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Laboratory Tips Safety proceedures, test reagents, drilling rubber stoppers, bending glass tubes, etc. Contributed to by chemists.

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Old 2004-01-08, 04:00
BorisB73 BorisB73 is offline
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Default Decomposing Ammonium Nitrate into Nitrous Oxide

NH4NO3 --heat--> 2H20 + N2O

This is what many chemistry books I have read say how nitrous oxide is industrially produced.

It also said that NH4NO3 is used as fertilizer. Is it possible to obtain or make pure NH4NO3?

Is it feasable to heat the substance with plans to inhale?
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Old 2004-01-08, 04:18
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Default Re: Decomposing Ammonium Nitrate into Nitrous Oxide

Ammonium nitrate is easily obtained as fertilizer, but it's best you make sure it is pure as decomposing other fertilizers can produce toxic gasses. It is kind of impractical to decompose amnitrate for inhaling purposes as storage becomes an issue.
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Old 2004-01-08, 04:22
BorisB73 BorisB73 is offline
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Default Re: Decomposing Ammonium Nitrate into Nitrous Oxide

My first intent in this idea would be to locate pure ammonium nitrate.

What is the storage issue?

Say that I heat the NH4NO3 in a flask with a tube coming from the top and inhale the warm gasses from the tube - is this a bad idea?
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Old 2004-01-08, 05:50
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Default Re: Decomposing Ammonium Nitrate into Nitrous Oxide

aren't there easier ways to get NO2?
 
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