menchaca
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another way to nitric acid
i´ver recntly have find somo information about how nitric acid was made in medieval ages the reaction was this:
CuSO4 + 2KNO3 ---->K2SO4 + CuO + 2NO2 + 1/2O2
the CuSO4 were strongly heated in an iron pipe and the NO2 gases were conduced to water were formed the nitric acid. What do you say about it? thanks
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Mephisto
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That’s right. I found similar preparation here. But it’s in German.
A mixture of KAl(SO4)2 · 12 H2O, KNO3 and CuSO4 · 5 H2O (in same parts) is heated in a dry glass tube. The evolved gas is condensed in another cold
tube and should be concentrated nitric acid.
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