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Citrazinic acid; fail or success?
Hey people.
I tried making Citrazinic Acid today, sounded like a easy project I could do without proper lab equipment.
But I'm not sure whether I was successful or failed at this.
What I did was;
1. Weighed up 11 grams of Citric Acid, and 5 grams of Ammonium Carbonate
2. Put 2g of citric acid in pyrex beaker and placed it on electric stove, turned the stove up to lowest setting( I don't have a thermometer, but I
know
that citric acids melts at 153Celsius).
3. Waited for the 2g of citric acid to melt, then I mixed the remaining Acid(9g) with the Ammonium carbonate, and poured them into the beaker.
(I assumed that the (NH₄)₂CO₃ would've decomposed if I had poured it into the pyrex beaker without heating citric acid to melting point first)
4. Stirred the liquid mix of (NH₄)₂CO₃ and Citric acid, making sure that everything reacted. Also added some more Ammonium Carbonate, ~0,5g.
I heated it for about 15 minutes, might've been too long. First it went from white to slightly yellow, then yellow, then brown.
AND HERE'S WHAT I ENDED UP WITH:
(6g in total)
Powder/crushed crystals, excuse the bad quality.
This gets syrup-ish when heated, but is solid/crystal at room temperature.
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Nicodem
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It would help, if you would cite the references you used and above all measure the melting point. Surely you don't expect people are able to do
spectroscopic analyses via pictures?
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Quote: Originally posted by Nicodem  | | It would help, if you would cite the references you used and above all measure the melting point. Surely you don't expect people are able to do
spectroscopic analyses via pictures? |
>spectroscopic analyses
haha you said anal
Does this thread here; http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=8378
count as a reference? I used that one.
And I'm not able to measure the melting point! BUT, I put some in a test-tube and held it over a candle, it took about ~3 seconds before it melted.
But a test tube over a candle is not reliable for measuring melting points eh.
ALSO! It is only slightly soluble in water, almost insoluble. It gives the water a tint of yellow.
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