Making Nitric Acid from Dirt [composted]

[@tracybowling1156]

I really appreciate that you're videos are so much different than other chemistry channels. You are doing a great job! I have so much fun watching your channel!!!

[@soapw8420]

You could scrap these nitrates in the bottom,put them in water ,boil the water then let it sit overnight and you results would be KNO3 crystals

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[@Visvangmeneer]

Istn chemistry cheap? if you know what youre doing😂

[@dangoldbach6570]

So if you have nitric acid mixed with sulfuric in the presence of organic compounds, what keeps it from forming nitrate compounds in the boiling flask? Wouldn't that potentially be making explosive compounds like picric acid or picrate salts?

[@christopherbegley8755]

Outside my pay grade

[@chemistryofquestionablequa6252]

Probably not picrates unless the manure was contaminated with aspirin, salicylic acid, or phenol. It could form explosives with other organic compounds, but it would be in tiny amounts and it's not really enough to be a risk, I wouldn't think.

[@علم-ح1ح]

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[@mandarin1257]

I have a bag of nitrate fertilizer in the garage, actually. I gotta try this.

[@YouMockMe]

There is also the urea route! If you have beers, you have ur supply!!!

[@bobsunkees3392]

One cup fertilizer three cups of distilled water in a CorningWare glass type container low boil or simmer for an hour and a half let air cool cover put in refrigerator when it's air temperature and you will have crew pure crystals form in the bottom and sides Pura the liquid into another glass container now you have here nitric powder don't have to distill it or distillation

[@phobos1963]

@@bobsunkees3392you shouldn’t make nitric acid if you don’t have the equipment for a simple distillation, and/or the skill to carry a distillation or a fractional distillation

[@allenhonaker4107]

Have you tried doing this in a Soxhlet extractor? I think you will get a better yeald from the extract

[@WheelerScientific]

Hmm, might have to try that, good idea.

[@allenhonaker4107]

@@WheelerScientific The Soxhlet works well for me but after watching it work for a while I think an old fashioned percolator might work as well. 😂 I'm going to find one and try it out so if you hear a loud boom you'll know it didn't like perking ethanol🤣🤣🤣

[@dave4882]

How did the romans get sulphuric acid?

[@SV_Try_Magic]

Prodicing biochar or roasting sulphides in a retort. They were resourceful.

[@walterrwrush]

Iron Sulphides in water out side in the sun make a blue green fluid when dried and roasted the gas mixed with water makes sulphuric acid

[@RonaldDonald-m7v]

By mining brimstone and burning it in the presence of water I think

[@JadAzido]

The jumpcut during distillation gave me a heart attack O.O

[@lukebowers536]

chickennitrate, awesome demo of how it used to be done.

[@charleschidsey2831]

I couldn’t stop thinking about the scene in Austin Powers where he inadvertently sips on Fat Bastard’s stool sample.

[@captainKedger]

Many people here are thinking of nefarious purposes for this knowledge but this distillation is actually how magicians make things like flash paper so they can throw fire balls safely.

[@chemistryofquestionablequa6252]

People who want to do nefarious things with explosives aren't going to this much work, they're going to make TATP and hopefully blow off their hands.

[@petevenuti7355]

Or IN3(Iodine trinitrate?) Very super easy to make! & They'll blow something off as soon as they touch it! But yeah I believe the point was that the nefarious types are also too lazy to go to this much effort.

[@circuitsolutionsrepairllc1231]

It’s nitrogen trioxide complexed with ammonia. Iodine trinitrate isn’t a thing.

[@circuitsolutionsrepairllc1231]

Damn auto correct. I meant to say nitrogen triiodide

[@petevenuti7355]

@@circuitsolutionsrepairllc1231 all I know is that the crystals of it self trigger from simply drying.., and a big pile washed down the drain will keep the neighborhood up all night as random small chunks pop and bang for many hours in the sewer pipes. Found that out at 14, (30 years ago)... Before the internet there were libraries and word of mouth.

[@Flederratte]

Very cool project! I am now subscribed to your channel. Where did you get the chicken droppings from? Have they been treated so the nitrate content is enriched, or is it just air died and ground up stuff? I was thinking about making a aerobic bio reactor by bubbling air through a water and chicken manure slurry.

[@gggsk363]

Did you make it?

[@Flederratte]

@@gggsk363 No. I had no time for that. It is not a very important project of mine. Maybe some time in the future I will try.

[@KiyotakaAyanokoji-uo4uj]

Remember dr stone ,suika made nitric acid from dirt too albeit in 7months

[@dogodogo5891]

instead water from chicken manure can i use liquid fertilizer from my kitchen waste fermentation?

