Potassium nitrate

A. After having viewed the 'Anatomy of a firework' interactive answer the following: What are the different parts that make up a firework? Fireworks have a few different parts such as Potassium Nitrate, Charcoal, and Sulfur and they use different chemical compounds to create three kinds of results: A tremendous "boom" A bright light Heat What is the recipe for black powder? Why do you think Potassium Nitrate, Charcoal, and Sulfur become explosive after they are ground together? Black Powder is a mixture of Potassium Nitrate, Charcoal and Sulfur. The Sulfur and Charcoal act as fuels, and the Potassium Nitrate is an oxidizer. Black powder is used in fireworks because it consists of potassium nitrate (75%), charcoal (15%), and sulfur (10%). Each…

The objective for this lab is to construct a solubility curve for potassium nitrate in water by measuring saturation temperatures for six different solution concentrations. We form a group of four and were assigned to work on series one while the other group work on series two. Throughout the lab, we set a hot bath water temperature at 85 degree celsius which affected how potassium nitrate dissolves in water and changed the saturation temperature. In addition, our group discovered that the mass…

How gunpowder changed warfare How gunpowder was invented is that some scientists in china were experimenting Saltpeter a powerful agent potassium nitrate. It was used in medical compounds for years until a man thought about mixing the potassium agent with sulfur and charcoal, it had a result of a mysterious powder. Some observers said that smoke and fire the scientist’s body parts were burnt and the houses that they were working at burnt down too. The powder was used by the reigning Sung…

Question: Which amount of Sulfur(.25 grams, .5 grams, .75 grams, and 1 gram) creates the closest reaction with fire as the store bought gunpowder in terms of size of flame and the time duration of the flame? Knowledge Probe: The equation for the reaction of our gunpowder is 10Na NO3 + 8C + 3S → 2 Na2 CO3 + 3Na2SO4 + 6CO2 + 5N2. This shows that Sodium Nitrate is reacting with Carbon/Charcoal and Sulfur to form Nitrogen, Carbon Dioxide, Sodium Carbonate, and Sodium Sulfate. In gunpowder, the…

Bam! Bam! Bam! goes the gun of a soldier. Have you ever wondered where gunpowder came from? Gunpowder, as well as silk and paper, are just some of many objects traded along the Silk Road that have an impact on our lives today. To begin with the silk road was a trading system and gunpowder was one of the objects exchange on the silk road.Gunpowder is made out of charcoal but it is also known as black powder. Gunpowder is a explosive chemicals which means it is very dangerous. Back to what I was…

The Thermodynamics of Potassium Nitrate Dissolving in Water Introduction: This experiment focuses on thermodynamics or the study of heat and molecular randomness. It helps illustrate how and why potassium nitrate (KNO3) dissolves in water. When it dissolves, it dissociates into potassium (K+) and nitrate (NO3-) ions. These ions can also recombine into solid potassium nitrate. This reaction can reach a state where concentrations of ions remain constant or Ksp; which stands for the equilibrium…

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Solutions should be the cations of cupric nitrate, ammonium nitrate, zinc nitrate, calcium nitrate, aluminum nitrate, silver nitrate, ferric nitrate, and plumbous nitrate. The other seven solutions should be the anions of sodium hydroxide, sodium carbonate, potassium sulfate, sodium iodide, sodium phosphate, sodium chloride, and sodium chromate. Divide students into groups of two. Provide a bin of paper towels for the students to empty their well plates. Students: Obtain a pair of safety…

amounts of water to determine the minimum amount needed to completely dissolve the salt. The cation test told whether the unknown contained barium, calcium, potassium, sodium, strontium, lithium, copper, or magnesium. Given a chart of the colors that each burn, lit the unknown on fire with a bunsen burner and compared the flame color with the colors in the chart. In order to identify the anion, we needed to perform four anion reactions: chloride, sulfate, nitrate, and carbonate. To identify…

Aim The objective of the experiment is to explore the process of simple analysis techniques and representative sampling in determining soil nutrient levels. Soil samples collected from Flinders Campus were used to determine their pH, salinity, ammonium, nitrate, phosphate, and nitrite levels. Introduction Unless there is a specific problem detected, the most common reason for undertaking soil analysis is to detect the levels of essential nutrients (Guo, 2009). The commonly analysed nutrients in…