Ammonium chloride (alias "sal ammoniac")
Anyone know where to find ammonium chloride, otherwise known as sal
ammoniac, in granular/powder form? (Somewhere in the Seattle-Portland corridor would be great!) I know welding supply places can get the stuff in one pound bars but I was hoping to find a small tub of it in technical grade. Found one place on the Web but the shipping costs more than the material. (McCreight suggests it as a flux for niello.) Cheers! Neil |
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-- Don Thompson ~~~~~~~~ "Neil Marsh" wrote in message ... Anyone know where to find ammonium chloride, otherwise known as sal ammoniac, in granular/powder form? (Somewhere in the Seattle-Portland corridor would be great!) I know welding supply places can get the stuff in one pound bars but I was hoping to find a small tub of it in technical grade. Found one place on the Web but the shipping costs more than the material. (McCreight suggests it as a flux for niello.) Cheers! Neil |
On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 15:21:45 GMT, "Don T"
wrote: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&i...=Google+Search Googled already (though I used "supplier" rather than "dealer"), got 25.5K+ hits. Too many to sort though and lacking in current information like who got closed down for selling precursors to meth cooks. Adding "ammonium chloride" to the search narrows it to 18, none of which are area dealers. Changing that to "sal ammoniac' gets one hit with more than I ever wanted to know about phosphoric acid. So, I asked the group. Peter replied by e-mail and mentioned what smelly stuff ammonium chloride is to use. This puts me in a dilemma. Do I find something else, or go ahead and use it so the wife will demand I go buy an exhaust fan system? Hmmmm....decisions, decisions. Cheers! Neil |
Stained Glass stores usually have it in a small solid block form. I don't
know about the powder form. -- Connie Ryman Cryman Studio "Neil Marsh" wrote in message ... Anyone know where to find ammonium chloride, otherwise known as sal ammoniac, in granular/powder form? (Somewhere in the Seattle-Portland corridor would be great!) I know welding supply places can get the stuff in one pound bars but I was hoping to find a small tub of it in technical grade. Found one place on the Web but the shipping costs more than the material. (McCreight suggests it as a flux for niello.) Cheers! Neil |
Neil Marsh wrote: Anyone know where to find ammonium chloride, otherwise known as sal ammoniac, in granular/powder form? (Somewhere in the Seattle-Portland corridor would be great!) I know welding supply places can get the stuff in one pound bars but I was hoping to find a small tub of it in technical grade. Found one place on the Web but the shipping costs more than the material. A technique I always wanted to try --ever since learning how to make jewelry from Robert von Neumann's book The Design and Creation of Jewelry. He gives several formulas for making the niello -- and using it. I loved the names of the various formulas for niello: Pliny, Cellini, Augsburg No. 1, Theophilus, Contemporary Russian, Modern French..... He also mentions that the armorer for the Metropolitan Museum of Art uses Handy Flux (a paste flux) thinned to the consistency of milk (for doing repairs). Von Neumann does recommend ammonium chloride as a flux, but says that "an older fluxing technique consisted of painting the metal with a barely milky borax solution..... So you could try borax... I vaguely remember from my science fair days years ago that flashlight batteries contained ammonium chloride, but this may be my imagination....don't expect it would be pure, if there at all, or that you'd want to go soaking some old flashlight batteries. What fun! |
One of the "hits" was to the "yellow pages" in the Seattle phone book.
Funny what a phone call will do. Just because a google search does not return a solid hit for sal ammoniac or Ammonium Chloride two streets over and one block down does not mean you can't get it at that place. I don't know of ANY chemical seller that has an item by item listing of every chemical they stock on their google "hit" page. You have to look for yourself. I took the "liberty" of providing a web page where you can purchase Ammonium Chloride, by the pound, any amount you want for $3.05 a pound or if purchased 10 pounds at a time $2.62 a pound. Not in or near Seattle, but hell, the postman always rings twice. http://www.skylighter.com/mall/chemicals.asp?Sort=A -- Don Thompson How is it that modern liberals can disregard 5,000 years of military experience in favor of the slogans, some formed facetiously, of the "peace" movement of the 1960's? http://belmontclub.blogspot.com/ ~~~~~~~~ "Neil Marsh" wrote in message ... On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 15:21:45 GMT, "Don T" wrote: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&i...=Google+Search Googled already (though I used "supplier" rather than "dealer"), got 25.5K+ hits. Too many to sort though and lacking in current information like who got closed down for selling precursors to meth cooks. Adding "ammonium chloride" to the search narrows it to 18, none of which are area dealers. Changing that to "sal ammoniac' gets one hit with more than I ever wanted to know about phosphoric acid. So, I asked the group. Peter replied by e-mail and mentioned what smelly stuff ammonium chloride is to use. This puts me in a dilemma. Do I find something else, or go ahead and use it so the wife will demand I go buy an exhaust fan system? Hmmmm....decisions, decisions. Cheers! Neil |
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