Drain cleaner is a safer source of it than car batteries. Just ignore the lead contamination left over that you have in there. You can purify it out of your acid, but that would involve making the acid into something else, purifying that, then turning it back into acid (which isn't easy) or reacting the lead out. You can also distill the sulfuric acid out to purify it and concentrate it, but this is pretty dangerous and not something the amateur chemist should be trying as it's a great way to inhale acid fumes with possibly lead in them. Hence why getting sulfuric acid out of a battery is a really bad source that only somebody that doesn't know what the heck they're doing would do, like somebody cooking meth or that didn't at least take some college course in the subject. It's part of the reason why the cheap and small batch stuff causes a lot of brain and nerve damage in addicts. The mass produced labs are using chemical supplies that are more commercial and in bulk, so this isn't the problem, but there are others, again, from not knowing what they are going and making poison and/or using it in the process. The drug being unsafe outright is another problem, but we are talking chemistry reagent sourcing here and car batteries are not a good source, unless you need lead sulfate.
@@KnightsWithoutATable most drain cleaners nowadays are NaOH based - or contain jellifying agents etc that might be tricky to get rid of... if you can get the reasonably pure stuff as drain cleaner you're 100% right of course.
Back in the early '90s, I grew alum crystals for a science fair project in 7th grade. I also grew some other crystals (copper sulphate for sure, as well as sucrose and sodium chloride...but there were a couple other more exotic types...pretty sure one was chromium-based, while the other was a manganese salt). I obviously sourced the alum from the drug store, not wood, aluminum foil, and battery acid (lol, while awesome, that is a time-consuming and highly inefficient way to get alum when you can just...buy it). But aside from that, the process was the same. Super-saturate a solution, sprinkle some alum in, get the seed crystals, tie them to some fine fishing line, and grow them bigger. And over a few weeks, I did grow a couple gorgeous alum crystals. They were smallish - like maybe 6 or 7 mm in diameter, but they were perfectly clear and displayed a striking octahedral structure, just like little diamonds. It was a fun project, and I put a lot of time into it, but the judge still only awarded me a silver medal. OH, I was so mad...but I got over it.
I love the giant filter paper, not only because of the absurdity but it genuinely probably filtered about as quickly as if you were to use a vaccum filter since the huge surface area and high material volume you can process in one batch.
I really love this video as alum was one of the first crystals i grew and its always been my favorite! I made a few kilos to grow a huge crystal in a bucket but never got around to it. Maybe its time 😆 I love how you made the potassium sulfate from potash that was a really cool touch!
Hey, when's the video of growing meth crystals for people who just want to enjoy making crystals and don't spend most of their time hoarding random chemicals in their garage?
i made some sodium acetate to play with and it really looks like dirty cheap meth. (uh, from Breaking Bad! I would never know what cheap meth looks like for real uh huh uh huh). I've got all these coffee filters with little yellowish crystals in my kitchen now :P
Aluminum dissolves much easier in potassium hydroxide to form the aluminate, which could be made beforehand from calcium hydroxide (availble in every hardware store) and potash by a double displacement reaction called caustification. Adding sulfuric acid will convert the potassum aluminate into potassium sulfate and aluminum hydroxide, which redissolves again in an access of the acid. The resulting clear solution contains the desired alum then.
No, calcium hydroxide reacts with potassium carbonate to form potassium hydroxide and insoluble calcium carbonate which is easy to filter off by gravity filtration (of not too concentrated solutions were used), before aluminum is added to the potassium hydroxide solution to be dissolved in there.
@@experimental_chemistry Whoops, sorry I somehow thought you were making calcium aluminate. But still, I wouldn't call calcium carbonate easy to filter either. That stuff really likes clogging filters.
@@chnhakk No, not when letting the precipitate chill for a while until the gelatenous mass breaks down into a fine crystalline powder, which is easy to filter off by gravity or using a glass frit while doing vacuum filtration. But don't forget to rinse the frit with dilute hydrochloric acid and distilled water afterwards to clean the pores for the next use.
