Respect those nitrates in the lab - Journal of Chemical Education

The prudent teacher will use many references, and cross references, when selecting experiments and demonstrations - particularly where nitrates are in...
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The National Transoortation Safetv Board was investigating the November 0; 1973, crash of; Pan Am cargo plane that took the lives of all three crew members. Concentrated nitric acid that spilled onto combustihle material in a wooden shippina box started smokina in 13 minutes. Three minutes later