g3nius427
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decomposition of NH4NO2
anyone know the products in this decomposition
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Marvin
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Nitrogen and water. The stuff isnt stable normally, slowly decomposing, but can be kept in a high vaccuum for long periods.
Its also explosive incidentally.
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g3nius427
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thanks so nitrogen and water are the only products?
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Marvin
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The only major products, trace amounts of other chemicals will occur from side reactions but its pointless to list every possibility.
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g3nius427
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ok thank you
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Sorry about resurrecting an old thread, but what has been written here is not true. NH4NO3 is a stable compound, it doesn't decompose over time.
It does absorb water from the air, thus becoming desensitized.
But don't worry about it's sensitivity, this stuff is only gonna explode if you use some kind of strong blasting cap on it, NH4NO3 CANNOT
incidentially explode.
The chance that NH4NO3 is going to spontanously explode equals the chance that a spoon full of tablesalt is going to explode spontanously.
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Dodoman
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The compound refered to was NH4NO2 (ammonium nitrite). You are talking about NH4NO3 (ammonium nitrate).
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Southern_Trendkiller
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didn't see that, sorry. my fault 
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Joeychemist
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Nitrates and Nitrites
Southern Trendkiller
I realize you did not notice, but let this be a lesson. you have to watch out for stuff like that, If you’re not paying attention to what you’re
doing you could very easily kill your self by mistaking nitrites with nitrates. It’s very dangerous to mistake the two.
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cyclonite4
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The decomposition of Ammonium Nitrite sounds like it could be uselful.
I assume it would decompose as such:
NH4NO2 ---heat---> 2H2O + N2
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JohnWW
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It would probably be highly exothermic, although not as much as the explosive decomposition of NH4NO3. Also, I think that minor byproducts may be NO,
NO2, and N2O.
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cyclonite4
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Exothermic enough to turn the water into steam? otherwise it would probably discontinue itself.
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