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Making Nickel Nitrate (For NHN)
Nickel nitrate, like potassium nitrate, is an oxidizer and can be made from nickel metal and concentrated nitric acid. The results are some amazing green colored crystals that tend to be extremely hard. These will be used in the future to make nickel hydrazine nitrate.
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This video is strictly for demonstration purposes only.
Many of these experiments are costly. Not just in materials, but in electricity. Please consider supporting this channel by donating through PayPal. Link is above.
Thank you, as even the smallest of donations helps!
If you’d like to contact me, please email me at: glenn@cranialconstruction.com
Disclaimer: Under no circumstances will Cranial Construction be held responsible or liable in any way for any content, including, but not limited to, any errors or omissions in the content, or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of any content communicated in this video, whether by Cranial Construction or a 3rd Party. In no event shall Cranial Construction, or any name otherwise implied to be used in place of Cranial Construction that redirects to the same, be responsible for any consequential damages or loss connected to reproducing any of this video’s content, descriptions, visual aids, or instructions. Cranial Construction assumes no liability for property damage or injury incurred as a result of any of the information contained in this video. Use any and all information at your own risk. Any injury, damage, or personal loss that may result from the improper use of any tools, equipment, or chemicals, or from any of the information contained in this video, is the sole responsibility of the user and not Cranial Construction.
This video is strictly for demonstration purposes only.
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Yeah what did you use???
Your over-view of the reactions is very helpful for developing suspense and expectations for what to watch for in the following experiment. Keep up the great work!
What means "prn"?
Damn CAN has me going in circles 🔵 Question: can you use a crushed carbon anode from a D size battery for quality carbon 🔋? Note: that blending carbon without a mask will have you blowing black snot for days and days wear a mask 100% 😅 and i have everything to do this experiment yet worry that the blow pressure from the torch would blow away precious ingredients or melt the tuna/chicken can 😮. Now my study goes into leaking alkaline batteries 🤔 Lye + Dry ice ? Equaling Potassium carbonate?
In my head i see the sulfuric acid eating the pH paper 📃 i dont know why.
A spectacular test would be to finely powder some of the nickel nitrate and thoroughly mix with some fine magnesium or magnalium powder (fine aluminum powder or fine zinc powder would also work, probably). Ignite with a fuse of magnesium ribbon. You'd get a thermite-like reaction. I 'accidentally' discovered a similar transition metal salt - reducing metal thermite-like reaction when I had a chemistry set during my childhood. I did some experiments that were not listed in the little booklet that came with the chemistry set. One of those experiments was as follows: I moistened, with water, a ~2 inch length of magnesium ribbon and used that moistened ribbon to pick up some fine copper sulfate (hexahydrate) crystals, until the ribbon was evenly coated in the copper sulfate crystals. Then, with metal tongs held at arms length, I ignited the very end of the copper sulfate crystal-coated magnesium ribbon in a Bunsen flame. The rapid deflagration, with sputtering, was spectacular
Cool video and process. Do you know of an inexpensive method of producing heptyl butyrate?
Very informative, thanks! Could you make a video on making NH4ClO4 from other perchlorates?
NHN next?
Yep
@cranialconstruction2218 are you going to use the hydrazine sulfate method?
How does that work compared to the hyrazine hydrate methode? @@Ignis_1
Excellent video, i would love to see you do the next step and take advantage of your products oxidation potential. Have a great weekend everyone
Thank you! You too!
Hi! I would also like to give a gift. I cannot for the life of me remember how I did it the last 2 times. Plz forgive me! But my gift will be for Dr. Mr. Butane Fireball. He deserves something, too!😉
You're memory serves you well! Thanks, he'll definitely appreciate it. He's on a sabbatical studying the effect of air on breathing. Haha!
Love your explanations, you do a very good job of relaying how reactions work. Great video as always.
You said you needed to insulate the inside of the metal lamp shade, because the microwave interacting with the metal causes sparks. It doesn’t look like you ever did that. What am I missing?
What's up sir? I enjoyed this so much, I decided to do it on a smaller scale beings my dumb ass forgot to order more HCL from my supplier this month so I had no choice to go smaller, I filmed it BUT I lost the begging footage, so theres only the last stages as I'm adding aluminium to extract the U.S currency now laundered!😂 all and all I enjoyed doing it, and my mixture of hcl and kno3 also turned orange! Amazing! I've heard about that mixture but never seen it/ did it until two nights ago! Keep posting brother, I'll keep posting also. P.S I did give you props on the idea in comments 🖖👌
Thank you!
I have no idea how chemistry works but what happens to copper when put it in vinegar to make copper sulfate? Is there just less copper or does it somehow change? Thanks
Hmmm. Copper does react with vinegar (acetic acid) but it's very, very slow. Eventually the vinegar will turn green, which is copper acetate. When all of the vinegar evaporates you would get green crystals of copper acetate. I'm just not sure what you meant about copper sulfate? You can get that by putting copper metal in sulfuric acid, but it forms some dangerous toxic gasses in the process.
