake, could you use liquid CO2 instead of supercritical CO2 for such a nitration?
PHILOU Zrealone
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13-11-2011 at 14:47
By chance liquid CO2 (what is usually found as solid sublimating dry ice) is already supercritical when under liquid form
a_bab
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18-11-2011 at 02:55
It depends on the temperature Philou.
The best description around is at this genious guy's blog:
http://benkrasnow.blogspot.com/2011/09/close-look-at-supercr...
AndersHoveland
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25-11-2011 at 19:41
about mixtures of dinitrogen pentoxide in anhydrous nitric acid:
Quote:
With N2O5 contents of more than 50%, the nitrating bath becomes difficult to operate because of the difficulty of dissolving N2O5 in nitric acid (at 50°C).
US 4487938