Make Nitric Acid by Thermal Decomposition of Copper Nitrate

In this video we the thermal decomposition of copper to directly produce nitric acid without using any other acid. Normally to make nitric acid you react a nitrate salt with a strong acid like sulfuric acid. But what if we wanted to make it without any acids at all? Copper nitrate has the interesting property that if it’s heated it will decompose into nitrogen dioxide and oxygen, two components needed for nitric acid. Best of all copper nitrate itself can be made with domestically available that don’t requ