Is there a particular brand and type of potassium nitrate you recommend..? Looking online,, there are several different types,,??
That's a great question. Potassium nitrate from a fireworks store is usually what I get. I've used a place called Skylighter quite a bit.
Excellent story!
Iodine is my fav element!
I bet your kids had fun when they were little!
I think so. We definitely didn't do just average Dad/kid stuff.
I absolutely loved this video! This is just another example of why I love your channel! You are so darn smart!
I see you're digging through some older videos : ). At times I even forget what I've done in the past. Thank you!
Now this Pses me off i want to make ammonia nitrate but cant find affordable sodium nitrate and you need ammonia nitrate + lye to make sodium nitrate or sodium bicarbonate + calcium nitrate to make sodium nitrate 😵💫
Yeah I've been there. When I started I could only do experiments with the chemicals I already had as everything seemed too expensive. I have to plan carefully so I can afford something I don't already have.
Thank you for the reply , I've found a way, study study study until it gets through into my thick skull ,could it be as simple as dissolving CAN in D'H2O @ 20°c+ filtering out the calcium carbonate? right now, im doing a study into what the % of calcium to NH4NO3 in a single comman granule. @cranialconstruction2218
@@cranialconstruction2218😅 yeah speaking of this video I found that widow washer fluid for my vehicle has methanol in it maybe I could purify it , not sure if I've seen you post that type of experiment yet but it is a good idea for a future one 😉
Just a warning about drying over an incandescent bulb. Let's just say someone I know try to do exactly that with some wet ETN and it detonated after about 35 minutes completely blowing out the side of their house windows while they were in the room with their dog! Lovely only hearing damage but terrifying and hugely regrettable
Wow, that's terrible. Yes, a lightbulb can get very hot still.
Can u make ammonium nitrate from calcium ammonium nitrate please
I have an older video covering that exact topic on my channel
Does higher amperage increase the production speed? I wanna run my cell with 30 amps
Yes, as long as the electrodes can handle the higher amps
Great for military grade flash grenades
Nice! But do I break out my torch to make the nickel melt? I'd like to make an ingot.
Nickel melts at around 1,450 degrees C. A standard propane torch can't melt Nickel, but something like an acetylene torch will.
Holy shit! I see said the blind man!
Is it possible to use the coating obtained in this way in chloride electrolysis? Is the coating durable enough for this process?
Yes it should be survive
you can make bigger rocket and use powerful sugar motor rocket and aluminum powder and use anfo and aluminum powder as war head. the launcher is great all you need is powerful and fast rocket to destroy the armor
Thanks.
Orange from diasolved nitric oxides
What are your plans for the Nickel Nitrate? NHN? I converted 20 grams of 99.98% pure nickel electroplating anodes into Nickel (II) Nitrate Hexahydrate a couple years ago, I got 69.98 grams out of it which is a nearly 100% yield. I dissolved the nickel in 68% nitric acid with a splash of 35% H2O2 to help kick things off, then once it was fully dissolved I boiled it down to a soup then vacuum dessicated it to yield some nice gorgeous green crystals. I haven't done anything with it yet but I've got 100ml of 60% Hydrazine Hydrate ready and waiting, I moved recently and haven't had time to set up my lab but I'm hoping to do a NHN synth soon.
Umm...you basically laid out my plans over the next several videos. Probably not one after another but I think it's a good plan myself : )
I love that little hand. Very informating.
Haha thanks!
Nickel for the special pipes required for the Oak Ridge Tennessee diffusion plant came from Canada, which had to in turn mint coinage for 1943 and 1944 from Tombak bronze alloy and stainless steel respectively.
Did not know that. Thanks for the history, something I really enjoy.
@cranialconstruction2218 if you go by the Canadian mints in Winnipeg there's a gigantic replica of a 1951 nickel which commemorates the nickel smelters I think in Sudbury
I'm going to clean up some nickel nitrate that's contaminated with copper, it's just such a hassle that I haven't gotten around to it yet but I need some more pure nickel carbonate.
Yeah, some things just aren't all that exciting to do but are necessary
@cranialconstruction2218 I enjoy the process of it. Even though I mostly do energetics I really enjoy the lab work and figuring out new synths more than the booms.
I get way too excited when you make a video. I have to wait until I am not busy, and I am in a comfy spot before I can watch. I don't want to miss a moment. I like your playful side. Or should I say your Dr. Mr. Fireball side!😊
Wonderfull. Again well done and presented. Love it!
Thumbs up because this is exciting! I recently purchased 2 pounds of 99.9% Nickel squares so I can make nickel salts. But now you demonstrated how I can turn it into fine nickel powder for reactions that requires it. Best part the powder is generated by chemical means!
Yes but that's a ton of Nickel to dissolve!
