Making Ammonium Nitrate (Three Ways)

In this video I demonstrate three ways to make the chemical ammonium nitrate. I also include a 4th idea that I didn't feel like doing because it would look identical to one of the other methods and felt redundant.
NOTE: No idea how I missed this but ammonium is NH4 not NH3.. Everything else is the same just imagine there is an NH4 every time you see NH3 :)
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[@3ch0_17]

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[@DarenMiller-qj7bu]

Brother we've been on that list for years now. 😂

[@jasongarland3165]

First time?

[@MitchDonovan]

But its for my plants!!!

[@dominiquegobeil5831]

My plants, trying to save a penny here.

[@wesallstar9273]

World Starrrrr💯

[@guytech7310]

Common Sources for Ammonium Nitrate: 1. Cold Packs. 2. Fertilizer 3. tannerite

[@kevinroberts781]

I buy AN online 25 pounds at a time just to make tannerite.

[@thatoneguy454c]

I think he is Canadian or a citizen of some other communist hell hole. Countries like that want to do everything in their power to make their citizens helpless, so all nitrates tend to be extremely difficult to obtain.

[@thatoneguy454c]

I think he is Canadian or some other sort of communist. In Canada even Acetone is restricted so there is no way nitrates of any kind would be easy to acquire

[@Layde36]

​@@thatoneguy454cwesterners living in their typical ideological bullshit, why can't science be left alone away from humanities nonsense

[@chemistryofquestionablequa6252]

@@thatoneguy454cyou can buy 5L containers of acetone in Canada all day if you want. It’s only really watched if you start buying barrels of it.

[@user-bu1ix6tg9o]

Ammonium nitrate should be made available for people in small scale blasting operations, such as tree trunk removal or earthmoving (slope grading)

[@IncessantMotherfck]

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[@markumoeder]

The threat’s of terrorism limit’s our peacefully freedom.

[@user-rg9xd9mu5r]

Removing tree trunks by blasting? With geniuses like you out and abouy I can see why it's not easy to acquire large amounts.

[@reloadnorth7722]

I keep getting flooded by beavers. I need to remove the dam because the township will do nothing. Most ingredients are very hard to come by here in Canada, and Tannerite is very expensive in large quantities.

[@thatoneguy454c]

​@@user-rg9xd9mu5rin the US it is available in bulk. You can legally purchase 50lbs of it at a time and it is even sold as a binary compound with packs of aluminum powder included. Energetic compounds are ridiculously easy to make no matter where in the world you are. If someone wants to do bad things they will do bad things. Explosive compounds are just a tool and can be used both responsibly and irresponsibly.

[@coreysayre1376]

You got some of the clearest and most concise chemistry videos on the tube man. Lots of fun to watch you go, keep it up! Also, dope ass beats 😁

[@integral_chemistry]

Thank you so much man!! That's what I try for and I'm happy some people appreciate it

[@lung0fish1]

I discovered the calcium nitrate/ammonium sulfate one and you are the first one on the Internet I've seen that mentioned it. It's a LOT safer than the other methods.

[@HammerHeadGarage]

how long do you boil after filtration?

[@experimental_chemistry]

You can purify your ammonium nitrate easily by recrystallization. Another pathway for the synthesis under application of a double displacement reaction is using carbonate and earth alkaline salts. Earth alkaline carbonates are almost insoluble and will therefore contaminate the product in the filtrate much less. They can easily be separated out by gravity filtration without forming claylike residues or blocking filter pores like calcium sulfate. When using ammonium carbonate, which is always contaminated with bicarbonate, the mixture should be boiled before filtration to break down soluble eath alkaline bicarbonate into insoluble carbonate.

[@integral_chemistry]

Thats actually a really good one^^ To be honest I really lack access to many ammonium salts for some reason, I should definitely invest in some ammonium carbonate and ammonium acetate because this is just another example where one of them would have come in handy.

[@experimental_chemistry]

​​​@@integral_chemistry Ammonium (bi)carbonate is sold as a baking powder for a special kind of biscuits. You can buy it in every well sorted supermarket here. Ammonium acetate can easily be made from vinegar and ammonia solution, but the applications besides making the suspected carcinogen acetamide are only small... More often I use ammonium chloride (easy to make from hardwarestore hydrochloric acid and ammonia solution) or ammonium sulfate (well suited for fast patinating copper or making some useful alums or Tutton's salts). A ammonium sulfide soltion (made by bubbling H2S through ammonia solution) is quite stinky but helpful for precipitating cations in qualitative analysis.

