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Hello! I’m new to this forum and I’ve been looking around for the right spot to post this. My apologies if it still ended up in the wrong place...
When it comes to chemistry I’m pretty new about pretty much everything. While using some copper plates in a diorama and using fertilizer (containing ammonium nitrate) as snow I have observed a few blue spots on the fertilizer (I had to sprinkle the area with water so the “snow” would stick, so automatically a small amount of fertilizer got dissolved in the process).
As I said, I am a complete newbie about anything chemistry related, but I tried to find out what that blue stuff was. Ended up separating the ammonium nitrate from all the impurities that are added in the fertilizer and I placed a few droplets of dissolved nitrate on a small plate of copper. Lo and behold, it started turning blue. After a session of googling I ended up with the blue stuff being described as Tetraamminecopper(II) Nitrate. However the article described the ammonium nitrate as “molten”.
Now, a molten nitrate basically means simply dissolving it in water, dissolving and also boiling it or something completely different? If what I have obtained is nothing harmful I’ll proceed to use it as a water pigment in future dioramas, however I do not know one bit of what happened for me is that Tetraaminecopper thing, as I read that it is a shock sensitive. I’m not too fond of placing anything explosive in miniature scenes I may end up selling.
Thank you for reading.
P.S. if the discussion falls into the category of “illegal substance synthesis” or similar feel free to delete it, I do not want to cause any inconveniences.
When it comes to chemistry I’m pretty new about pretty much everything. While using some copper plates in a diorama and using fertilizer (containing ammonium nitrate) as snow I have observed a few blue spots on the fertilizer (I had to sprinkle the area with water so the “snow” would stick, so automatically a small amount of fertilizer got dissolved in the process).
As I said, I am a complete newbie about anything chemistry related, but I tried to find out what that blue stuff was. Ended up separating the ammonium nitrate from all the impurities that are added in the fertilizer and I placed a few droplets of dissolved nitrate on a small plate of copper. Lo and behold, it started turning blue. After a session of googling I ended up with the blue stuff being described as Tetraamminecopper(II) Nitrate. However the article described the ammonium nitrate as “molten”.
Now, a molten nitrate basically means simply dissolving it in water, dissolving and also boiling it or something completely different? If what I have obtained is nothing harmful I’ll proceed to use it as a water pigment in future dioramas, however I do not know one bit of what happened for me is that Tetraaminecopper thing, as I read that it is a shock sensitive. I’m not too fond of placing anything explosive in miniature scenes I may end up selling.
Thank you for reading.
P.S. if the discussion falls into the category of “illegal substance synthesis” or similar feel free to delete it, I do not want to cause any inconveniences.