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A Miniature Ostwald Reactor to Make Nitric Acid https://hackaday.com/2025/07/03/a-miniature-ostwald-reactor-to-make-nitric-acid/ #chemistryhacks #Ostwaldprocess #nitricacid #ammonia

A Miniature Ostwald Reactor to Make Nitric Acid - Modern fertilizer manufacturing uses the Haber-Bosch and Ostwald processes to fix... - https://hackaday.com/2025/07/03/a-miniature-ostwald-reactor-to-make-nitric-acid/ #chemistryhacks #ostwaldprocess #nitricacid #ammonia

Benchtop Haber-Bosch Makes Ammonia at Home - Humans weren’t the first organisms on this planet to figure out how to turn the ab... - https://hackaday.com/2025/03/21/benchtop-haber-bosch-makes-ammonia-at-home/ #chemistryhacks #sulfuricacid #haber-bosch #galssware #catalyst #ammonia #zinc #lab

How to Refrigerate With Urine - It’s often said that the best science experiments are the ones which do not requir... - https://hackaday.com/2024/01/09/how-to-refrigerate-with-urine/ #ammoniumnitrate #chemistryhacks #refrigeration #ammonia

William Blake Was Etching Copper in 1790 - You may know William Blake as a poet, or even as #38 in the BBC’s 2002 poll of the... - https://hackaday.com/2023/10/30/william-blake-was-etching-copper-in-1790/ #illuminatedbooks #stoppingvarnish #chemistryhacks #williamblake #nitricacid #etching #copper

Lighting Up with Chemistry, 1823-Style - With our mass-produced butane lighters and matches made in the billions, fire is n... - https://hackaday.com/2023/07/19/lighting-up-with-chemistry-1823-style/ #chemistryhacks #sulfuricacid #catalyst #hydrogen #platinum #history #lighter #fire

Wipe On, Wipe Off: Make Your Own Rain Repellent - Once upon a time, we drove an old six-volt VW Beetle. One sad day, the wiper motor... - https://hackaday.com/2023/01/09/wipe-on-wipe-off-make-your-own-rain-repellent/ #chemistryhacks #sulfuricacid #dimethicone #isopropyl #ethanol #how-to #rain-x

Recovering Metal From Waste - Refining precious metals is not as simple as polishing rocks that have been dug out of the ground.... - https://hackaday.com/2020/11/30/recovering-metal-from-waste/ #thermaldecomposition #chemistryhacks #coppernitrate #sulfuricacid #nitricacid #chemistry #recovery #copper #metal #waste

Anodize Aluminum Easily - We’ve all seen brightly-colored pieces of aluminum and can identify them as anodized. But what doe... more: https://hackaday.com/2019/02/28/anodize-aluminum-easily/ #chemistryhacks #draincleaner #sulfuricacid #anodising #anodizing #aluminum #lye