Nitric Acid

Nitric Acid
Nitric Acid Fluid Icon
Properties
Type	Liquid
Made With/By	Chemical synthesis
Difficulty of Production	Easy-Medium
Exists in Reality	Yes
Can Be Placed	No
Temperature	~20°C
Renewable?	Yes
Tooltip
Nitric Acid[Strongly Corrosive] [Polluting] When spilled: - 0.00005 POISON per mB [Liquid] Hbm's Nuclear Tech
Warnings
Fire Diamond NFPA 704 3 0 2 OX Nitric Acid

In Nuclear Tech Mod, nitric acid is a commonly used fluid for the production of flammable/explosive items such as TATB, solid rocket fuel, and the fluid nitroglycerin. It is also heavily used in the electrolysis of various crystals and the cleaning/processing of bedrock ore.

The main use of nitric acid is in material refinement, along with sulfuric acid in the bedrock ore processing chain. Due to the wealth of materials that can be produced with bedrock ore processing, it is recommended to have a substantial setup which can automatically produce nitric acid given the large quantities required for automated processing.

Production

Nitric acid is produced in the chemical plant and industrial mixer from niter and and sulfuric acid or with only niter in the industrial liquefaction machine.

Chemical Plant

Inputs	Recipes
Chemistry Template: Nitric Acid Production Production Time: 2.5 seconds Inputs: Sulfuric Acid, Niter Produces: Nitric Acid	500mB 1,000mB

In an industrial liquefaction machine:

750mB

In an industrial mixer:

500mB

1,000mB

Uses

Nitric acid is used in the ore acidizer to to either "nitrate" separated bedrock ores (500 mB) or to combine 64 bedrock ore crumbs into a single piece of ore (1000 mB). Nitric acid is also used in an electrolysis machine to directly process certain (typically metal) ore crystals into molten metal (100 mB). One of the largest uses is the final step in the bedrock ore chain with the electrolyzer, where it's used to turn the processed bedrock ore into molten metals (100 mB per operation). The other uses of nitric acid in the chemical plant and industrial mixer are shown below.

Chemical Plant

Inputs	Recipes
Chemistry Template: TATB Synthesis Production Time: 2.5 seconds Inputs: Sour Gas (1 PU), Nitric Acid, TNT Produces: TATB	200mB 10mB
Chemistry Template: Solid Rocket Fuel Production Production Time: 10.0 seconds Inputs: Petroleum Gas, Nitric Acid, Solid Fuel Produces: Solid Fuel (Rocket Propellant)	200mB 100mB 2

In an industrial mixer:

500mB

500mB

1,000mB

1,000mB

1,000mB

1,000mB

250mB

250mB

500mB

External Links

• Nitric Acid Wikipedia Page