Making Acids

goldsilverpro · Dec 25, 2010

I didn't read this but maybe there's some value in it. Someone linked it on another forum.

https://encrypted.google.com/books?id=YSgDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA60&dq=%22nitric+acid%22+home+chemist&lr=&num=100&as_brr=1&ei=OTLXS-0CjtbMBKun0IoJ&cd=1#v=onepage&q=%22nitric%20acid%22%20home%20chemist&f=false

Palladium · Dec 25, 2010

I love reading thoses old articles like that and seeing just how much life as we know it has changed.

goldsilverpro · Dec 25, 2010

On that same forum, james122964 just wrote this up. He also wrote additional info later in the thread. I hope he doesn't mind my linking to it. If there is a problem, James, let me know.

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MicronGold/message/15316

rusty · Dec 25, 2010

Same article, saved jpg images.

rusty · Dec 25, 2010

The amateur chemist can buy hydrochloric acid cheaper than he can make it, he can produce a small quantity of it experimentally to satisfy his own curiosity. Dissolve common salt in a small quantity of sulphuric acid diluted to about half its strength with water. The gas driven off when this mixture is heated is hydrochloric acid gas. If this is bubbled through water, hydrochloric acid will result.