[@cezarcatalin1406]

@@integral_chemistry I actually use ammonium carbonate (bakers ammonia) to pull the sulfate ions out of calcium sulfate (gypsum). This is followed by a special electrolysis to separate the ammonia from sulfuric acid. An intermediary step would be pyrolysing ammonium sulfate into dry ammonia and acid ammonium sulfate which is much more soluble in water. It’s a very cheap way to circumvent the EU sulfuric acid ban. The other method involves copper sulfate but that’s more expensive.

[@michaelhicks8603]

@@integral_chemistryyou should do a video exploring different ways to produce ammonia gas, and various methods of using the gas to make ammonia salts. Bonus points if you go all nerd rage and create new/novel approaches for the amateur/home chemist in mind.

[@JohnDoe-xd2ld]

I have 2 young sons, and I want them to know how to do safely. This was what we learned in high school that made it fun and grabbed most kids' attention, in turn helping us retain the lessons. Hopefully, by the time they are going to high school, they'll bring it back and take the bubble wrap off kid's. Great video.

[@integral_chemistry]

Thank you so much! I do agree broadly, most chemists I know say they got into it because they liked watching things explode. I do understand the safety issues for sure, and I feel it was better when we allowed and demonstrated things like this under proper professional supervision instead of just removing things like this completely. The attention grabbers are far from the most interesting things in chemistry, but they give people who otherwise would have zero interest a good starting point (which is invaluable)

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[@os10v311]

you sound like a nice wizard and i enjoy watching these potions being made

[@christophergavila7005]

Awesome video. Showing multiple methods is a welcome mental stretch.

[@retireeelectronics2649]

Like the Ammonium Sulphate and Calcium Nitrate method since I can get Calcium Nitrate at a local horticultural store now. Previously they sold a 21-0-0 which was a mix and not Calcium Nitrate. Excellent video

[@integral_chemistry]

Thanks man! And yeah the blends are definitely what you've gotta watch out for or it'll mess up this whole process. Definitely the method I'd do if I actually wanted a notable amount of this AN

[@cezarcatalin1406]

@@integral_chemistry Have you tried the ozone absorption into ammonia for making ammonium nitrate without a starting nitrate source?

[@thatoneguy454c]

In the US ammonium nitrate is easily acquired. You can order up to 50 lbs of it at a time and it is not considered an explosive on its own. Nitric acid is also sold online or even at Walmart.

[@yazanzo3bi610]

wow , The authorities don't care about this?

[@thatoneguy454c]

@@yazanzo3bi610 it's all about what you do with it. It's perfectly legal to make and detonation 40lbs of TNT so long as it is in a safe location. It is not legal to keep high explosives in your basement though lol. Binary explosives are also perfectly legal so long as you don't transport them after they have been mixed. You also need a license if you intend to use explosives for commercial use. One exception to the transportation of HE is if it is inside of ammunition and under the legal limit that would make it a destructive device. For example if you have explosives shotgun slugs that only have like 2 grams of high explosives then its legal as they just count as ammunition. If you have a federal explosives license and a SOT then it's perfectly legal for you to have fragmentation grenades and claymores lol. Explosives are almost never used by criminals. Like it's extremely rare, and when they do use them it's usually something like a metal pipe full of gunpowder, not professionally manufactured devices.

[@israelCommitsGenocide]

@@yazanzo3bi610 As long as you pay taxes and dont question the kalergi plan you will be fine as an american.

[@eldonjanzen9822]

Nitric Acid sold at Walmart?? No. Nitric Acid is much cheaper to make (if you have a all glass distillation apparatus) . Usually you have to special order it from a chemical company which charges alot for hazardous chemical shipping fees. My suggestion isvto synthesis it in your home lab then you will have the opportunity to create fuming Nitric acid which you cannot purchase it online. Watch nerd rage youtube for directions.

[@thatoneguy454c]

@@eldonjanzen9822 yes, it is sold at Walmart for the purpose of precious metal refining. It's only like 80% but it will get the job done.

