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Can I concentrate my 68% nitric acid in to 90%+?
How did you get 90% nitric acid I thought the highest concentration was 68% How d you break the azeotrope?
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Quote: Originally posted by LD5050  | | How did you get 90% nitric acid I thought the highest concentration was 68% How d you break the azeotrope? |
You just distill nitric acid by mixing a nitrate salt and sulfuric acid. If there is only a small amount of water in the acid and the salt, the nitric
acid which comes off can only contain this little bit of water, and will therefore be stronger than azeotropic.
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Can I concentrate my 68% nitric acid in to 90%+?
I made some azeotropic nitric acid by distilling a mixture of sulfuric acid, ammonium nitrate, and water. I know have 68% Nitric acid but I need a
more concentrated form to oxidize Benzyl alcohol into Benzaldehyde. Is there any way to break the azeotropic nitric acid that I already have? I don't
believe I am able to distill fuming nitric acid from H2SO4 and ammonium nitrate because ammonia gas produced will neutralize the nitric acid.
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I only have ammonium nitrate tho and it produces ammonia gas and neutralizes the nitric acid so Is there any way to concentrate the 68 to 90%?
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Yes, there is. You can distill it again with more concentrated sulfuric acid to retain the water. However, if you didn't know this or couldn't find
this out on your own I don't think it's a very good idea. Fuming nitric acid is seriously nasty stuff even when you're not distilling it. The
distillation process produces some nitrogen oxides as well.
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| Quote: Originally posted by LD5050 | | I only have ammonium nitrate tho and it produces ammonia gas and neutralizes the nitric acid so Is there any way to concentrate the 68 to 90%?
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It shouldn't, when you have sulfuric acid in there. You'll be left with ammonium sulfate, which doesn't
begin to decompose until well over 200ºC. Ammonium nitrate is fine, though potassium nitrate or calcium ammonium nitrate is preferable.
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| Quote: Originally posted by Lambda-Eyde | | Yes, there is. You can distill it again with more concentrated sulfuric acid to retain the water. However, if you didn't know this or couldn't find
this out on your own I don't think it's a very good idea. Fuming nitric acid is seriously nasty stuff even when you're not distilling it. The
distillation process produces some nitrogen oxides as well. |
I did a quick search on google and through other sources but couldn't find much other than starting from scratch which I didn't want to do, and also I
only had ammonium nitrate and read that it cant be done because it neutralizes the acid. I figured I would probably be able to distill the 68% from
more H2SO4 to obtain a higher concentration but i wasn't sure so I asked on here. Thanks tho, and I do know the dangers associated with concentrated
acids. What sulfuric to nitric acid molar ratio should I prepare in the boiling flask when doing this? I'm sure its not super important to get it
precise.
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To be honest, you're overthinking it. Your best bet is to prepare sodium or potassium nitrate by adding your ammonium nitrate to a boiling solution of
NaOH or KOH (or carbonate if you don't have a hydroxide available). Ammonia gas will be driven off, and you'll be left with a solution of the pure
alkali nitrate. I'd recommend potassium over sodium because it is much easier to crystallize (if your boiling solution is fairly concentrated, you
should be able to recover most of it just by cooling it).
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Ya I actually just did this procedure, 200g ammonium nitrate and and 100g of sodium hydroxide. I didn't boil it tho except from it boiling on its own
for a couple minutes after I poured in the water. After the reaction died down I put some more water in (around 200ml total) and mixed it around and
then filtered which was a pain. I put it in the freezer to initiate crystalization but not much seemed to happen so I boiled off some of the water
until I saw some precipitate and now i got it cooling on the counter. I see it crystalizing out but the yield seems pretty low.
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Can you end up with above 100 % nitric acid?
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How would you come up with nitric acid above 100%?...thats impossible...
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Nitric acid with its dehydrate N2O5 dissolved in it is referred to as being more than 100%
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STOP ADDING WATER !
Only add water to your round bottom flask AFTER the distillation to get rid of the sulphate salt.
Adding water when you are trying to get a concentrate is a bit counterproductive to say the least.
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Equal volumes of 98% H2SO4 and 65% HNO3 is a good place to start.
There is also a process using magnesium nitrate instead of sulfuric acid. Never tried it but it could be easier to regenerate the magnesium nitrate.
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What´s better to concentrate nitric acid: H2SO4 or P2O5?
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N2O5 is far better 
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| Quote: Originally posted by LD5050 | | I made some azeotropic nitric acid by distilling a mixture of sulfuric acid, ammonium nitrate, and water. I know have 68% Nitric acid but I need a
more concentrated form to oxidize Benzyl alcohol into Benzaldehyde. Is there any way to break the azeotropic nitric acid that I already have? I don't
believe I am able to distill fuming nitric acid from H2SO4 and ammonium nitrate because ammonia gas produced will neutralize the nitric acid.
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When you did this, did you distill nitrogen dioxide? I have been trying to do this for some time. Any tips?
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| Quote: Originally posted by Booze |
When you did this, did you distill nitrogen dioxide? I have been trying to do this for some time. Any tips? |
Do you, for some weird reason want nitrógen dioxide, or do you want nitric acid? As somebody alredy told you, nitrogen dioxide is a product of the
decomposition of nitrix acid, if you want nitric acid, you dont need to "distill nitrogen dioxide"
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Define "better".
P2O5 is a potent chemical, capable of dehydrating even stubborn chemicals/mixtures. But regenerating phosphoric acid back to P2O5 isn't possible. So
unless you have good access to P2O5 and have a use for the phosphoric acid H2SO4 will be better as it can be re-concentrated by distillation.
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Just to remind: the pure compounds in the system are:
HNO3 - boils at +83, freezes at -42
N2O5 - melts at +41, boils at +47
N2O4/NO2 - boils at +22, freezes at -11.
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| Quote: Originally posted by Booze | | Quote: Originally posted by LD5050 | | I made some azeotropic nitric acid by distilling a mixture of sulfuric acid, ammonium nitrate, and water. I know have 68% Nitric acid but I need a
more concentrated form to oxidize Benzyl alcohol into Benzaldehyde. Is there any way to break the azeotropic nitric acid that I already have? I don't
believe I am able to distill fuming nitric acid from H2SO4 and ammonium nitrate because ammonia gas produced will neutralize the nitric acid.
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When you did this, did you distill nitrogen dioxide? I have been trying to do this for some time. Any tips? |
Very little brown/red nitrogen dioxide was formed I also used NileRed method. After the first distillation the acid will be pretty weak especially if
its cold. I added this to some copper with not much effect at all. I then proceeded with a fractional distillation and collected everything after 120c
and ended up with azeotropic nitric acid which I got a VERY strong reaction when added to copper. The entire process is pretty straight forward I'm
confused as to what you are having trouble with ( I saw your other post). I would suggest to fractionally distill the distillate after the first
distillation.
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You don't need highly concentrated nitric acid to oxidize benzyl alcohol.
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Tsjerk is correct; if you even read my original benzaldehyde thread you'd have seen all the papers that achieved even better results than mine using
dilute nitric acid and a small amount of nitrite.
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Azeotropic, 68 % nitric acid is near an eutectic at about 71 %.
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| Quote: Originally posted by Amos | | Tsjerk is correct; if you even read my original benzaldehyde thread you'd have seen all the papers that achieved even better results than mine using
dilute nitric acid and a small amount of nitrite. |
Amos I did in fact read your thread and I wanted to try the 10% nitric acid method but I didn't have any nitrite and without out it the yields aren't
to great.
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