Question
How will you prepare the following from nitric acid?
Sodium nitrate 

Answer

Sodium nitrate:
$NaOH + HNO_3 \rightarrow NaNO_3 +H_2O$
Sodium hydroxide reacts with nitric acid to form sodium nitrate.

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