[@Ryan-lc4bl]

Just one thing, you've mistaken the ammonium ion (NH4+) as NH3, in all written equations.... (like NH3NO3 should be NH4NO3).

[@integral_chemistry]

oof yeah somehow I made that mistake in every single reaction.. no idea why in my mind ammonium was NH3 when its NH4.. Thanks for catching that

[@planellas6]

very fascinating alternative approach to making AN via salt metathesis using Barium Nitrate and Diammonium phosphate I had not considered this route, very fascinating. Did you know in the aerospace industry 5-200μm particle sized ammonium nitrate is used (with other stablizers and bonding agents to make it now powder and a solid) in rockets. Ammonium perchloate is used fairly often as well both have their advantages and disadvantages but I wont go down that tangent, just me sharing facts no one asked for. Anyways keep up the cool science.

[@integral_chemistry]

Thank you so much! Yeah the rest of the video was really just an excuse for me to do this unorthodox route because I also found it very interesting. And thanks for the info, I didn't know exactly what they used but it definitely makes sense that they would use very fine ammonium nitrate (although the extreme small particle size is actually pretty surprising)

[@guertinD61]

this is the most fun channel on KZbin.

[@SodiumInteresting]

This is good, I can remember when I was first starting out trying to find a way to make this. Now I've got these to try. Calcium nitrate and ammonium sulfate method seems like it might be the way for me to make it. When you say calcium sulfate is slightly soluble in water, the cake formed when reacting calcium nitrate and sodium bisulfate to make hno3 is rather easy to disolve. Thanks for the tip re retrograde solubility, could you just heat the final solution to reprecipitate any disolved calcium sulfate 🤔

[@Nuovoswiss]

Could the calcium sulfate precipitate be more manageable (larger particle sizes) using dropwise addition over a longer duration?

[@Enjoymentboy]

Very interesting. I'm no chemist so I always appreciate videos like this. I wonder would the second method work with magnesium nitrate instead of calcium nitrate?

[@albyshinyfield8841]

Try asking google bard. I assume the valence electrons would need to balance out on the PH spectrum, but if they’re both nitrates then maybe that means they are the same unless it’s N- or N+ or something

[@Titian083]

Oh I’m on a watchlist now

[@Rachel-sx8zw]

It would be interesting to see a small-scale plant with the Haber-Bosch process feeding into the Oswald process feeding into ammonium nitrate synthesis.

[@monkeytechx]

The haber Bosch process industrially runs at 200-400 bar and temperatures between 400-650 oC.

[@zenongranatnik8370]

You don't need to make diammonium phosphate, DAP is very easily available, at least where I live 1. As a fertilizer -cheap -usually sold only in large quantities -often mixed with some brown junk (clay?) and needs a recrystallisation 2. As a yeast nutrient for fermenting beer/wine -more expensive -much purer, usually food grade -sold both in small and large quantities -you need to read the labels since it is sometimes mixed with other nutrients like zinc sulfate, hydrolysed yeast and so on

[@integral_chemistry]

That's true^^ it's also pretty readily available where I am but I figured since I had the ingredients I'd go ahead and make it lol. The other fertilizers I used here also had some of that brown junk in them which I didn't bother with in this video but since I've done a bulk Recrystallization to clean up

[@user-sh7rp4rb4x]

Muito bem explicado

[@ni_wink84]

I can’t think of a single time in my life I was like hmm I need some ammonium nitrate… but here I am a complete moron curious about how it all works lol

[@antejl7925]

Ammonium bicarbonate baking salt which is cheap, neutralised with pH down grow hydroponic solution which is 37% Nitric Acid is another route. The pH down grow solution isn't expensive and needs no hazard shipping. But I dont know if you can get it in the US.

[@sirtango1]

Nice. We used to use the stuff as a kin in the garden. Now you cant get it. Its nice to know that you can produce small amounts at home if needed. My planter garden would thank me if I had the equipment and chemicals! 😂

[@carlospenalver8721]

Isn’t ammonium nitrate available in small quantities? I’m in Europe and for lab grade acetone or as you say in the states when getting verified AAA components you look for the USP stamp but for about a single 30ml bottle it’s about $4-5 usd and I am posting here with 1 question in mind. Isn’t ammonium nitrate one of the ways used in producing high grade graphene. That’s my question, my real interest is producing high grade graphene at lower cost . Any ideas how? Almost forgot one question more. What is the proper way to dispose of graphene? I know it should not be flushed down the drain. Any idea?

