Can calcium oxide dry ammonia

Answer 1

Yes it can! So can Sodium Hydroxide but not as efficiently as Calcium Oxide as it takes more Sodium Hydroxide than it does Calcium Oxide. If generating you're own Anhydrous Ammonia by mixing Sodium Hydroxide with Ammonia Nitrate the Sodium will replace the Ammonia in the Nitrate freeing the Ammonia as well as producing water. It's best to have this piped through a condenser charge with ice water to condense the water back into the reaction vessel. Than have it passed through a chamber packed with Calcium Oxide to catch any water that isn't condensed yet. Than a cold finger charged with Dry ice and Acetone after this as a last stand against the water. This should than feed into a vessel in a bath of Dry Ice and Acetone where the Anhydrous Ammonia gas will condense into a liquid. From here you can use for a Birch Reaction or store in a cooled or pressurized compatible container. READ SAFETY CONCERNS REGARDING ANHYDROUS AMMONIA BEFORE ATTEMPTING ANY OF THIS. IT CAN AND WILL KILL YOU IF PERMITTED. Thank you.