Sarmento
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How to make KNO3 (Potassium Nitrate) at home?
Hi,
i've tried to make some kno3 at home with a method which uses soil and wood ashes, but it only gave me a little crystals.
Do You know some best way to make it at home?
Thanks
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hissingnoise
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You could extract it from the dried manure of farm animals, but it's still a lengthy process with little return for the effort . . .
Buying it is waaay easier!
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Which chemicals do you have which are containing nitrate ? May be then we can help you there are lots of videos on youtube which shows the synthesis
of potassium nitrate
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This has been covered many times on this forum and on other sites and on YouTube as Vikascoder said. Please search around a little before posting.
"Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." Winston Churchill
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Mix potassium hydroxide with nitric acid
Or, transplant nitrifying bacteria to a jug of oxygenated ammonia solution and neutralise the solution periodically with potassium carbonate.
Evaporate to dryness.
Making such a rudimentary substance is just not worth it, buy it at your local hardware store.
"Ja, Kalzium, das ist alles!" -Otto Loewi
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Sarmento
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These are the first impure crystals of KNO3 that i have collected today, synthetized by the way i described on this topic.
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