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| | Megalomania's Method of Making Ammonium Nitrate |
 | | Ammonium hydroxide, the main ingredient, can be obtained in dilute solution as a laundry substance or as a window cleaner, it is ammonia. |
 | | The ammonium nitrate is formed by a simple double displacement reaction when the ammonium ion, NH +, replaces the H+ ion from the nitric acid and bonds to the remaining nitrate ion, NO, then the H+ ion forms water from the hydroxide ion, OH-, left by the ammonium ion. |
 | | Slowly add ammonium hydroxide from a beaker to the Erlenmeyer flask while stirring by swirling the flask occasionally until the mixture is alkaline to litmus paper. |
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