Sulfuric acid: He gets it from a car battery. And I instantly know he's not living in north America. Fun fact: While in north America Sulfuric acid drain cleaner is pretty common, you'll never find it at all in Europe! Here there's only alkaline drain cleaner made of concentrated sodium or potassium hydroxide! So in north America it's so much simpler to get concentrated sulfuric acid as an amateur! European amateur chemists struggle with that 😅 And while it's an inconvenience for us knowing chemistry, I absolutely understand the reason concerning normal people: You don't want to give a normal person the same product, just different brands, with concentrated acid and base in each other. People are... People... So they'll mix them. No matter how many warnings you put on the products, they will do it! So someone decided which one is better. Base saponifies any proteins, especially hair. The main reason for most plugged drains. Sulfuric acid does catalyze hydrolization, but that's way slower. So base it is 😅
I still regret pasding up 3 liter bottles of sulfuric acid based drain cleaner I found in a hardware store a few years ago. It was so weird seeing it in there, given that I live in eastern Europe, and as you said, it is extremely unlikely to find acid based drain cleaner
You comment is hard to read, maybe it's me. My guess is you are from Europe. Well hear in the US you still can find batteries with sulfuric acid, but yes it is easier to buy it as a drain cleaner. As far as people go...there are some real dumb ones and some smart ones...what happens when you mix them together, same thing you get a reaction. Most Americans have so many dangerous chemicals under their sink if mixed. Perfect example bleach and amonia, both household cleaners but a deadly mix. Back in the day there were more votile chemicals under the sink than today, probally to many kids dying from poisoning too. Some people just dont get the education needed to stay safe. It is by far always better to not mix chemicals you dont know about or buy organic cleaners instead. 😊
we have good saying in croatian, putting water into acid is VUK (voda u kiselinu) VUK - wolf (dangerous animal) Voda - h2o, U - (to put something in, into) Kiselina - acid pozdrowienia dla polskich braci
Couldn't you use the amphoteric nature of aluminum to dissolve it directly in the wood ash solution, then dope the solution out with a really easy sulfate source like Epsom salts?
I found it interesting that the solution had to remain at a constant rather than be buried like some methods of growing crystals calls for of which these steps that were emplioyed all viable in that process also. Good job.
I think you're doing it great. one tip to do it even better is to place a smaller pad of wood under the blocks you chop so you can dig a hole in your patio bricks and plant a tree to chop down later.
Given that both potassium hydroxide and aluminium react with copper sulphate to create the respective sulphates, is it feasable to do this without any sulphuric acid?
@@Amateur.Chemistry if you can achieve that, then you will be a rich man, pal. Google search for Optical great doped KCrSO4 crystals or KTiOPO4, hack even the KAlSO4 has intresting Laser properties. If you go down that rabbit hole😂
Aluminum comes with an oxide layer. Expect a rapid reaction once enough acid cuts through it. I think that solution suddenly got cloudy at the point there was just enough reactants of each specie molecule-to-molecule (stoichiometrically)
Can I ask why you (and others I have seen) only choose a quick pour-through form of washing the ash initially? Is it to obtain only the most water soluble aspects and avoid other impurities? This must be it - since surely a substance would normally be mixed with hot water and stirred - then filtered.
At some point, can you do a simplified version of this for kids. Maybe using alum - which wr can get at the grocery store? Thanks so much. This is an awesome! video
I understand that it isnt in the spirit of the experiment, but aluminum sulphate can be bought as a soil acidifier for changing the color of some pH sensitive plants, such as hydrangeas.
potassium alum melts pretty much at the boiling point of water. i wonder if filtration can be avoided by just mixing potassium sulfate with all that mess and just heating it up. curious if liquid alum will just flow down, keeping the precipitate out
I remember as a kid seeing a classic cartoon like bugs bunny or something. In it, as a prank to someone in the cartoon he got a spoonful of white powder out of a container that said ALUM. Stuck it in the guys mouth and it made his mouth like retract in like instant cotton mouth or something. Years later I saw it as an ingredient in grocery stores where spices are. Don’t see it any more but always remembered that cartoon. Seems like another bad idea type challenge that kids would try now a day. lol
@Amateur Chemistry If you´re interested I can tell you a way I found to purify and extract the potassium from wood, plant and vegetable ashes as pure potassium carbonate, which is better than just leaching all the potassium salts from them.
@@kerrimtthefrog1001 Oh, really? Alright! This is how it goes: Step 1: Treat the ash solution with calcium chloride to precipitate calcium carbonate and other anions that form insoluble calcium salts and then filter the mixture and save the filtrate. Step 2: If there is any excess of calcium chloride in the solution, just add oxalic acid / sulfuric acid / potassium or sodium oxalates or sulfates until no more precipitate is formed and then filter the mixture and save the filtrate. Step 3: Boil the solution to concentrate it until crystals start to appear and then allow it to cool to room temperature. After that, add the minimal amount of water to redissolve any crystals that may still present. Step 4: Prepare a saturated solution of sodium bitartrate a.k.a. sodium hydrogen tartrate by reacting sodium hydroxide, carbonate or bicarbonate with tartaric acid in the right ratio and then boil the solution to concentrate it until crystals start to form. Step 5: Mix the saturated solution of sodium bitartarate with the saturated solution of impure potassium chloride to precipitate potassium bitartrate a.k.a. potassium hydrogen tartrate. If you want, you can put the mixture in an ice bath or in a freezer to squeeze a little bit more yield. Step 6: Filter the crystalline precipitate and wash it a few times with ice cold water and ethanol, and then let it dry. Step 7: Heat the dry potassium bitartrate in a glass container like a test tube or a round bottom flask, for example, up to more or less 200 ºC until no more water and other fumes are released. It is going to char and get black, but that is to be expected. After allowing the solid to cool to room temperature, extract to resulting potassium carbonate with water and filter the solution to remove the black byproducts. Step 8: Evaporate the solution and you´ll have high purity potassium carbonate.
