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Hi
Has anyone the recipe for saturated Potassim Nitrate
I need to prepare 200mls of a saturated sonl'n
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The solubility of KNO3 is 38g/100ml. So if you start with 76g in 200ml of water. I usually heat the solution gently not to boiling and then add extra KNO3 for good measure.
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Hi Rae,

Thanks for the info,
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Hi again,

Does anyone have a solubility table???
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I get mine out of the SI Chemical Data book. Th Laboratory By B Dungey has tables on pps 11- 25.
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Thanks, I looked in the Laboratory but didn't see that it contined on the
same page ie. page 21
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