[@jamielombardo5292]

I was always wondering if I could add that to gasoline to get more power out of the fuel without having explosive problems destroying the engine just more push

[@benjaminshropshire2900]

Would calcium nitrate and an ammonia solution also work? If done slowly in carbonated water (under pressure?) with an ammonia excess I would think it would produce a fine insoluble calcium carbonate (concrete) precipitate that would be easy to filter and ammonium carbonate (smelling salts) which decompose at very reasonable temperatures (58C).

[@integral_chemistry]

Yeah in theory that would definitely work! I think the only issue might be that there's only so much CO2 in carbonated water so the scale would have to be kept pretty small

[@benjaminshropshire2900]

@@integral_chemistry maybe use a CO2 bottle to keep adding more? You can get that from a welding supply place. IIRC pop cans have a pressure of 1-2 bar so it wouldn't require much specialized equipment. A pressure cooker might be a good vessel if you don't need to watch it.

[@TAWITIBoyAllAround]

Please do video for synthesis of Ammonium Perchlorate in different ways also. From ammonium sulfate, ammonium choride to Naclo4 and kclo4. Do not forget the burn test of it so we can know what is more efficient way to make a strobe rocket fuel. Thanks

[@integral_chemistry]

I've actually been working on making perchloric acid for the last month from table salt, but the electrolysis has thus destroyed every electrode I've been able to make.. I'm seeing some promise with lead dioxide but this crap is crazy corrosive.

[@willowpine2604]

Be careful with perchloric acid is a nasty acid and too dangerous to hold and storage it under 70% it form explosive mixtures and its very oxidizing acid. Friendly advice Stay safe chemistry is tricky if you don't know what you are doing! ​@@integral_chemistry

[@DangerousLab]

I looked up that particular brand of calcium nitrate from Southern Agricultural, Its MSDS stated that it is calcium ammonium nitrate instead (Should be in decahydrates as well), so that ratio is a little bit off on your calculation. The packaging and data on agricultural grade chemicals are so confusing, I think I will recrystallize it before use since I feel like they contain a lot of impurities.

[@integral_chemistry]

Yeah.. I did realize that about 2 weeks ago when I went to use the calcium nitrate for another project.. it doesn't make a huge difference here considering the desired product is ammonium nitrate, but in other reactions (especially organic reactions) this definitely would not work well.. I actually bought 3 bags of fertilizer recently (calcium nitrate, ammonium sulfate, and urea) to use in my projects considering the price is so much better than reagent-grade. They all contain small brown granules of mystery crap, and they all definitely need to be recrystalized before I use any of them again.. which is annoying.. luckily the ammonium sulfate and urea are easy to recrystalize, but calcium nitrate can be very annoying (which is probably why they precipitated it as the double salt with ammonia)

[@karlgoebeler1500]

What about using Nitrogen fixing bacteria in Alfalfa nodules to produce fertilizer naturally?

[@devmeistersuperprecision4155]

Excellent video. I would like to see how to make potassium nitrate.

[@integral_chemistry]

Thats actually the next video I have planned!

[@aroaalward8725]

Good 👍

[@Christian_Bonsai]

Is there a big difference between cloudy ammonia and straight ammonia? Cloudy ammonia is very common where I am but lab grade anything is laughably impossible, see @explosions&ire for example

[@tribalismblindsthembutnoty124]

people 150 yrs from now will say we were being very cavalier with our health while performing chemistry. They will also call this the information age. When our sources of information became disparate, those in power could no longer control what people think about, which is way more important than controlling HOW we feel about any particular subject.

[@jtbmetaldesigns]

I’d like to comment that diabasic calcium phosphate or CaHPO4 precipitates nicely and if you heat the mixture to 70 degrees C, the phosphate will precipitate as the anhydrous salt! Dibasic calcium phosphate is 15 times more soluble in water than calcium carbonate so you should be able to digest for several hours with stirring the calcium phosphate in dilute potassium carbonate in excess to recover the phosphate leaving you with calcium carbonate. So I say a route to ammonium nitrate via calcium nitrate fertilizer with diammonium phosphate should be viable. Especially since the calcium nitrate salt is a double salt with ammonium nitrate anyways!

