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Gold/Mining/Energy : Gold Price Monitor
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To: E. Charters who wrote (82764)3/2/2002 5:02:03 PM
From: Richnorth  Read Replies (2) of 116791
 
<<....These three salts are nitre, iron aluminum sulphate and sodium chloride. Boil them in water and they will make a mixture of nitric and HCl....>>

What were the proportions of each of the three salts in the mixture used to make nitric acid?

Sounds OK in view of the fact that the iron aluminum sulfate (presumably ferric or iron(III) aluminum sulfate) when dissolved in water gives an acid solution due to reaction (hydrolysis) of the iron(III) ion or Fe3+ ion with water. How did you concentrate the solution? By straight boiling down? But in that case you would lose quite a bit of the acids! Any distillation done?

I am still a bit puzzled and a bit skeptical.
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