How Do You Make Nitrogen Triiodide?
This is a great chemistry demonstration that can show students just unstable some chemical bonds can be. On and electronic balance or triple beam balance, weight out about 1 gram of iodine crystals, and place them into a 150 milliliter or larger beaker. Pour in 50 milliliters of household grade ammonia to the beaker containing the iodine crystals. Swish around the ammonia and crystals and then allow them to react for about 10 to 15 minutes. When the reaction is complete there should be liquid and a dark solid in the bottom of the beaker. Pour the contents of the beaker onto a piece of filter paper. Allow the liquid to funnel through the filter paper while keeping the solid on the filter paper. Allow the wet solid to dry for three or more hours in a dry safe place. Once the solid is dry it should appear as dark purple crystals. To demonstrate the unstableness of the nitrogen triiodide crystals I suggest connecting a feather, pipe cleaner, or some other light material to the end of a met
