Wednesday 5 June 2013

why cant we make rocket candy from ammonium nitrate.

since rocket candy is made from heating sugar with the oxidiser(potassium nitrate), I didnt have potassium nitrate which is most recomended, so I started t make it with ammonium nitrate, I took a pan and dissolved  ammonium nitrate and sugar in it and heated, after a time a black contamination spreaded in thethe water and lots of smoke erupted from the the pan(actually I forgot how violently ammonium nitrate reacts with sugar!) the whole kitchen was engulfed in a white smoke. In the pan there were strange black structures except the r-candy.
like this. :)

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