(Reupload) Make Potassium Nitrate and Sodium Nitrate at Home Using Calcium Nitrate

In this video we make Potassium Nitrate and Sodium Nitrate using the easily obtained Calcium Nitrate.
Potassium nitrates and sodium nitrates are sought after for their uses in... umm.. fertilizer.... as well as for making alternative aqua regia. I've previously shown how to make them from ammonium nitrate, but ammonium nitrate is getting harder and harder to find as stricter regulations are enacted. Fortunately it seems calcium nitrate is widely available as fertilizer and has much less restrictions. I could easily buy it online from various e-commerce vendors.
Calcium nitrate by itself is usable to make nitric acid directly, but potassium nitrate or sodium nitrate themselves are specifically desired, then it can be converted. To do so, Calcium nitrate is first identified by looking at its NPK value to determine the exact form and the molar nitrate equivalent is found. That quantity is then reacted with equivalent amount of alkali, like potassium hydroxide or sodium carbonate, and then filtered. The filtrate contains the corresponding alkali nitrate that can then be dried or crystalized.
For potassium nitrate specifically. Potassium chloride may be reacted with calcium nitrate and the solution heated until dissolved. Then filtered and allowed to cool and the potassium nitrate directly crystalizes out. This is filtered and retained. Although it is rather impure and needs to be recrystallized again for best purity.
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Wouldn't it be possible to use this exact same procedure, just substituting baker's ammonia in stead of the Na/K alkalis/carbonates?

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Thanks for re uploading, the knowledge of creating fertiliser should available to all. 😊

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I used this process with sodium carbonate and calcium ammonium nitrate and was able to get 147g (~58% yield). Very useful video indeed for some great fertilizer

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Pondering the Bosch-Haber process to ammonia. Obviously not a sensible amateur method, but neat.

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I’m glad I’m not young. This world is too restrictive and authoritarian. When I got my drivers license 35 years ago, I remember driving to Central Hardware to look at chemicals and power tools. One thing I remembered most was the 50 pound bags of 99% ammonium nitrate for like $15! I wish I pounced on it. But at that time I could buy sodium nitrate at nurseries for $8 a 5 pound bag and potassium nitrate as a stump remover. I never imagined nitrates not being OTC. 🤦‍♂️

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Another enjoyable video. Hope it stays monetized

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Man, can't wait to make some fertilizer with some good old charcoal filler. It works great!

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There are versions of Stump remover being 100% potassium nitrate. Sodium nitrate can be bought from food bulk franchise sources, as it is used in pickling and curing.

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I once had a plan (based on one of your early videos) to make potassium permanganate entirely out of garbage (not even household chemicals).... potassium nitrate was the thing that called a halt on my plan... the traditional method employing heaps of manure and buckets of stale urine just didn't seem that appealing.:)

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In Germany home growing "Tomatoes" is now legal, so we need the fertilizer. 😇

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I actually do want to use it for plant fertilizer. 🥰

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Top of the list!

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My medicinal herb garden require absolutely contaminant free fertilizers in very specific ratios. Thus I have no other option than making 99.99% pure base products and mixing myself. Otherwise the amount of bio-active ingredients in my Atropa Belladonna, Hyoscyamus Niger and Datura Stramonium will vary considerably, which could obviously be fatal. (Watched the whole video again out of spite for YT's brain damage!)

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My, uh, plants are excited.

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Just buy it from Poland. In Poland EU law doesn't exist.

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I love pyro-fertilizers.

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The people love fertilizers. Fertilizer = life. Except when fertilizer = stump remover.

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I'll watch it again knowing it's just a standard double displacement reaction. But I use it to fertilize my bbg grill. But I am curious about the timing of these new rules. There has been nothing in the headlines lately and yt on its own doesn't care.

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How easy is to process Calcium ammonium nitrate into Nitric acid? I assume the ammonia in HCl would make Ammonia chloride thus reducing the Nitric acid yield. It hard to get potassium nitrate or Magnesium nitrate.