US47562A - Improvement in the preparation of nitrate of potassa - Google Patents
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- KWYUFKZDYYNOTN-UHFFFAOYSA-M potassium hydroxide Chemical compound [OH-].[K+] KWYUFKZDYYNOTN-UHFFFAOYSA-M 0.000 title description 16
- NHNBFGGVMKEFGY-UHFFFAOYSA-N nitrate Chemical compound [O-][N+]([O-])=O NHNBFGGVMKEFGY-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 title description 10
- 235000002918 Fraxinus excelsior Nutrition 0.000 description 10
- 239000002956 ash Substances 0.000 description 10
- GRYLNZFGIOXLOG-UHFFFAOYSA-N nitric acid Chemical compound O[N+]([O-])=O GRYLNZFGIOXLOG-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 8
- XLYOFNOQVPJJNP-UHFFFAOYSA-N water Substances O XLYOFNOQVPJJNP-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 6
- 235000008733 Citrus aurantifolia Nutrition 0.000 description 4
- FGIUAXJPYTZDNR-UHFFFAOYSA-N Potassium nitrate Chemical compound [K+].[O-][N+]([O-])=O FGIUAXJPYTZDNR-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 4
- 235000015450 Tilia cordata Nutrition 0.000 description 4
- 235000011941 Tilia x europaea Nutrition 0.000 description 4
- 239000002253 acid Substances 0.000 description 4
- VEXZGXHMUGYJMC-UHFFFAOYSA-M chloride anion Chemical compound [Cl-] VEXZGXHMUGYJMC-UHFFFAOYSA-M 0.000 description 4
- RYGMFSIKBFXOCR-UHFFFAOYSA-N copper Chemical compound [Cu] RYGMFSIKBFXOCR-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 4
- 229910052802 copper Inorganic materials 0.000 description 4
- 239000010949 copper Substances 0.000 description 4
- 239000004571 lime Substances 0.000 description 4
- 229940072033 potash Drugs 0.000 description 4
- 235000015320 potassium carbonate Nutrition 0.000 description 4
- BWHMMNNQKKPAPP-UHFFFAOYSA-L potassium carbonate Substances [K+].[K+].[O-]C([O-])=O BWHMMNNQKKPAPP-UHFFFAOYSA-L 0.000 description 4
- KEAYESYHFKHZAL-UHFFFAOYSA-N sodium Chemical compound [Na] KEAYESYHFKHZAL-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 4
- 229910052708 sodium Inorganic materials 0.000 description 4
- 239000011734 sodium Substances 0.000 description 4
- 239000002023 wood Substances 0.000 description 4
- 230000036536 Cave Effects 0.000 description 2
- 230000015572 biosynthetic process Effects 0.000 description 2
- 235000019994 cava Nutrition 0.000 description 2
- 238000006243 chemical reaction Methods 0.000 description 2
- 238000010790 dilution Methods 0.000 description 2
- 238000005755 formation reaction Methods 0.000 description 2
- 230000000266 injurious Effects 0.000 description 2
- 238000004519 manufacturing process Methods 0.000 description 2
- 238000000034 method Methods 0.000 description 2
- 239000012452 mother liquor Substances 0.000 description 2
- 235000010333 potassium nitrate Nutrition 0.000 description 2
- 238000000746 purification Methods 0.000 description 2
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- the lixivium must now be raised by concentration to 24 Baums hydrometer, and while hot from the copper bath be immediately transferred from the copper vats to vats made or lined entirely with lead. The heated lixivium thus transferred must remain in the vat until perfectly cold.
- V canted liquor must now be treated with commercial nitric acid, in small quantity, thus previously prepared, namely: Add to nitric acid Water from the river, or rain-water caught at not less than forty miles from the ocean, to avoid chloride of sodium; add a quantity of this water to reduce the acid to 19,.or near that density, Baume. At this point arrest dilution instantly and proceed, after thorough commixture, to pass the nitric acid through a leaden tube or gutter into the lixiviurn, testing with litmus to slight acid reaction, then cease. A vast cloud of crystals immediately begins to fall, and will continue, if the case is treated properly, for some time. These crystals may he left after decanting and the residue of the mother-liquor slightly evaporated until nearly all the liquor produces nearly perfectly pure nitrate of potassa.
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Description
UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
HENRY S. OSBORN, OF BELVIDERE, NEW JERSEY.
IMPROVEMENT IN THE PREPARATION OF NITRATE OF POTASSA.
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 47,562, dated May 2, 1865.
To aZZ whom it may concern.-
Be it known that I, HENRY S. OSBORN, of Belvidere, in the county of Warren, in the State of New Jersey, have discovered a new and Improved Mode of Forming Perfectly Pure Nitrate of Potassa; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exactdescription thereof, reference being had to the ac companying sample of the composition.
The nature of my discovery consists in preparing the lixivium of wood ashes that nitric acid of a certain density will take up only that potassa as its base (without combining to an injurious degree with either the lime or chloride of sodium) which was in the ashes and may also be in the lixivium to a degree.
To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my discovery I will proceed to describe the process.
I lixiviate the ashes with river or rainwater always at a temperature below 60 Fahrenheit. This dissolves the potassa as a base'ot' the nitrate without much lime, and the lixivium is to a degree free. The lixivium must now be raised by concentration to 24 Baums hydrometer, and while hot from the copper bath be immediately transferred from the copper vats to vats made or lined entirely with lead. The heated lixivium thus transferred must remain in the vat until perfectly cold. Upon testing it will now be found that V canted liquor must now be treated with commercial nitric acid, in small quantity, thus previously prepared, namely: Add to nitric acid Water from the river, or rain-water caught at not less than forty miles from the ocean, to avoid chloride of sodium; add a quantity of this water to reduce the acid to 19,.or near that density, Baume. At this point arrest dilution instantly and proceed, after thorough commixture, to pass the nitric acid through a leaden tube or gutter into the lixiviurn, testing with litmus to slight acid reaction, then cease. A vast cloud of crystals immediately begins to fall, and will continue, if the case is treated properly, for some time. These crystals may he left after decanting and the residue of the mother-liquor slightly evaporated until nearly all the liquor produces nearly perfectly pure nitrate of potassa.
This plan of forming nitrate of potassa your petitioner believes to be in'comparably above the plan of forming from potash of commerce, as it is pure immediately after it is taken from the lixivium, a result which has never been arrived at yet by purification from caves, by formation from the nitrified residium and efilorescence of foundations, or from the potash of commerce, or by any other attempt uprn ashes, if it ever has been made.
What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-
The manufacture of nitrate of potash from the lixivium of wood ashes, in the manner substantially as described.
H. S. OSBORN. \Vitnesses.
CHAS. E. PARKER, A. S. DEICHMAN.
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