Google ''urea nitrate'', a very popular for non fertilizer use in certain areas of the world.
 
Urea Nitrate can be used instead of Ammonium Nitrate but you can't use straight Urea. I believe that focusing on the nitrogen component is a red herring. Urea Nitrate has more oxygen and hydrogen in each molecule compared to Urea. Any explosion is basically an extremely fast exothermic reaction creating large amounts of heat and pressure, so, I would expect the presence of more O and H would enhance the 'explosive' properties.
 
How is it that Hydrogen and Oxygen are two of the most flammable gasses on the planet, yet when combined create the most common means of putting out a fire, and is even the very basis of life itself?
 
Some would say I'm splitting hairs, but I'm really
not. Oxygen doesn't burn. I understand the point
you're making, but oxygen doesn't burn.
 
if i remember they use diesel fuel with the ammonium nitrate. the amonium nitrate is the oxidizer and the diesel is the fuel for the reaction. korse its been several decades since i had chemistry in skool.
 
Oxygen does not burn but is required for burning to take place. The air we breath is usually 20 to 21% oxygen. High concentrations of oxygen slow for hotter fires do to not being limited to 20%.
 
(quoted from post at 07:41:49 06/26/17) Why is it that you can make ammonium nitrate go bang but urea won't. Both are nitrogen.
t is also a rather processed form of ammonium nitrate, not he bag of 34-0-0 from the lawn & garden store that the talking heads on TV might lead you to believe.
 
Not much energy stored in the chemical bonds of urea and can't be released in a cascading reaction. Think if it as a low pressure balloon vs a high pressure gas cylinder.
 
Hot Rods use laughing gas for more HP. The nitrogen in it doesn't burn. They also add more fuel with it. They also use nitromethene which is a complete fuel. I saw a johndeere A pull onetime at a antique tractor pull. He pulled all the way thru.I noticed a very different smell to the exhaust and a louder bark to the noise. Made me wonder. I've got a gallon can of nitromethene that I was going to experiment with in my truck to see how it would run.
What I don't understand is, what is the difference between nitrous oxide that the hotrodders use and the nitrous oxide emissions in our engines that the emissions controls try to prevent.
 
(quoted from post at 13:08:25 06/26/17) Hot Rods use laughing gas for more HP. The nitrogen in it doesn't burn. They also add more fuel with it. They also use nitromethene which is a complete fuel. I saw a johndeere A pull onetime at a antique tractor pull. He pulled all the way thru.I noticed a very different smell to the exhaust and a louder bark to the noise. Made me wonder. I've got a gallon can of nitromethene that I was going to experiment with in my truck to see how it would run.
What I don't understand is, what is the difference between nitrous oxide that the hotrodders use and the nitrous oxide emissions in our engines that the emissions controls try to prevent.
2O vs NO & NO2 is the difference
 
Back in the '70's when I used to run an 1,800 ton aluminum extrusion press, we used to inject nitrogen into some of the dies as the aluminum billets were being forced through them to remove or block oxygen, an impurity that would sometimes cause the aluminum to bubble at extreme temperatures. I forget how hot we used to heat the billets to extrude them, but I remember that they were so hot that they were white in color. Mighty hot. Funny thing is that it would sometimes get to about 130 or so degrees around the press but the nitrogen tanks would have thick buildups of frost and we'd make snowballs and throw them around in 130 degree temperatures. Someone would be doing their thing...POW...a snowball in the back of their head to help cool them of, of course.

Mark
 
Don't put it in your truck . I made the mistake. Nitro requires a steel free system and the nitro with pick up smells off your fuel lines and steel tank and the truck will smell so bad it will make you sick . It is a very bad stink. { your eating your steel lines also.]
 
Sorry to disappoint, but oxygen is NOT required for combustion. Other gases will support combustion. Chlorine and Fluorine are two that come to mind. Both will support combustion.
 
Nitrous oxide as used by hot rodders will supply extra oxygen to the combustion chamber to increase combustion temperatures and pressures. Chemical formula is N2O

Oxides of nitrogen are chemically different from nitrous oxide. They are Nitrogen Oxide (NO) and Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2). These oxides will quickly form Nitric or Nitrous acids in combination with water molecules. These acids are highly corrosive and contribute to photochemical smog.
 

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