[@BritishBeachcomber]

Just find a friendly local farmer. They buy Ammonium Nitrate fertiliser by the the tonne every year.

[@avmtamil2424]

Can we use potassium nitrate in the place of calcium nitrate

[@stevenvanames-we2dd]

The fertilizer IS good for the stem and leaves OF THE plants like grass for hay. But for the garden the fruits and vegetables don't last long, they rot quickly. So if U do use it eat every thing UP quickly.

[@vitox_pvp6368]

what happenned between 4:06 and 4:09 ? how did you know the solution was saturated ? when did you put it out of the stove?

[@integral_chemistry]

Ahh yeah I probably shouldn't have cut that footage. Basically the solution began to become almost gelatinous, so I pulled it off and tossed it in a vacuum desiccator to get it as dry as its shown here.

[@jozefnovak7750]

Super!

[@bald_chicken]

Ah 3 ways to get on the list

[@Ecksterphono]

There is a more practical ways to make it as well. Anything that produces nitrogenous waste one can make it that way. There may be a more gross way, but if you collect your urine for instance in a 2 litre pop bottle and let it sit on the shelf in a garage with holes in the lid and it begins to darken. You get a high concentration of uric acid and ammonia concentration. Mind you I would filter the urine through a funnel and cotton filter.

[@integral_chemistry]

Uric acid eh? I've needed uric acid for months to do a project I've been working on, and so far the best idea I've had for making it is the oxidation of glycine.. but if I can steal it from urine even better

[@Ecksterphono]

​@integralchemistry1849 If you want as well. DEF fluid for diesels at truck stops is also good. But the concentration may be low.

[@mazraj8730]

Can I use potassium nitrate instead of calcium nitrate? Please answer me ❤

[@albyshinyfield8841]

Rinsing the calcium sulphate? Does the hot water cause it precipitate and you decant the ammonia nitrate off to be boiled and rinsed again?

[@albyshinyfield8841]

Should hot water be used for the preparation if they’re to be combined immediately?

[@SwapPartLLC]

Knock knock....FBI, we have a warrant.

[@israelCommitsGenocide]

fbi only shows up if you have evidence on some pedophile cannibal leftist politician.

[@su-25frogfoot74]

Thanks! I'm gonna use this for a farm.

[@carnaud]

Fertilizer…it’s what plants crave!!! 🌱

[@user-xk2iv2ft5c]

does ammonium sulfate and calcium nitrate have to be pure

[@fjdarling]

The Atmosphere contains about 70% Nitrogen. What chemicals can be used to capture Nitrogen directly from Air to eventually form Ammonium Nitrate?

[@somebodysomewhere2277]

If you can access both barium nitrate and ammonium sulfate ....why not react those instead of a phosphate?

[@integral_chemistry]

Good question! That was actually my first idea, but barium sulfate is extremely chemically stable and insoluble, so its basically unrecoverable as far as I know once its made. However, barium phosphate can be recovered by dissolving in concentrated acid.

[@somebodysomewhere2277]

my thought was that barium sulfate's insolubility would make it easier to separate through filtration since ammonium nitrate is very hygroscopic.@@integral_chemistry

[@Preyhawk81]

I think the route with sodiumnitrate ammoniasolution and CO2 gas would work fine. Or ammoniumhydrogencarbonate.Should be very pure product because of the little solubility of Sodiumhydrogencarbonate.

[@Ilumin2000]

Method 2, you used water or acid to dissolve both ingredients?

[@integral_chemistry]

Just water

[@user-kt7lb2ni8h]

​@@integral_chemistry How many?😮

[@trumpetpunk42]

Welcome to "The List," gentlemen! :)

[@GiBBO5700]

Air bags in your car use AN. Just go to your local scrap yard and get some airbags. The only hard bit is opening the detonator without creating sparks 🎉

[@flexiblebirdchannel]

Car airbags used sodium azide (and in modern times little gas capsules filled with CO2/Ar under 3000psi pressure).

[@integral_chemistry]

That sounds pretty scary 😅 although yeah I think these days they use sodium azide (even scarier but definitely more valuable)

[@user255]

AN has not been used for ten years in air bags. It is now guanidine nitrate or still sometimes NaN3.

