Make Nitric Acid without Sulfuric Acid by Oxalate Precipitation

In this video we make nitric acid by reacting calcium nitrate with oxalic acid.

The process is rather simple, dissolve 300g of Calcium Ammonium Nitrate (A common fertilizer) in 1L of water and then dissolve 150g of Oxalic Acid dihydrate in 300mL of water with heating. Then mix the two. A white precipitate of calcium oxalate is formed. Filter this off and distill the filtrate. The distillate will be dilute nitric acid. Fractionally distill that to get azeotropic nitric acid. The yield is around 74%

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[chriscarley]

Thank you for another possible cost reducing nitric opinion.

[TheBlackKnightmare]

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[kentherapy]

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[Samonie]

im glad there's finally a video on this method, thanks for taking my suggestion and making a really good video on it

[yt]

Interesting method. Since I can get 25kg of Sodium Bisulfate for 42, 99€ with free shipping, I'll stick to that method if I need nitric acid.
As a bonus on top of better cost effectiveness, you get fuming nitric acid directly, which is always easier to dilute to regular nitric acid than the other way around.

[twocvbloke]

Best hold off on any glycerol videos after this for a bit perhaps... :P

[tntomega]

is it possible to make nitric acid from diesel exhaust I seen a bus smoke is red (i am a mechanic ) can i bobble it to water and i get nitric acid?

[front]

Hi Nurd.Funny that you posted today as just made Nitric with calcium nitrate and sodium Bisulfate (Pool supply).Looks like it worked.Just waiting for it to cool off and then will test.Thanks for your help again.

[keithcarpenter]

Apparently, 'They' don't like the people having anything nitrated to an interesting level!😮😊

[till]

use nitric acid to make oxalic acid to make nitric acid. (that might even be a good option cause while making oxalic acid NitrogenDioxide forms and you can win your nitric acid back).

[grahamspellman]

These videos feel different now that I’m an adult

[FezCaliph]

I love to see you make a jar of pickles 😅

[jbeckley]

Could you distill without filtering out the calcium oxilate first?

[MrMoriarty]

Nitric acid from rhubarb leaves. Sounds good to me...

[tr]

Is there any easy way to recover Oxalic acid back from CaC2O4 ?

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[imikla]

Great video! I always love learning new pathways to get useful reagents, and this presentation is another outstanding example!
I look forward to trying this for the experience! Thank you!

[xfxox]

Can this reagents be melted together without water?

[wernervanderstraten]

Can anyone help out? I have an aqueous solution of Pb(NO3)2. Through electrolysis all of the Pb was combined into PbO2. Now does that means the NO3 ions are still in the solution and can i add oxalic acid to produce HNO3 and oxalate? And then carry out the procedure above?

[napalmholocaust]

If zinc acetate dried on a cloth prevents silver tarnish in long term storage what is the equivalent to protect polished copper?
Those little anti-tarnish papers sold for jewelry protect both metals (and alloys). I'd like to make them if I could, for pennies.
Thanks in advance if anyone knows.