Live in Proctorville, OHIO, live 45 minutes from you guess it, NITRO, WV, working for Rhone-Poulak as a contractor we removed the remnants of the WWII Nitro plant in Institute, WV.
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Danger: Any item that is capped/sealed and a source of energy is applied will have a phase change(behavior), some for the good and some for the bad. You have seen lately the Dry-Ice explosions in LA. simple examples of expanding molecules. Now everyone here has heated a brake drum, with the thought of the gas tank near by, old asbestos fibers, cut off wheels with sparks flying every where, the list goes on and on, we try to be safe. Comparing the chemical composition of Nitro and making the reference to the combination is a stretch. I have found that A shocks used (maybe) glycerin and most V8 shocks used castor oil, everything is open to discussion and documentation.
Finally get to use my Chemistry Class:
Nito
The industrial manufacturing process often uses a nearly 1:1 mixture of concentrated sulfuric acid and concentrated nitric acid. This can be produced by mixing white fuming nitric acid—a quite expensive pure nitric acid in which the oxides of nitrogen have been removed, as opposed to red fuming nitric acid, which contains nitrogen oxides—and concentrated sulfuric acid. More often, this mixture is attained by the cheaper method of mixing fuming sulfuric acid, also known as oleum—sulfuric acid containing excess sulfur trioxide—and azeotropic nitric acid (consisting of about 70 percent nitric acid, with the rest being water).
The sulfuric acid produces protonated nitric acid species, which are attacked by glycerin's nucleophilic oxygen atoms. The nitro group is thus added as an ester C-O-NO2 and water is produced. This is different from an aromatic nitration reaction in which nitronium ions are the active species in an electrophilic attack on the molecule's ring system.
The addition of glycerin results in an exothermic reaction (i.e., heat is produced), as usual for mixed-acid nitrations. However, if the mixture becomes too hot, it results in "runaway", a state of accelerated nitration accompanied by the destructive oxidation of organic materials by the hot nitric acid and the release of poisonous nitrogen dioxide gas at high risk of an explosion. Thus, the glycerin mixture is added slowly to the reaction vessel containing the mixed acid (not acid to glycerin). The nitrator is cooled with cold water or some other coolant mixture and maintained throughout the glycerin addition at about 22 °C (72 °F), much below which the esterification occurs too slowly to be useful. The nitrator vessel, often constructed of iron or lead and generally stirred with compressed air, has an emergency trap door at its base, which hangs over a large pool of very cold water and into which the whole reaction mixture (called the charge) can be dumped to prevent an explosion, a process referred to as drowning. If the temperature of the charge exceeds about 30 °C (86 °F) (actual value varying by country) or brown fumes are seen in the nitrator's vent, then it is immediately drowned
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Glycerol (or glycerine, glycerin) is a simple polyol (sugar alcohol) compound. It is a colorless, odorless, viscous liquid that is widely used in pharmaceutical formulations.
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Now that I am on every watch list by government, are we having fun, just show us the tooling that is used for arm removal, I think that is all Rogeroadster asked at the thread start, don't even remember if he was going to do it, just how it was done, everyone have a SAFE day, going for a drive in the 34 on the last 70 degree day for a while