[@yazanzo3bi610]

Can ammonium nitrate be made from urea fertilizer and nitric acid?

[@integral_chemistry]

Not directly, although you can make urea nitrate. Or you could make the urea into ammonia and react that with nitric acid

[@Guds777]

The Beirut blast was 2,750 tons of this stuff...

[@gregoryheim9781]

I've only ever heard it called ammonia nitrate. Even the bottle in the video says ammonia. Is there a difference between ammonium and ammonia?

[@Katchi_]

Are you connected to the same internet as the rest of us? Do you know what the Internet's intent was?

[@gregoryheim9781]

@Katchi_ To not answer a simple, legitimate question, apparently. Oh, and to feed some people's superiority complexes too.

[@beamer1646]

Dear FBI I watch this only for educational purposes

[@fredc3543]

Plants like guano also.

[@9inchsradius]

I feel like I was put on a list just by scrolling past this video 😂

[@user-dc8em3ou2z]

And I heard it was KNO3!

[@Jagdtyger2A]

Unless I forgot my chemistry, can't you use Ammonium nitrate to produce ice in a water bath

[@user-kt7lb2ni8h]

How many water ? method2 Bro

[@experimental_chemistry]

In the EU the use of ammonium nitrate in pure form or in mixtures with a nitrogen content of more than 16 % is illegal for privat individuals. Alkali and alkaline earth nitrates are not banned, but monitored, means: you can get a house search at any time if you order nitrates. Sellers are legally obliged to denuntiate every suspicious order to the authorities. Fortunately there are not many uses for ammonium nitrate in the homelab except for a few pyrotechnical experiments which are forbidden by xplosives act anyways, even on the smallest scale... 🙄

[@integral_chemistry]

The EU laws never cease to amaze me.. hopefully it relaxes someday but it seems to only be getting more stringent. But yeah in this particular case there really isn't too many homelab applications for ammonium nitrate (thats why the only demo I could think of was the endothermic dissolution lol)

[@user255]

At least in Finland and probably also in most EU countries you cannot get permit for house search for such minor thing. Maybe if you buy in kilos.

[@experimental_chemistry]

​​​@@integral_chemistry Imho there are only two scenarios left: either we leave the EU at some point or it will finally strangle us one day by more and more restrictions. 😵

[@experimental_chemistry]

​​​@@user255There are practically no more hurdles to it anymore (although they are constitutionally enshrined), searches can even be subsequently legitimized by a judge - without any real justification. A denuntiated suspicion or a public insulting word is already sufficient for it. The German constitutional state is just saying goodbye...😞

[@variable7833]

This guy must have alot of people watching his house.

[@smoothmove7566]

I'll just go to the store and buy some.

[@soanywaysillstartedblastin2797]

This video was so interesting some men showed at my door to watch it with me

[@glenndavis4452]

Isn’t that diesel DEF fluid ? Just very diluted ?

[@Katchi_]

Isn't that that a dumb question ? Just very diluted education ?

[@glenndavis4452]

@@Katchi_ It was a question. I know there’s ammonia in DEF, wasn’t sure if they went the extra step for best combustion Are you saying that you know either way, and would rather just call people names ?

[@wildeninja2836]

I get mine from fireworks making stores online lol

[@experimental_chemistry]

Where I live DIY fireworks are highly illegal.

[@hantrio4327]

​@@experimental_chemistryI don't think anyone cares if it's legal for you.

[@maxnemo1643]

I thought ammonium nitrate was a common fertilizer. Didnt Tim mcV use that ?

[@DeweyBlanton-ku7db]

Triple 13 and soaked in diesel from what I remember reading.

[@thatoneguy454c]

Yeah, but not in whatever communist country this unfortunate wizard lives in. Unfortunately alot of countries have made nitrates of all sorts extremely difficult for peasants to acquire. Meanwhile with a bit of crime all is possible. Thus the criminals have whatever they want while the simple peasant are caught lacking.

[@DeweyBlanton-ku7db]

@@thatoneguy454c I still know one of these unfortunate peasants, and they have access to said mixtures without upsetting their communist office holders. So off to work we go to pay taxes.

