On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: > Of note: The gas cylinder is blue - indicating nitrous oxide.
Ammonium nitrate is good for something more than fertilizer and bombs. If you heat it to a liquid form and boil the liquid with a magnetic stirrer, the compound breaks down into nitrous oxide and ammonia. You have to be careful when it first begins to boil because it appears that some type of foaming agent is added to the compound and it will overflow your flask. But the foaming quickly subsides and you can collect the gasses through a bath water which dissolves out the ammonia; and, voila, N2O. T
