I know how to do that and how to produce nitric acid by electric discharge in air. Still I would like to know the industrial process not the private home one

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Industrial TNT production uses continuous nitration with mixed acids (sulfuric/nitric), multi-stage temperature-controlled reactors, and centrifugal separators. They recycle spent acids and use crystallization for purification.

Way safer than your garage lightning experiments.

We already did explosives in the garage many years ago but the political situation was different