Nitric acid is used in the production of plastics, dyes, ammonium nitrate for fertilisers and is also used for making explosives including, nitroglycerin.

Residents near the Austin Powder Plant in northern Vinton County, Ohio were allowed to return home Wednesday evening after being ordered to evacuate when a tank of anhydrous nitric acid leaked ...

1 Nitric acid synthesis Nitric acid has been technically produced by the Ostwald process since 1908. This involves the catalytic oxidation of ammonia. The mixture of ammonia and air is passed rapidly ...

Reagents The acid and solid need to be chosen. Use hydrochloric acid to make a chloride, sulfuric acid to make a sulfate, and nitric acid to make a nitrate.

Residents near the Austin Powder Plant in northern Vinton County, Ohio were allowed to return home Wednesday evening after being ordered to evacuate when a tank of anhydrous nitric acid leaked ...