A small note, these crystals can become ugly and white with air humidity even when lacquered. Best you keep them with some drying agent like silica gel. You can add copper sulfate to tint them a very beautiful blue, I guess food colouring might also work, but I am not sure.
It's a very good chance for true potassium and fructose gas I think it was the fiscal year of my life I remember it was in my experience as a young man I was amazed of different kinds of Crystals which could be used in gas states essentially have a carbon substrate that forms autonomously in liquid state and added higher temperatures this is a Tallow flow crystal clear glaze and steel stainless steel coating is a heat resistant stainless with the surface densities high enough to make defense of corrosion
I just watch these for the pronunciations, like it's an alien from another planet who somehow learned English but has no idea how the words are meant to sound. Funny! But sometimes the subtitles are really non-optional 😅
@@Amateur.Chemistry You’re doing great! Watch more content in English and really absorb how words are spoken. I’m also a non-native speaker and we will probably never be perfect and that’s okay too!
Lol why does that giant piece of filter paper exist? I mean I get you an make your own filters, but how expensive are filters compared to making your own 🤔 😂 Great video too, I'm going to try this one. Ty for this one. 👍👍
I mean, wouldn't it be easier and cost effective to just dissolve sugar or table salt into water, then crys out the sugar or table salt on a washer tied to a string? I've made really clear ones before. Must admit though, this one is neater, and uses slightly more complex procedures. NVM now that I think about it, this is waaaay better for an amateur chemist.
You started talking about it being non-toxic but then you mentioned using battery acid. I hope you meant unused sulfuric acid used for batteries. Otherwise your non-toxic crystals will have toxic Lead. Please avoid using Lead acid.
You can make the crystals without these things by working outdoors and using regular gravity filtration, I used these to make things go faster and safer :)
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I love how the goal is to make it easy for a non-chemist to make and the first step is to extract pure battery acid
couldn't you do it with swimming pool ph lowering chemical?
Basically sodium bisulfate; should not disturb the chemistry too much, should it?
Drain cleaner is a safer source of it than car batteries.
Just ignore the lead contamination left over that you have in there. You can purify it out of your acid, but that would involve making the acid into something else, purifying that, then turning it back into acid (which isn't easy) or reacting the lead out. You can also distill the sulfuric acid out to purify it and concentrate it, but this is pretty dangerous and not something the amateur chemist should be trying as it's a great way to inhale acid fumes with possibly lead in them.
Hence why getting sulfuric acid out of a battery is a really bad source that only somebody that doesn't know what the heck they're doing would do, like somebody cooking meth or that didn't at least take some college course in the subject. It's part of the reason why the cheap and small batch stuff causes a lot of brain and nerve damage in addicts. The mass produced labs are using chemical supplies that are more commercial and in bulk, so this isn't the problem, but there are others, again, from not knowing what they are going and making poison and/or using it in the process. The drug being unsafe outright is another problem, but we are talking chemistry reagent sourcing here and car batteries are not a good source, unless you need lead sulfate.
@@KnightsWithoutATable most drain cleaners nowadays are NaOH based - or contain jellifying agents etc that might be tricky to get rid of... if you can get the reasonably pure stuff as drain cleaner you're 100% right of course.
Back in the early '90s, I grew alum crystals for a science fair project in 7th grade. I also grew some other crystals (copper sulphate for sure, as well as sucrose and sodium chloride...but there were a couple other more exotic types...pretty sure one was chromium-based, while the other was a manganese salt). I obviously sourced the alum from the drug store, not wood, aluminum foil, and battery acid (lol, while awesome, that is a time-consuming and highly inefficient way to get alum when you can just...buy it). But aside from that, the process was the same. Super-saturate a solution, sprinkle some alum in, get the seed crystals, tie them to some fine fishing line, and grow them bigger. And over a few weeks, I did grow a couple gorgeous alum crystals. They were smallish - like maybe 6 or 7 mm in diameter, but they were perfectly clear and displayed a striking octahedral structure, just like little diamonds. It was a fun project, and I put a lot of time into it, but the judge still only awarded me a silver medal. OH, I was so mad...but I got over it.
