Where to get ammonium nitrate Answered

Ammonium Nitrate crystals can be found inside cold packs. Just be sure to cut open the pack near the top so as not to cut the pouch of water contained inside as well. You don't want to use it up in a chemical reaction after you went through the trouble of finding it.
ALSO, be sure the cold pack contains ammonium nitrate and not urea, it's substitute.

I found a couple of sources for ammonium nitrate of high quality for making exploding targets. I want to make my own, but have lost the 2 sources I originally found. I too, want to know a couple of GOOD QUALITY sources for the ammonium nitrate. I have recently found a lot of very negative comments on the product that USA Chemical Supply sells. HELP!

what is the source of ammonium nitrate

What kind of fertilizer is "Ammonium Nitrate"found in??

I got a manufacturer selling ammonium nitate ,but what do you use it for ? It's raw material of explosion. and how much do you want? http://www.sinooan.com/Ammonium-nitrate-australia_166.html

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So far Wallgreens is the only chain store I've found that carries ammonium nitrate Cold Packs. They have a case of 8 cold packs for $9.99. At 1/4 lb per pack (water bags
removed) that's 2 lbs for ten bucks. Not bad. And you could order them online if you
wanted to.

I must be a different kind of person. Instead of having to worry about all these bomb warnings I was thinking more of nitrous oxide (laughing gas). That's how I got here.

you can get nitric acid and sulfuric acid at: www.flinnsci.com and www.unitednuclear.com

to make red nitric acid mix potassium nitrate and 97+% sulfuric acid in equel proprtions in a retort with a ground glass. heating it gently will produce a red gas which will flow into the neck of the retort. it will flow out of the neck which should be placed in a glass container placed in a ice bath. the gas will condense on the inside of the glass container. this will be red nitric acid.

Besides using small white "balls" taken out of 'one use' instant cold packs, which can be found in random drug stores(w-mart doesn't carry them) This youtube video is the easiest way I have found to make it with cheap and easy to find ingredients. I would recommend using a hair dryer on low or drying in a large flat pan (over very very low heat) instead of waiting 1-2 days as instructed in video. Can be done in less than a hour or so depending how u "dry"(allow ingredients to evaporate). U will understand what I'm talking about after watching the video. Here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2IG49Nw1Fo (

you can get about a little less than a cup if you buy an instant cold pack

You can just go and buy it, just like any other fertilizers, how ever if they think your doing something illegal with it, they will report you, which they are legally required to do in lots of areas, and or not sell it to you or both, and yes they will question you if your just looking for one bag of it ..And can you afford, use a ton of it ?? Most big box stores don't carry it, you need to go some where dealing with agriculture, but keep this in mind, in that business every one knows every one else and if they don't know you it might get interesting....

> how do you make it? Ammonium nitrate can be prepared from Air and Water. See the "Haber Bosch" processes for details, but essentially you split the water into hydrogen and oxygen, react the hydrogen with atmospheric nitrogen to make ammonia, oxidize some of the ammonia to nitric acid using the oxygen, and then react the ammonia and the nitric acid to get your ammonium nitrate (outlaw THOSE ingredients why don't you BATF! Hah!) Commercially, the hydrogen will come from natural gas rather than water, but that's just cause it's cheaper. (rather exotic pressures, temperatures, and catalysts are required. This isn't really something you can do at home...)