@ Yes I am only going to maybe use 150 grams or so for now. Considering that most hydrated nickel salts are 20-25% nickel metal by wait that’s 600 grams of nickel salts more or less. I may sell the rest or make alloys when I get a furnace
@ Yes, probably nearly a lifetime supply. I want to make some of the nickel salts for crystal growing like nickel sulfate and nickel ammonium sulfate. For nickel plating maybe the acetate, chloride and sulfamate.
Nice presentation! I'd love to see nickel particles in water or nickel slurry agitated by a magnetic stirrer without a stirbar, that'd look nice if the magnet in the stirrer is strong enough.
Shoot, I wish I had thought of that
Any ideas on storing for a medium amount of time? Like if I made some and wanted to wait a week to use it
It should easily last that long. Make sure the top to the container is tightly fit. Putting it in the fridge will help too.
Noice
Very interesting. I thought there should be more nickel, but it turned out to be little.
Didn't know that copper drop out first.. I thought nickel was more reactive then copper as of the reactivity series. Aluminum can actually drop every other metal in solution except the alkaline earth metals. Maybe the reason why copper drop out first is maybe because the cement nickel goes back into solution since it react with copper chloride. I think it possible to add nickel to the nickel, copper solution to drop out copper out & enrich the solution with nickel, then aluminum foil or iron can be added to drop all nickel.
As you said, even if copper dissolves in acid Cu2+ is going to react with metallic nickel and precipitate again, at least if enough time passes for all the dissolved copper to react. The same happens while adding aluminum. Even if nickel precipitates, it's going to react with Cu2+ and dissolve again. However, since part of the foil reacted with leftover acid only part of the copper precipitated. When the foil is added for the second time, the rest of the copper precipitates along with some nickel, so the nickel powder is contaminated with copper. You can even see the solution is still green from leftover Ni2+. To get pure nickel you should neutralize leftover acid first with a strong hydroxide or even baking soda first before adding the foil. Also, commercial foil can have as little as 90-92% aluminum. Even if the rest are metals more active than nickel and copper, you can still be off because of different atomic masses and less valence electrons, but that's probably less of an error compared to foil reacting with acid.
If he got 20,7 g of copper instead of 22,5 g that means there should be 1,8 g of copper in his 7,14 g of impure nickel (25% copper, 75% nickel).
Poor man's Aqua regia. Nice.
as much as I love your videos, if you could sparce out the whiteboard sessions, or replace the finger and board with footage and you say what you do there
Thanks for your input. Frankly, that's what every other channel does. The number of people that support the way this channel does things really does far outweigh those that don't.
@Is that raccoon wild? You might get rabies if you don´t try to stay away from them!
LOL! People don't think about it because they're so "cute"... until an aggressive male or defensive female takes a bite out of their leg for one reason or another. I was at a camp once where everyone kept feeding the wild racoons. It got to the point that this one family of them would show up every morning t dawn and night at dusk. Well, one guy got up a little earlier and went out to smoke. While he was opening the cigarette pack, the crinkling of the cellophane sounded like a bag of chips. When the pretty aggressive daddy racoon heard that, he came charging out of nowhere and sank his teeth right in the guys calve muscle. He of course went to the hospital and of course, got the first of 5 rounds of rabies shots, each consisting of a shot in all 4 extremities, 2 around the bit, and one around his spine... So each round was 7 injections, for 5 times. And.. The owners of the camp had to exterminate the racoons because they had become acclimated to people. Relocation was not an option.
It's been raised since it was a baby. Believe it or not, President Hoover had a pet raccoon the entire time he was president.
@cranialconstruction2218 That's another story. Good thing that's the case for you. I also never heard or red anything about president Hoover and him having a pet raccoon. That got me curious. Also how did you end up with a baby raccoon? I've also heard that they're quite messy and destructive when it comes to having one inside the house. It's a bit hard to believe that little fella hasn't given a lot of trouble.
Love your channel!! What I usually do is wrap the magnet in paper and then pull the nickel. It will stick and then hopefully, will pull away from magnet without tearing paper.
Seriously great idea. Thanks!
I have done that to clean metal shavings from electrical enclosures after drilling holes. Sometimes I forget about the paper and then struggle to clean off my magnet.
What do you do with the nickel when you’re done?
Nickel has many interesting application, because they are somewhat corrosion resistant (they don't rust that easy). It's used in stainless steel, magnets, in laboratory for hydrogenation of alkene, etc You gotta be careful with these powder nickel, they can be dangerous if ingest or may cause risk of 💥.
Why do u call nitric acid ,aqua reaga, Nevermind your using hcl
He said the mixture of Nitric acid and Hydrochloric acid is aqua regia. It's what you get when you react the potassium nitrate and Hydrochloric acid together! Quick cheaper method
It's been a bit since I posted a long form video. It's been a very busy last few weeks for me. Thank you all for your patience!
I hope busy equals having fun!
i am not familiar with the us laws on defacing coinage but in canada this is illegal
It burns even better in a 7:3 ratio! its stronger but its shorter