If you need sources for, or small quantities of nitic acid or
other chemicals, try your high school or community college.
They always have supplier info and will part with small parcels.
Bob B
I haven't hit the bricks looking for a local chemical supply yet. The last time I did that - looking for large quantities of lye for a home soap-making business - I was treated like the Village Idiot. Many supermarkets sell 'lye' either as it's usual name of caustic soda, or (in America) as Drano.
The pure stuff, industrial grade NaOH comes in 25 kg bags (CDN$ 60)
from the industrial supplies store. When there is a downhole plug
during oil drilling they throw in bags of this stuff to clear it,
same idea as using Drano in your kitchen sink.
Kelvin Mok
@Kelvin_Mok1
G’day; Here some of the old and/or common names for well known
chemicals. I posted this a long time ago, and thought you folk fairly
new to Orchid might like a repeat. But please try and phase out the
old names, like “muriatic acid”.
Alabaster Calcium sulphate
Anhydrite Anhydrous calcium sulphate
Baking soda Sodium bicarbonate
Baryta Barium oxide
Bleach Sodium hypochlorite
Bleaching powder Calcium hypochlorite
Blue vitriol Copper sulphate
Boracic acid Boric acid
Borax Sodium tetraborate
Brimstone sulphur
Calamine Zinc carbonate
Caliche sodium nitrate
Calomel Mercuric chloride
Caustic Potash Potassium hydroxide
Caustic soda Sodium hydroxide
Chile saltpeter Sodium Nitrate/ Sodium Nitrite
Chloride of iron Ferric chloride
Condy's crystals Potassium permanganate
Copperas Ferrous sulphate
Cream of tartar Potassium hydrogen tartrate
Drikold Solid carbon dioxide
Epsom salts Magnesium sulphate
Flowers of sulphur Sulphur in powder form.
Fuller's earth Non plastic clay
Glauber's salt Sodium sulphate
Gypsum Calcium Sulphate
Horn silver Silver chloride
Hypo, photographic Sodium thiosulphate
Ivory black Carbon (from bones)
Kaolin/ China clay Aluminium silicate,
King's Yellow Arsenic trisulphide
Lime sulphur Calcium polysulphide
Litharge Lead trioxide
Lithopone Zinc sulphide and barium sulphate
Liver of sulphur Potassium polysulphide
Lunar caustic Silver nitrate
Lye Sodium hydroxide
Magnesia Basic magnesium carbonate
Marsh gas methane
Massicot Lead monoxide
Mohr's salt Ferrous ammonium sulphate
Muriatic acid Hydrochloric acid
Nitre Potassium nitrate
Orpiment Arsenic trisulphide
Oxymuriatic acid Chlorine gas
Paris green Copper arsenite
Plaster of Paris Calcium sulphate
Plumbago Graphite
Potash Potasssium carbonate
Purple of Cassius Colloidal gold
Pyrites (iron) Ferrous sulphide
Realgar Arsenic disulphide
Red lead / Minium Lead tetroxide
Rochelle salt Sodium potassium tartrate
Sal ammoniac Ammonium chloride
Sal volatile Ammonium carbonate
Saltpeter /Sal Petrier Potassium Nitrate
Saltpeter, Norwegian Calcium nitrate
Selenite Calcium sulphate
Spirit of Nitre Nitric acid
Spirits of salt Hydrochloric acid
Sugar of lead Lead Acetate
Table salt Sodium chloride
Tartar Emetic Potassium antimonyl tartrate
Tripoli Diatomaceous earth
Verdegris Copper Acetate /carbonate
Vinegar Acetic acid
Vitriol Sulphuric Acid concentrated
Washing soda Sodium carbonate
Water Glass Sodium silicate solution
White arsenic Arsenious oxide
White Lead Lead carbonate
White vitriol Zinc sulphate
Cheers for now,
John Burgess; @John_Burgess2 of Mapua, Nelson NZ
Thanks for the “update” John ;} I minored in chem. but most of the
old nomenclature or craft/trade names didn’t even get a passing
mention. Still very useful info.
Mike Dibble
Black Horse Design
www.black-horse-design.com