[@colemair5367]

Could I use sodium hydroxide to get more sodium nitrate want to get more fertilizer out of it. Sodium nitrate isn’t really in are hardware stores in Spain.

[@HyenaEmpyema]

It would be a funny plot to a movie where a prisoner meticulously collects and dries his poop for years only to one day blast through the prison walls with self produced explosive.

[@Bradyarthurmcgu]

this man is 4 parallel universes ahead of us

[@BillAnt]

And those who are nitrogen deficient, just add a bit of that chicken poop slurry to your coffee. :D :D

[@koukouzee2923]

Is the "poop" straight up chicken droppings or is it proccesed is niter bed like thing ?

[@WheelerScientific]

Its been composted.

[@andrewvogel5344]

Can you use sodium hydroxide instead of potassium hydroxide?

[@cristiii7605]

Yes but you get Sodium nitrate

[@chemistryofquestionablequa6252]

You should use a vacuum take off adapter to connect your collection flask, otherwise you can pressurize your glassware and have a bit of an explosion. It's the curved one with the hose barb on it. Great video!

[@WheelerScientific]

I used a straight vacuum adapter, my curved one started to crack, thank you for the comment!

[@ChachuIsagoodboy]

Is it okay if we don't use potassium hydroxide?

[@HimanshuSharma-sd5gk]

Intro to video: "let me oil massage this poop bag."

[@كمجونقاونن]

can i use Sodium hydroxide? and what will happen?

[@MOHAMMED-OBAIDAT184]

can we use sodium hydroxide instead of potassium hydroxide

[@chariot.progressive]

So wait. You had your concentrated nitrate chunks at 12:07 and then you added sulfuric acid? I didn't see you add anything so i just trying to make sure.

[@bigskyproducers]

Could you use coffee grounds? Aren't they higher in nitrogen?

[@christopherbegley8755]

I just need a rough in type o anything to dissolve the quartz from my very fine gold ore, or any advice on other ways o separation, electrolysis sounds fun ,but anyways very expensive? Help!

[@i_me_myself0_0]

watched Dr.stone and is here to to do some magic stuff🤫😁

[@BackYardScience2000]

Bravo! Very cool! Now I know what to do if I ever get stranded on a desert island with a bunch of chickens! Make chicken s**t flares! That actually sounds pretty damn fun! Hahaha!

[@philoupaulo]

will it be possible to proceed with used cat litter when it stink strong ammonia ?

[@mordechaistein]

I don't have a tripod but I do have every other form of equipment imaginable on hand.

[@pacman10182]

I've got a neighbor who raises goats, I might try this... how would you purify the nitrates?

[@WheelerScientific]

You could do a fractal crystallization purification process or make nitric acid

[@pacman10182]

@@WheelerScientific I've got more use for the the nitrate salts then the acid, I'll give it a try

[@JeffreyCC]

Why not steep the stuff and pour it through a filter instead of tossing hot water over it?

[@craig3645]

After the water was boiled off and the powdered material was put into the clean narrowed glass for the next step you missed showing what you added to it to get it to boil again to produce a gas to be distilled to a liquid. I'm at a loss seing this the first time?

[@geeljireoomaar6140]

Distilled water about a quart

[@-AT-WALKER]

Use to live near a mushroom farm that used chicken poop for fertilizer. Brave move making that indoors to educate us all - sub'd with notifications on

[@imronzuhri12165]

Can be from sheep ?

[@samy2557]

good evening . i thank you very much for posting this video it was so helpful can i use sodium hydroxide in stead of potassium thank you again for your quick answer and help Best Regards

[@WheelerScientific]

Yes, you can.

[@samy2557]

hello sir can i make sulfuric acid from battery acid thank you very much @@WheelerScientific

[@mohameddjdj3105]

Thank you for the idea. Could you provide me with the idea in pdf form so that I can translate it?

[@koukouzee2923]

Did you really have to convert it to potassium nitrate ? What if I use sodium hydroxide instead

[@damonfernandez1334]

It will ball up and dry on boil point

[@nic0linho]

When you boil water on the plate you should put a glass rod into it. Nice video though =D

[@Biokemist-o3k]

Always use Anhydrous water....I heard you get better yields...lol

[@Kl5.07]

Is it possible to use sodium hydroxide instead of potassium hydroxide

[@commonsense-og1gz]

if you do that, you will get sodium nitrate. this is still a saltpeter though. i don't know if it is the sodium or potassium versions that is considered Chile saltpeter, but it should work, sodium hydroxide is a stronger base, but i think he used potassium hydroxide to serve as the potassium donor.

