Very nicely done. The simple retort looks great. One thing though, would you consider doing this with a nitrogen flush into a receiver with mineral oil in it. I’d be concerned that without a liquid, when the apparatus cools down, air will be drawn over the fresh potassium metal. But really well done! Thanks for sharing this.
This is really cool. I was planning on making potassium metal by the alcohol catalyzed magnesium reduction method, but I will definitely give this a try. Good video.
The same thing happens when you add some magnesium scrap to the molten sodium/potassium/rubidium/caesium hydroxide-make it with no air and you will get a self propelled reaction resulting in a bunch of your desired metal!Just don't let any air into the vessel until it fully cools down!
Not really, aluminium chloride AlCl3 is very volatile. If the reaction would work, you would get a mixture of AlCl3 and K. The problem is, that thats exactly how they used to make aluminium in the past. So K and AlCl3 would form Al and KCl again.
do the electrolysis of the potassium salt in water and get the hydroxide, or combine calcium hydroxide with potash, the calcium base can be obtained from water and calcium oxide that you can get by heating up calcium carbonate in an oven and decomposing it.
Hi sir. I'm planning to do this at my school lab. But I don't have Al powder and can't buy it in my city. Lucky I have around 100g of Al ingot. So, the question is "can i use that ingot instead of powder."
@@SomeAustrianGuy do you think you could use some kind of alcohol with a high melting point as a catalyst? like with the reduction with magnesium, but using aluminium in high temperatures as in your video? maybe not as high as to no to destroy the alcohol, but higher than the magnesium-alcohol catalyzed reduction?
Sehr interessante Idee! Gute und vorallem auf sicherheit bedachte Umsetzung... plus eine saubere Erklärung also mein Abo und Like hast du direkt bekommen! Mach weiter so. Ansonsten habe ich noch eine frage: wo hast du denn das radial-Gebläse für deinen Brenner her? mfg hazelChem
I've successfully used thin aluminium shavings, so using foil should be ok. I´m pretty sure, a solid piece of Al would also work. I get my powder from amazon.
Very nicely done. The simple retort looks great. One thing though, would you consider doing this with a nitrogen flush into a receiver with mineral oil in it. I’d be concerned that without a liquid, when the apparatus cools down, air will be drawn over the fresh potassium metal. But really well done! Thanks for sharing this.
This is really cool. I was planning on making potassium metal by the alcohol catalyzed magnesium reduction method, but I will definitely give this a try. Good video.
The same thing happens when you add some magnesium scrap to the molten sodium/potassium/rubidium/caesium hydroxide-make it with no air and you will get a self propelled reaction resulting in a bunch of your desired metal!Just don't let any air into the vessel until it fully cools down!
@@johnsheppard1476 better off using lithium for reducing cesium
Would the reaction work if you replaced KOH with KCl?
Not really, aluminium chloride AlCl3 is very volatile. If the reaction would work, you would get a mixture of AlCl3 and K. The problem is, that thats exactly how they used to make aluminium in the past. So K and AlCl3 would form Al and KCl again.
@@SomeAustrianGuy Ok thank you very much 👍
I think al won't react with kcl
do the electrolysis of the potassium salt in water and get the hydroxide, or combine calcium hydroxide with potash, the calcium base can be obtained from water and calcium oxide that you can get by heating up calcium carbonate in an oven and decomposing it.
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Sehr gut umgesetzt!👍🏼 Da hab ich dann noch eine Menge Fragen an dich😅
Really nice video, I think I will follow your method. Is it usable also to make metallic sodium?
Yes, it will work even better with sodium, because NaOH/Al is even more exothermic.
Would it be possible to make NaK in one distillation by using NaOH and KOH and aluminium powder as a reducing chemical?
Yeah, It could be possible
Will it work if aluminum is replaced by charcoal?
Yes, but you need a lot more heat. Something around 1300-1400°C.
I thought this was only for demonstrative purposes
@@jervon3739 shhhh lmao
How is the purity this way, doing it with sodium instead of aluminium tends to produce NaK
Hi sir. I'm planning to do this at my school lab. But I don't have Al powder and can't buy it in my city. Lucky I have around 100g of Al ingot. So, the question is "can i use that ingot instead of powder."
would this work for sodium magnesium or lithium? maybe calcium?
It works well with sodium, but the boiling point of the other metals is probably to high.
@@SomeAustrianGuy do you think you could use some kind of alcohol with a high melting point as a catalyst? like with the reduction with magnesium, but using aluminium in high temperatures as in your video? maybe not as high as to no to destroy the alcohol, but higher than the magnesium-alcohol catalyzed reduction?
@@japanjapan3102 No, for this reaction to work, you need to distill off the metals. No alcohol will survive 800+ °C
@@SomeAustrianGuy but if there was one theoretically?
Just hang a needle suspended in thread over the metal and check if the needle repels
Cody's lab did something similar to this, but this is has no way of making NaK.
Servus, weißt du noch wo du dein KOH gekauft hast? Cooles Video!
Ich hab meins auf eBay gekauft. Gibt's aber auch auf amazon und zumindest in österreich haben es auch viele Apotheken und Drogerien.
Sehr interessante Idee! Gute und vorallem auf sicherheit bedachte Umsetzung... plus eine saubere Erklärung also mein Abo und Like hast du direkt bekommen!
Mach weiter so. Ansonsten habe ich noch eine frage: wo hast du denn das radial-Gebläse für deinen Brenner her?
mfg hazelChem
Das Radial-Gebläse hab ich mal gebraucht auf Amazon gekauft. Ich meine ich hab ca. 50€ dafür bezahlt.
Mfg Flo
What does the metal tube called?
A pipe 😮
too dangerous, i will pass this one xD, thx for the video
Killjoy 🤨
Can you also use aluminium foil pieces or you need powder? also where do you purchase your aluminium powder?
I've successfully used thin aluminium shavings, so using foil should be ok. I´m pretty sure, a solid piece of Al would also work. I get my powder from amazon.
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potassium nitrate
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It’s maths not math!
At home? You need a crisol and forge 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
Nah pretty easy really I've done this both with a basic blast furnace and on smaller scale with a gas torch