In this video we make ammonia gas and dissolve it water from various chemicals easily accessible to the amateur. The first method is merely boiling household ammonia solution that's domestically available from the local supermarket. The ammonia boiled out is lead into cold water where it can be dissolved. While this did work the yield was quite low at around 2.5g per 100mL of household ammonia solution. From the 600mL of ammonia solution used only about 15g was obtained. The second method was to revisit the classic method to produce sodium nitrate from ammonium nitrate and sodium hydroxide by dissolving them both separately in water and then mixing them together and trying to boil out the ammonia. This worked terribly and i got almost no yield at all. The third method that seemed to work the best was to react urea and sodium hydroxide in water. This reaction was well-behaved, steady and easily performed with domestically available chemicals. Starting from 200mL water, 90g urea and 120g sodium hydroxide, about 38.6g of ammonia was obtained. I intend to use the ammonia in a future project to make nitric acid. Donate to NurdRage! Through Patreon (preferred): https://www.patreon.com/NurdRage Glassware generously provided by http://www.alchemylabsupply.com/ Use the discount code "nurdrage" for a 5% discount. Twitter: https://twitter.com/NurdRage Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/NurdRage/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nurdrageyoutube/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-jJ5QF-EVE

In this video, we make isopropyl nitrite without using sodium nitrite. Typically, amateur chemists use sodium nitrite, hydrochloric acid, and isopropyl alcohol for this process, but sodium nitrite is becoming harder to obtain. This sodium nitrite-free pathway goes through nitrosylsulfuric acid which can be made using more easily obtained fuming nitric acid and sulfur dioxide. To make fuming nitric acid from you can use this video: https://youtu.be/88gbfCnrV8o How to make sulfur dioxide: https://youtu.be/2AFKlLSwUZ4 To begin, we dry 400mL of 99% isopropyl alcohol using molecular sieves 3A (that itself was previously dried at 200 Celsius). In a separate flask, we mix 63g of fuming nitric acid with 150mL of glacial acetic acid, keeping the mixture cool in an ice bath. To make glacial acetic acid, i refer you to Nile Red: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iG_qnkF08Y or Amateur chemistry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOb4R5_LK-I Meanwhile, a sulfur dioxide is injected from a sulfur dioxide generator into our nitric acid mixture forming nitrosylsulfuric acid. After the reaction, the nitrosylsulfuric acid precipitates out. It's filtered and i got a Yield of 117g or 91%. Due to its instability, it must be used promptly. It's slowly combined with chilled isopropanol, creating isopropyl nitrite. Careful addition and temperature control are crucial to prevent decomposition. After the reaction, we add ice and make up the volume to 1L to separate the isopropyl nitrite. A separatory funnel is used to recover the lighter organic phase of isopropyl nitrite. The final yield is 56g or about 63% based on nitric acid, with an adjusted yield of 69% based on nitrosylsulfuric acid quantity. While this method may not match the ease of sodium nitrite-based processes, it serves as a valuable alternative for those facing sodium nitrite availability challenges. Donate to NurdRage! Through Patreon (preferred): https://www.patreon.com/NurdRage Through Youtube Memberships: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIgKGGJkt1MrNmhq3vRibYA/join Glassware generously provided by http://www.alchemylabsupply.com/ Use the discount code "nurdrage" for a 5% discount. Twitter: https://twitter.com/NurdRage Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/NurdRage/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nurdrageyoutube/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT1Bylf1_00

In this video we revisit making silver nitrate by the classic reaction of silver and nitric acid. Related videos: The original video of making silver nitrate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6hPgGV_qAg Very simple silver photography: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e0-AbwBDYM Silver conductive ink: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBlqPS8boLI Silver mirrors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUX_cpFWNso Donate to NurdRage! Through Patreon (preferred): https://www.patreon.com/NurdRage Glassware generously provided by http://www.alchemylabsupply.com/ Use the discount code "nurdrage" for a 5% discount. Social media links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/NurdRage Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nurdrageyoutube/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8v2zbUYBgw

In this video we make dimethyl dioxane from propylene glycol based antifreeze. Donate to NurdRage! Through Patreon (preferred): https://www.patreon.com/NurdRage Through Bitcoin: 1NurdRAge7PNR4ULrbrpcYvc9RC4LDp9pS Glassware generously provided by http://www.alchemylabsupply.com/ Use the discount code "nurdrage" for a 5% discount. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Soc4uR6Zpc4