[@user255]

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[@craigpater6278]

Fascinating chemistry video excellent quality very well done sir keep up your good work. Fortunately for me if I want a 68% nitric acid solution it's not necessary for me to synthesize it myself since buying small quantities of 68% nitric acid online (no more than one 5 litre container at a time) is completely legal in South Australia where I live

[@PortalAuditor]

Can I use NaOH if i dont have KOH?

[@cristiii7605]

You could use Potassium Carbonate and I think your result would be better (you can get Potassium Carbonate from wood ash)

[@thesciencefurry]

Idk how I missed this video. I made a video about making nitric acid from air. But the quality is pretty low, so I will remake it and distill the nitric acid aswell.

[@khength3]

Can you make sulfuric acid ?

[@علم-ح1ح]

How do they make potassium nitrate from dirt, please?

[@geeljireoomaar6140]

Remember he add potassium hydroxide in the beginning. It decomposes into K an OH ion. K combines with NO3

[@Syria72662]

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[@عبدالله-ذ5ل1ق]

If i left potassium hydroxide or changed it in another metal hydroxide?

[@captainKedger]

Metal is a very broad term. Every metal has its own very different chemical properties. That's like asking about making chicken soup and saying "what if I use a different meat instead of chicken" well you'll get soup but it won't be chicken soup. What it WILL be depends on what you put in it.

[@عبدالله-ذ5ل1ق]

@@captainKedger if i added potassium hydroxide for example

[@WheelerScientific]

Yes his question makes plenty of sense and does work, as long as it follows the reactivity series.

[@garrysekelli6776]

This is like mcgyver making a boobytrap out of a banana and a swetty sock.

[@captainKedger]

The video doesn't show the reaction to the copper but you say it was reacting but fail to mention exactly what reaction we should be looking for. Also, I think your paper towel test didn't show a very good reaction because you evaporated the water on the hot plate. You'd get a more sparkling burn if you let it air dry in the sun or under a fan, in a dehumidifier or something.

[@WheelerScientific]

A reaction is a change in something on a chemical basis, due to this being a chemistry video I make the assumption the person that is watching has a basic familiarly with that. Around 13:13 there are bubbles from the reaction, it is not all that vigorous due to the low concentration of the nitric acid. For the paper towel that reaction burns like that due to all the impurities present, also due to the low concentration of nitrates.

[@damonfernandez1334]

Redox reaction, notice the change of color almost instantly upon contact as well as slight oxidation on the outside of liquid

[@chemistryofquestionablequa6252]

Subscribed just for the concept, could be useful in the future.

[@unlockeduk]

nice proof that it works great stuff

[@falsedragon33]

A good use case for a cheap french press.

[@phonotical]

And just like that, I've had to stop eating

[@isabutchers5591]

how is your poop so clean? it doesnt look like its got feed, or feathers, or leaves even

[@alish5417]

Withiut sulpheric acid no nitric acid can be made ,its better to use the catalyst to producr nitric from ammonia , from thin air ,not thick air

[@tonytrade]

I think is easier dissolve completely manure in hot water, then decanting and filtrate the upper liquid.

[@SamboJones-vs1rh]

boil a pot of poop and strain it

[@siddharth-wy2kp]

Make a vid on extracting uranium from soil 😀

[@WheelerScientific]

I want to but I still don't have a full understanding of the laws regarding.

[@petevenuti7355]

@@WheelerScientific I'm not a lawyer but I'm pretty sure if you can buy it legally, you could extract it out of the dirt legally too, I'm also very confident that enriching it is illegal.. And that's just talking about federal law, state law might be different, for instance I live in New York and if I found gold or silver I have to give it to the government and can't make a claim on it even if it's on my own land, I figure that's why there's no more gold or silver mines in New York, it would be obviously not profitable if you have to give it all away!

[@WheelerScientific]

You can, I have a video were I show uranium metals properties. There a KZbinr Cody’slab that got checked up on for processing uranium, and I just don’t want the feds at my door over a KZbin video. As much as I wanted to, I have to wait till I get a better lab and make sure it’s all go to go.

[@TheRojo387]

Nitroglycerine is closer than I thought!

[@TracyGolman]

Funfact using amonia cleaner sulfuric drain opener and a silver ring u can produce a high explosive

[@sidneyswerissen3910]

Hmm hopefully you didn’t make a mistake of switching your coffee

[@clifffowler2581]

Spoiler alert kids.....he doesn't use good old dirt...... which probably baited you to watch like it did me in the first place...😩..... Look out for the next video where he'll make solid gold from regular tap water....see you then.... bye for now 🙋

[@cristiii7605]

You can do this with dirt you find in your backyard but your yield will be very poor...

