Nitric acid

Chemical formula: HNO3

CAS № 7697-37-2

Description and application:

Technical nitric acid is used in almost all industries.

• for the production of ammonium nitrate;
• complex fertilizers (nitrogen, etc.);
• for the oxidative processes of etching metals, as well as for the separation of silver and gold;
• in the production of certain explosives (for example, trinitrotoluene);
• in the production of certain organic dyes;
• for the production of sulfuric and phosphoric acid;
• in rocket science (rocket fuel oxidizer);
• in the food industry.