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Extract BOTH nitrogens from urea?
I have a lot of urea but i need a lot of NH4 salts so i wanna convert the urea to NH4 salts. I know 1 of the urea N can be easily converted to NH4+,
but how easy is converting the other N to also NH4+?
[Edited on 210128 by fusso]
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I don't see how that could be done in a one pot way the only way I can think of is heating urea till it breaks apart to ammonia and carbon dioxide
then condensing it to form ammonium carbonate.
Reacting urea with sodium hydroxide and leading the ammonia into an acid would be the other way
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Why not add the urea to sodium hydroxide then capture the ammonia gas in water to form ammonium hydroxide?
You can then react ammonium hydroxide to form your salts.
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Quote: Originally posted by B(a)P ![](images/xpblue/lastpost.gif) | Why not add the urea to sodium hydroxide then capture the ammonia gas in water to form ammonium hydroxide?
You can then react ammonium hydroxide to form your salts. | But can this extract the OTHER N from the urea?
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Quote: Originally posted by fusso ![](images/xpblue/lastpost.gif) | Quote: Originally posted by B(a)P ![](images/xpblue/lastpost.gif) | Why not add the urea to sodium hydroxide then capture the ammonia gas in water to form ammonium hydroxide?
You can then react ammonium hydroxide to form your salts. | But can this extract the OTHER N from the urea?
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Isn't the reaction as follows?
NH2CONH2 + 2NaOH -> 2NH3 + Na2CO3
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Oh i thought
it'd stop at cyanate.
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If you want it to stop at cyanate you need less alkali.
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In the wiki page for isocyanic acid it said 'isocyanic acid hydrolyses to carbon dioxide and ammonia' but didnt state the rxn conditions, does anyone
know what conds are needed?
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