Nitric Acid → Aluminum nitrate

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Next an alumina precursor, basic aluminum nitroformoacetate (ANFA), was prepared. A solution was prepared by dissolving aluminum formoacetate (for preparation see Kirk-Othmer, Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, 3d edition, Vol. 2, 202-204 (1978); Al: carboxylate=1:2; formate: acetate=1:1) in water with heating to yield a 6.4 wt. % fired solids content solution. A basic aluminum nitrate solution was prepared by charging a thick walled flask with 300 g of deionized water and 62.9 ml of concentrated HNO3, stirring and heating to a boil and adding 26.98 g of aluminum powder to the boiling mixture over a period of 2 hours in 5 lots of roughly 5 g each. Deionized water was added occasionally to keep the solution volume above 300 ml. After 4 hours when the dissolution of the aluminum was essentially complete, the solution was filtered through a Whatman #5 filter and found to be 18.5 wt. % alumina. A mixture of 200 g of the basic aluminum nitrate solution and 576.1 g of the aluminum formoacetate solution was boiled for 1 hour and filtered through a Whatman #5 filter. This resulting basic aluminum nitroformoacetate solution was found to contain 13.6 wt. % alumina.

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