Turning Wood into Nitric Acid

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You might do better with a hardwood like oak. I'd suspect that pine and birch would have less potassium in it. I may be wrong though.

Idk why you spent the first 1/3 of the video explaining how to burn wood and gather ash.

100% of people know how to make ash

Theres no potassium nitrate in pot ash.
Zero.

Wood ash has next to no nitrates in it! But what it IS useful for is the conversion of mixed-nitrates from fermented urine concentrates to potassium nitrate, due to the potassium oxide (and thus hydroxide) fraction of wood ash. That was one of the traditional routes to making KNO3 from "night soil"..

The type of wood will determine the potash yeild .. however you will also be making Lye..sodium hydroxide as a byroduct when crystalising the solution..
hard woods are the best to use.

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You brought burning wood inside to continue burning, thus releasing carbon monoxide into your house, why?

how does one define "pure" wood

Preface: I’ve never taken a chemistry class in my life
I have multiple jars of potash solution. Some of them are orange while others are clear/tinted yellow. I added salt to one of the darker jars, and the color lightened up significantly. There is also a white semi solid material at the bottom (presumably the salt) Issue is, I have no idea what I actually made. Does anyone know what may have happened?

Why not powder the leftover charcoals to extract 100% of the soluble contents?

I made nitric acid with Tesla coil

Imagine if sinko knew this from ep 1

good job bro cool project

i didnt fully watch but if you wantet ash you should use dead bark or small sticks and have it well oxygenatet im prety sure you had more charchoal in that thing than ash....

He sounds like that one of the seven dwarfs I locked in the fridge the other day, who was ranting like a fishwife.

You should try leaf in rainy days as the rainy weather contain more nitrate around the year round.

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you missed perfectly good chance to store ashes in urn instead of creatine jars 😂 love the channel♥️

A point chisel next time

Bushcraft tip. Shave a featherstick next time or two. Chemistry reminder, greater surface area burns faster, easier! Don't feel bad, your chemistry knowledge beats my bushcraft smarts hands down! Would love to know more chemistry from you. So keep the videos going! Am new here and LOVE it here. Subscribed!

I forgot to say that I am a new subscriber here and am very pleased with your very complex machinations. This type of process will be good for when society collapses or the central scrutinizers protect us from ourselves and stop us from buying any chemicals....

So nobody else thinks this is wizardry, okay 😒

tylko brzoza ma dużo potasu . Następnie dodać mocznika i roztwór pozostawić na powietrzu aż wyschnie i można extrachować Azotan potasu. tak przynajmniej otrzymywano dawniej składnik do prochu czarnego :)

"Wood (pure)"
:D

the intro music. PTSD

Very underrated channel

I just go and collect ash from Power plant.

now try to get it from bird droppings. You'll get much higher yield.

Bro sacrificed his grandma for us mad respect👍🏿😩😩☝🏿🐐🐐🐐🤌🏿🤌🏿🤌🏿🫡🫡🫡

I know this is a bit late, but that axe is a chopping axe. If you used a splitting maul it would be a lot easier

love how you go though all of the miss steps and issues. Makes watching the video fun.

Ur so talktive

Why ur talking

That chisel is too sharp and thin to split logs

You do not know how to split wood mi-guy

The fun fact is, that from human ashes making Nitric acid may be possible.

I love seeing smart people do manual labour my Dutch buddy who earns triple digits nothing like me I'm just lowly peasant working with my hands compared to him putting on ten items of pvc to turn on a power tool always warms my heart 🎉😂

Oh my God just electrify some copper and bubble the fumes through distilled water! This is far too much work!

6 kg of wood is just so small, I burn almoust 2 cubic metres of wood over a winter. So i get A few dozen kilos of ash, so in teory I could get over a kilo of nitric acid from wood in a winter.

Ghar me balb nahi h kya

Wood ash is around 6%-10% potassium depending on species. To make potassium nitrate historically it was leashed with composted manure from barnyards. The French had a law that allowed the crown to "mine barnyards" for it to make black powder.

Might i suggest u use a coring tip and drill (what u use to make door knob ir dead bolt holes to prep your logs.

why is no one talking abt him drying a literal explosive in the oven???

don't wanna contaminate the wood while using the axe.

To obtain sufficient KNO3 concentration, it is necessary to produce more to obtain a KNO3 solution which is then crystallized because KNO3 and H2SO4 crystals are capable of producing concentrated nitric acid.

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