Nitric Acid

An acidic compound used in a large number of chemical products . Not suitable for food.

Notes

Nitric Acid is an industrial chemical produced through its own dedicated recipe and serves as a key intermediate in advanced manufacturing. It is used to craft Blasting Caps for explosives, as well as Etched Basic and Etched Advanced Circuits, making it essential for high-tech infrastructure and mining. Because it is tagged as an Explosive and an Ingredient, players should ensure a steady supply of Nitric Acid is available before progressing into mid-to-late-game circuit production or demolition work.

Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.

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Talents

Fuel Focus (Oil Drilling Lv 6)

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Ingredients

Ingredients for this recipe

Ingredient	Qty	Type
Compost Fertilizer	3	item
Crushed Copper Ore	2	item

Byproducts (garbage)

Garbage byproducts of this recipe

Material	Qty / craft
Bio Residue	0.24

Crafting waste collects in the station's garbage output and must be hauled away or recycled — see the Garbage & Recycling guide.

Crafting

Crafting stats

Labor	50 calories
Craft time	1 min
Throughput	≈ 60 Nitric Acid / hour (base)

Recycling & waste

• 0.1× Chemical Waste

The same salvage value leaks out as garbage when this item is consumed in crafting.

How garbage, sorting & recycling work

Total raw to craft this

Recompute for my setup

• 10× Copper Ore
• 3× Bio Residue
• 3× Fertilizer Filler (any)

Approximate — category ingredients and any production cycles are counted as raw.

Categories

• Explosives
• Ingredient
• Product

Obtained from

• Nitric Acid

Used in

• Blasting Cap
• Etched Advanced Circuit
• Etched Basic Circuit

See also

Black PowderBlasting Cap

Sharp and hungry, it eats its way into circuits and blasting caps alike. Useful, volatile, and absolutely not for dinner.