-- Posted by knightmedia on 2:15 am on Mar. 26, 2002 Anyone here know how to make nitric acid if one needs it for some reason and doesn't want to break into a school laboratory to get it? The fuming red variety would be best, but any synthesis would be appreciated. -Jake -- Posted by johnny 99 on 2:56 am on Mar. 26, 2002 Look in the improvised munitions manual in the archives. -- Posted by JaMeZz34 on 8:39 am on Mar. 26, 2002 is it true that if you dip sum cotton wool into nitric acid, let it dry, then put it into sulphuric. its as good as gunpowder????? Cheers -- Posted by Hergor on 10:24 am on Mar. 26, 2002 today's regular gunpowder is double-based nitrocellulose. with the usual method of mixing nitric acid and sulphuric acid and adding cotton you'll get single-based nitrocellulose which was early gunpowder. -- Posted by xenonalieninfo on 10:25 pm on Mar. 27, 2002 nitrogen  and  perixdied  (OH) -- Posted by JaMeZz34 on 6:14 am on Mar. 29, 2002 but, would it work fine??? what kind of detonation wud u use?? Cheers -- Posted by JaMeZz34 on 5:38 pm on April 10, 2002 can u make nitric acid by : sulfuric + KNO3 what r the ratios??? Cheers -- Posted by paladinpress on 8:02 pm on April 10, 2002 A density of up to 1.544 can be reached with 12.7% dissolved nitrogen dioxide in fuming nitric acid. Nitric acid forms an azeotrope with water at 68%, it this has a bp of 120.5 °C (yes, this bp is higher than either water or the acid boils at pure). -- Posted by TNP on 10:27 pm on April 10, 2002 WHAT ARE THE RATIOS (SULFURIC : KNO3) ????????????? I'VE USED 1:2 (S:KNO3) RATIO AND IT DIDN'T MAKE RED NITRIC ACID. WHAT'S HAPPEN???     http://www.bombshock.com