[@mar1video]

It’s amazing what you can find on KZbin when you search for: “ Why my wife farts so much “ 🤦‍♂️

[@SeanHenrichs]

"Today, I'm going to show you how to throw away your nitric acid"

[@eldonjanzen9822]

Good video. Cut the music. The procedure is an easy to follow but the background music is distracting. I usually just mute videos like this and read the transcript to make it easier to follow the procedures.

[@integral_chemistry]

Thanks for the feedback! I've gotten so much mixed feedback on the music. Most of it has been positive, but I feel maybe that is "survivorship bias" as most who don't like the music would just click away and not bother giving feedback. I think I'll release the next couple videos with no music and see what kind of response that gets, as its something I've been thinking about for a while. PS: Initially the music helped cover up my bad vocal delivery, and while I'm still extremely monotone, I feel I don't misspeak as often these days so the music feels increasingly unnecessary.

[@davidstuck2866]

THE reason normal Americans can not buy ammonium nitrate is because of Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City bombing. Prior to that you could walk into anyplace that sold fertilizer and buy 50 pound bags of it anywhere. it was a very common fertilizer and it melted snow, even when temperatures were well below zero. I would still like to have some just for melting ice.

[@wesallstar9273]

Hi guys is this the Honey pot channel? Sorry I am late!!!!🙈

[@Glaudge]

Or drive way out in to the country and find a farm store that sells it by the 20lbs bag

[@integral_chemistry]

Also very viable^^ (that's what I do)

[@rfbirdcontrol]

So am I on a list now? 😂

[@tudogeo7061]

Hello, fellow watchlist items 😁

[@pinnitt]

KZbin recommended this video to me. Which is weird, right?

[@Psychx_]

In the EU one unfortunately can't do any of that. Fertilizers containing nitrates: Only available to farmers with an ID. Potassium Nitrate: if it's anything above 5g, the police will eventually show up, as the seller has to record the addresses of all buyers and send them to the authorities after each business quarter. Sulfuric acid - partially banned, only available up to 14.9% concentration. Hydrogen peroxide: available up to 11.9% concentration. Any higher -> watch list and/or police will show up. Other oxidizers like permanganates or chromates are also impossible to get for private people. The only hypothetical ways for getting nitrates without being treated like a criminal or terrorist (terrorism was the made-up reason for the laws prohibiting access to these substances, but there hasn't been a significant amount of related crimes in the preceeding decade to even remotely justify this) would be getting fireworks and extracting the black powder (super expensive) or the thermal decomposion of aluminium nitrate nonahydrate, bubbling the NOx through water and adding H2O2. Sulfuric acid would also be extremely "DIY" - burning sulfur, dissolving the gas, oxidize. Sulfite does react with oxygen from the air however, so that's a plus. Having to boil the resulting acid at over 300°C in order to concentrate it isn't though. As a side note - producing these banned substances without a permit is also illegal… It's so absurd - people can't even make their own electroplating solutions anymore -.- I'm pretty sure the authorities would also ban table salt (chlorate source via electrolysis) if they could. Oh, and you get absolutely f_cked if you buy more than 1 liter of acetone.

[@integral_chemistry]

Yeah I sometimes get bummed about how hard it is to obtain certain chemicals that can be used for drug manufacture in the US (Iodine, phosphorus/PCl5, acetic anhydride, methylamine HCl, etc.) But posession of those chemicals isn't flatly illegal in the US, and from what I've heard the restrictions in the EU are of MUCH more essential chemicals if you wanted to do any sort of hobby chemistry whatsoever.. it's unbelievably stupid, especially since the level of technical knowledge to take these highly energetic chemicals and make them into a working weapon is very advanced.. very stupid

[@Psychx_]

@@integral_chemistry Yeah. You can't do much without the fundamental chemicals. The only restriction that somewhat makes sense is the restriction of hydrogen peroxide, since making acetone peroxide is comparatively easy (but also insanely dangerous). Funnily enough, one can still buy potassium peroxodisulfate (substitute and possible precursor for H2O2) in bulk, no questions asked. Methylamine and acetic anhydride are a big no-no, but Iodine isn't an issue here - it's not even necessary to make it from iodide. Red phosphorus is a bit more tricky, but can still be obtained via legal channels. Btw, you could theoretically react phosphorus pentoxide with glacial acetic acid in order to get acetic anhydride. P2O5 should still be available even when elemental phosphorus isn't. It can also be used to form anhydrides of many mineral acids.

