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Naziru Imam

What chemical reaction occurs when you mix lead nitrate and hydrochloric acid?

Chris Harrington  Follow

This would be a double replacement reaction. I assume that it is lead (II) nitrate.

Pb(NO3)2 + 2HCl → 2HNO3 + PbCl2

This reaction forms Nitric acid and Lead (II) Chloride.

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Alan Mayer  Follow

You would get lead chloride and nitric acid.

If you did this under vacuum, stirring in a flask with a cold trap online, the nitric acid would come over as NO2 which would freeze down and if you’re lucky would produce solid white fuming nitric acid! This is the strongest nitric acid you can get (stronger than red fuming nitric acid), reaction works better with potassium nitrate and sulphuric acid (which is not what you asked for, but I thought you might be interested!). I used to produce white fuming nitric acid all the time to produce nitrated amine compounds (nitramines)

Good luck

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