How much nitric acid and distill water you need to make 1 kg of silver nitrate?

Answer 1

We'll be using wikipedia as a guide for this problem.

So you're starting with the following, and presumably have access to an unlimited supply of each:

Nitric acid: HNO3

Distilled water: H2O

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You want to create 1 kg of the following:

Silver nitrate: AgNO3

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From wikipedia:

"Silver nitrate can be prepared by reacting silver, such as a silver bullion or silver foil, with nitric acid, resulting in silver nitrate, water, and oxides of nitrogen.3 Ag + 4 HNO3 → 3 AgNO3 + 2 H2O + NO3 Ag + 6 HNO3 → 3 AgNO3 + 3 H2O + 3 NO2 "Ok, great - this is just basic chemistry, and we already have an infinite amount of nitric acid. So now we just need some pure silver. We'll assume the problem means that we can't create the AgNO3 from anything except the water and acid we're given. Otherwise it'd probably be easier to just mine/buy some silver, or perhaps bottle and sell the distilled water in exchange for some Ag. But if that were allowed, then we might as well just trade our ingredients for the finished product, and avoid having to do the work ourselves.

Anyway, some people might say at this point, "you can't get silver from water and nitric acid!" But we're not some people - we just have to use nuclear chemistry. So one atom of Ag has 47 protons, 47 electrons, and we'll just use 60 neutrons, since that's the lightest stable form. Perfect, we have an infinite supply of these in our reactants! Now we just need a super high tech fusion reactor. That should be an allowable solution; after all, there was a time when glass beakers were also a super high tech item only available in the future.

So anyway, I'm not sure what would be the best reactant to start with, as I'm not a nuclear scientist/engineer. Perhaps some of the energy from fusing the small elements could make up for the extra energy needed to fuse iron and larger elements up to Ag.

Frankly, I'd need to do some more reading before I'd be able to get much farther. Perhaps someone else can add to this answer to help complete our necessary nuclear fusion work.