Nitric

[Barren Realms 007]

ok heres a question .... i have a HUGE amount of compressed nitrogen

is there a way to use this to my benefit in making nitric acid

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that is a different breed of animal and say nope.

You can but it is hopelessly inefficient. its called the birkeland-eyde process, and you could combine O2 and N2 in stoichiometric ratios to use instead of air (making it more efficient) and run a very powerful current through the gas, making NO. the resulting gas further oxidizes into no2 then you bubble it through water which dissolves it to produce hno3, but you will probably have to distill it to get up to %70 because of the solubility curve of no2.

Ok thanks I wasn't sure about that one. 8)

 

[butcher]

I breath 78% Nitrogen and 21% oxygen, all I need to make nitric out of that would be a lightning storm and some rain. but its is much easier using a nitrate salt and acid.