[@hantrio4327]

The restrictions are stupid and annoying but they don't make home chemistry impossible

[@hantrio4327]

It's not that bad. Reducing agents for example NaBH4 and sodium also dirt cheap compared to the prices in the US

[@hantrio4327]

You can get a lot of stuff in poland and there are always unofficial sources

[@masterninoxxx4life]

Thanks i can finally make the bomb now 👍

[@kotek1296]

6:00 2137 na wadze!!! XD

[@omarabd847]

Ammonium carbonate with nitric acid 😊

[@ringpangtingtang]

that's itching for some diesel and detcord

[@TheMattC9999]

And i will show _you_ three ways to find yourself on a government watchlist.....

[@alexwalker8422]

*T A N N E R I T E* With aluminum powder, _it becomes cheap tannerite_

[@integral_chemistry]

I should do a video on that^^

[@alexwalker8422]

@@integral_chemistry hehe

[@tntomega]

the barium not necessary

[@Ma_X64]

Ammonium Nitrate is EXTREMELY hard to detonate. It only happened in giant piles with contaminants and with very high amount of initiating energy: either a dynamite or a big fire (like in Beirut).

[@jimmyweber8793]

It would be cool to build a combustion engine that would use it. Other than that i want some for my garden and flowers. Dont need that much.

[@turgityfarms3752]

I'm only here comparing notes, I swear. Since we all can make TNT from piss, this is an extraneous info dump.

[@garyroberts2950]

Wrong chemical formula. NH4OH and NH4NO3

[@kukenballe7063]

"Infinitely cheaper"? So free then? You're trying to convey science here so don't use that type of wording please. This is constructive criticism

[@integral_chemistry]

Lol thank you. I'm still not sure what balance I'm looking to strike for my delivery. Either a cold, direct, purely analytical/instructional tone or a looser carefree tone where the science is still replicable but some wording is misleading in being overly hyperbolic or sarcastic in exchange for leaving in a bit of humanity (sorry for that mess of a run-on sentence but you get the idea) What I may do is make a separate account for science that's done and presented a bit "looser" and keep this one for "colder" instructional vids. Honestly, I'm not completely sure but this is something I've thought about a lot.

[@johndunn9819]

This stuff costs about $200/ton. It's extremely dangerous. I think I'll leave the manufacturing to the pros.

[@Nothing-og6ro]

Its not tatp unless it has a fuel its not doing anything

[@user-fc7pu9hj7m]

I wan't to buy

[@JamesSmith-er2pn]

. . .hmmm always get more of this type of video when there's trouble some wheres: started when things heated up in Syria/Isis, and again with Russia/Ukraine and now Israel/Iran. Its like KZbins AI is suggesting you might want to be prepared

[@banksuvladimir]

Lol what the fuck why was this recommended to me

[@Ullion404]

You have such a nice smooth voice, If i was'n occupied with massaging someone, I'm absolutely Sure, that i would've fallen asleep 5 Minutes in the Video. You should start to make sleep Meditations or read goodnight Storys for children.

[@user-kt7lb2ni8h]

FBI View this video💀

[@tiredbird6776]

i have a kilogram of It undee my bed

[@DeliciousDeBlair]

One can readily and easily make their own ammonia and nitric acid at home. Your assessment of the cheapness of calcium nitrate and ammonium sulfate is very wrong. As I own a farm, I have purchased some of both as a matter of process in fortifying crops with nutrients. It is much easier for me to obtain the ammonia and the nitrate from the same manure that I already have on hand from my livestock. As it is a natural product from animals, I get it for free as a side product and need only concentrate them from the manure and filter out the solids.

[@hantrio4327]

Not everybody has a farm and wants to work with feces. The product is also not pure

[@inseries5494]

you got the formula wrong and you stated that you don't know basic chemistry, and you don't like video editing, so why you bother doing videos???

[@integral_chemistry]

Eh I like the final product, it's just getting there is annoying. And yeah the point is much more procedural than academic, I think most people prefer being shown chemistry in action than shown a series of reaction mechanisms and texts. Not knowing basic chemistry was obviously a joke, I do dry jokes on here pretty often when I make small mistakes like forgetting the extra hydrogen in ammonium. Joke was that I've been doing advanced organic synthesis for so many years I've forgotten some of the extremely basic stuff 😅