Found SN and purified it

[prototypian]

A local, easy to shop at, store for hunting supplies had SN as a curing salt for making cured meats like beef jerky. I won't say where I am or where the store is but I was able to buy it easily. I felt good purchasing it and having the clerk just ask me if I was part of their rewards program. I have it now and a gun. Just thinking about direction.

 

[LaVieEnRose]

It may not be pure enough.

 

[heydude56]

If it's curing salt it might not be pure

 

[Macedonian1987]

Usually curing salts have just 6% of SN in them and you need your SN to be at least 95% pure.

 

[prototypian]

I did four rectyatalizations from hot water rapidly cooled with an ice bath filtering the crystals that fell out of solution first then repeating. The Mel temp (melting temperature) started out at 470 c as a mixture of sodium chloride, nitrate and nitrite salts. With each recrystalization the temperature fell for the Mel temp of the resulting crystals until I got down to 275 for the melt temperature. That's close to the temp for pure at 271 c. I'm confident I have pretty pure crystals. The color also changed from pinkish to an off yellow white color which matches the reports. I feel I have the pure stuff now.

 

[RimeOfTheAncient]

Anyway you would make a full guide? This could be the main way getting SN going forwards with all the bans. Also will you test it with anything more then a melting point test?