[@geeljireoomaar6140]

I don't understand how you can form metha bi sulfata. There is no a sodium atom involved

[@maheralaziby8520]

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[@Kl5.07]

نعم فضلات الدجاج

[@LuisMartinez-mg3pf]

So appreciative of your empathy for Viewers eye rolling come on get to the point mentality of the

[@WheelerScientific]

Huh?

[@thematronsmilitia]

I'm sure you could find a niche market for your chicken manure pour-over. Market it as a counter-cultural cure all

[@ErdalGoktas-fh5fe]

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[@Syria72662]

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[@wijpke]

Nice video but I would use a cast iron pot to concentrate the nitrate from chicken pooh

[@saintofchelseathomascarlyl5713]

nice i like how you think dude

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[@chancebutler6472]

tyvm

[@blacklabel666]

just imagine that smell!

[@kingcanada2588]

Alternate title how to make dirty bomb out of rocket fuel

[@metou3072]

Apparently this guy doesn't know the difference between dirt and crap

[@dire_prism]

Animal nitrate in mind

[@isabutchers5591]

what is the best source of dirt? floodplains? oh nevermind, its poop :(

[@satyamkumarjha1166]

nicee bro why re u hidden

[@WheelerScientific]

What?

[@satyamkumarjha1166]

@@WheelerScientific You have the superpower to change the poop into fuel with KOH.

[@jhyland87]

Total shit.... Subscribed!

[@alish5417]

No millinia 250 to maximum 400 years

[@christopherbegley8755]

After opening a wormhole from God knows where, I have been careful to not mix things, but I'm slowly getting my nerve to learn proper chemistry and alchemy, been almost 47,48 years and still shaking, regrets the way I treated those advanced life forms, but why they wanna shoot me with that 1 jewel Lazer, that wasn't pleasant, but anyways flushing their universe was probly a good reason they were hostile, but mabe I can go back to before that event and make amends, praise Yahweh Elohim hallelujah 🙌

[@saintofchelseathomascarlyl5713]

teach me your ways rabbi

[@SwampMonster1]

It always bothers me in YT chemistry videos that you don’t cover the vessel when boiling water, everyone (except chemists apparently) knows that you use less energy and save time just simply covering the vessel.

[@chemistryofquestionablequa6252]

It's because he's trying to boil off the water, and covering it would prevent that.

[@siddharth-wy2kp]

Noice

[@Christian-lg8fg]

Great video! Now I just need to invest in some chickens along with my crypto, and I can really go to the moon xD

[@alish5417]

I have more sulfur than you ,i got from ph stabilizer ,search for ph stabilizer based on sulfur ,if you want to make h2so4 from sulfur ,but bubble it in hydrogen peroxide the more concentrated the better .

[@trololooface2180]

The best and easy way tho make nitric acid is birkeland eyde reactor

[@WheelerScientific]

The purpose was not to show the best way but to show that it can be done this way.

[@trololooface2180]

@@WheelerScientific yes is true

[@trololooface2180]

@@WheelerScientific i really love chemistry videos but the only problem I'm under 18 so I can't buy the stuff...

[@WheelerScientific]

My favorite thing about chemistry is if you go back far enough in the synthesis of anything you can make it, provided proper time, knowledge and equipment.

[@geeljireoomaar6140]

I not do agree bro. It is an energy intensive

[@phonotical]

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[@WheelerScientific]

I don't know how to respond to this, Waffles?

[@phonotical]

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[@p12psicop]

Why did you start the video with 2 minutes of you massaging a bag of chicken shit? This is supposed to be about dirt. It's in the title. A paper towel? Really?

[@WheelerScientific]

Wait till he find out how dirt is made… No clue about the towel comment, it was a demo. Yes, really, it was a fun project too.

[@p12psicop]

@@WheelerScientific Again, why the 2 minutes of massaging a bag of shit though? Dirt isn't pure manure. Dirt has sand and clay in it along with organics and contaminants. Just use a coffee filter. It's easier and cleaner.

[@WheelerScientific]

Because that what I chose todo while taking. No clue why that would be a problem. It’s called a catchy title, it’s how you get views on KZbin, it worked didn’t it.

[@p12psicop]

@@WheelerScientific Your choice exhibits poor taste. Your title is misleading. Good content providers get views based on quality, not click-bait titles. Those are for losers.

[@WheelerScientific]

It’s not click bait and and it’s good content… so I really don’t see your point. Just because it doesn’t fit your definition of dirt doesn’t mean it’s wrong.

[@NabeelozairNabeelozair]

Waste of time