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Desiccator Bag for Drying Liquid Chemicals
I saw this video and this is a very efficient way to dry chemicals, i use calcium cloride and it works really well for hygroscopic chemicals like AN.
In this video also it is said that it is imposible to dry liquid chemicals, but i guess this is because of the use of KOH as a drying agent. What
about if we try other drying agents like calcium cloride for concentrating chemicals like H2SO4 or HNO3.
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DubaiAmateurRocketry
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Yes, I wish there is something that can concentrate HNO3 by simply adding a salt that can pull the H2O out from the HNO3 and simply filter it instead
of doing a whole of distillation and such. Magnesium perchlorate is one of the strongest desiccants.. Not sure if it will work ? Any one ?
I am also eager to know the solubility of Phosphuric acid H3PO4 in nitric acid, so i can simply add P2O5 slowly, and freezing the solution/ filter (if
phosphoric acid is insoluble) However I am afraid it might be miscible with HNO3 since P2O5/HNO3 is often used nitrations reactions.
[Edited on 5-1-2014 by DubaiAmateurRocketry]
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Zyklon-A
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CaCl isn't very strongly hydroscopic, and would not work for H2SO4, in fact H2SO4 is used to desiccate CaCl somtimes.
Does this need to be in Energetic Materials?
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What about HNO3
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So I was boiling sulfuric acid in aluminum soda can today and everything went well actually until it dissolved the inside and went purple? Manganese
sulfate ? Anyways what can I use to boil sulfuric acid? Stainless Steel ?
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Tantalum and Titanium are resistant to boiling sulfuric acid.
Copper nickel alloy is also resistant but to a much lesser extent in a nonoxidizing environment but I would not trust that.
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Pyro_cat
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I made this to try and make anhydrous alcohol.
This video Nile Red I still can't believe that Epsom Salt is mostly water
I don't think my method, the toaster oven got hot enough to drive off the last of the h2o but I got alot of it out.
It worked to dry the alcohol but I did not get to 100%
I think if all the water was driven off the salt it would have been more 'sticky' grabbing away the water still holding on to the alcohol.
I only got the monohydrate.
[Edited on 17-4-2021 by Pyro_cat]
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