Sounds like it would be easier for me to buy fake ones from a certain Chinese web site...not saying temu
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So how does ...say... purple ones be made by a certain Chinese company...not saying temu.
@@sislertxso do that. The point is to make them here...
I love the giant filter paper, not only because of the absurdity but it genuinely probably filtered about as quickly as if you were to use a vaccum filter since the huge surface area and high material volume you can process in one batch.
I really love this video as alum was one of the first crystals i grew and its always been my favorite! I made a few kilos to grow a huge crystal in a bucket but never got around to it. Maybe its time 😆
I love how you made the potassium sulfate from potash that was a really cool touch!
After the "...Make Some Beautiful Crystals" line I expected the 4chan ammonia, bleach and a straw infographic
And copper pennies, can't forget the pennies!
Yeah, I was like "Oh no, I aint falling for this a third time."
What was it
@@LaForjaEspiritual Mustard gas.
@@B_4035mn u mean NH2Cl NHCl2 and NCl3
Hey, when's the video of growing meth crystals for people who just want to enjoy making crystals and don't spend most of their time hoarding random chemicals in their garage?
i made some sodium acetate to play with and it really looks like dirty cheap meth. (uh, from Breaking Bad! I would never know what cheap meth looks like for real uh huh uh huh). I've got all these coffee filters with little yellowish crystals in my kitchen now :P
I read this comment at the same time he said it
Oh no 💀
Potassium nitrate crystals look a lot like meth.
Yeah but let's say we want crystal meth... Just because we respect the chemistry...
Aluminum dissolves much easier in potassium hydroxide to form the aluminate, which could be made beforehand from calcium hydroxide (availble in every hardware store) and potash by a double displacement reaction called caustification. Adding sulfuric acid will convert the potassum aluminate into potassium sulfate and aluminum hydroxide, which redissolves again in an access of the acid. The resulting clear solution contains the desired alum then.
But now you will have filter calcium sulfate
No, calcium hydroxide reacts with potassium carbonate to form potassium hydroxide and insoluble calcium carbonate which is easy to filter off by gravity filtration (of not too concentrated solutions were used), before aluminum is added to the potassium hydroxide solution to be dissolved in there.
@@experimental_chemistry Whoops, sorry I somehow thought you were making calcium aluminate. But still, I wouldn't call calcium carbonate easy to filter either. That stuff really likes clogging filters.
@@chnhakk
No, not when letting the precipitate chill for a while until the gelatenous mass breaks down into a fine crystalline powder, which is easy to filter off by gravity or using a glass frit while doing vacuum filtration. But don't forget to rinse the frit with dilute hydrochloric acid and distilled water afterwards to clean the pores for the next use.
his accent is so pure yet i understand him perfectly. such a soothing voice
I'm an idiot, but science fascinates me. This was fun to watch even though most of it was way beyond my skill set. Great video!
youd be surprised how many idiots go on to do things regardless, take the presidency for example
Scientists are just idiots that are curious about science.
Thanks!
@timothynelson6918
Beyond your skill set?
You can't boil water??
@@troywhite6039 Americans don't drink tea for a reason
That's very interesting! I'm curious to see how big you get that one crystal.
me too ? um would be cryioys about the electrical propertys of such crystals ? i mainly use quartz crystals been tinkering with . humm
Yellow chemistry..what a way to start my day off!! Good work!
Thank you!
Sulfuric acid: He gets it from a car battery.
And I instantly know he's not living in north America. Fun fact: While in north America Sulfuric acid drain cleaner is pretty common, you'll never find it at all in Europe! Here there's only alkaline drain cleaner made of concentrated sodium or potassium hydroxide! So in north America it's so much simpler to get concentrated sulfuric acid as an amateur! European amateur chemists struggle with that 😅
And while it's an inconvenience for us knowing chemistry, I absolutely understand the reason concerning normal people: You don't want to give a normal person the same product, just different brands, with concentrated acid and base in each other. People are... People... So they'll mix them. No matter how many warnings you put on the products, they will do it!
So someone decided which one is better. Base saponifies any proteins, especially hair. The main reason for most plugged drains. Sulfuric acid does catalyze hydrolization, but that's way slower. So base it is 😅
I still regret pasding up 3 liter bottles of sulfuric acid based drain cleaner I found in a hardware store a few years ago. It was so weird seeing it in there, given that I live in eastern Europe, and as you said, it is extremely unlikely to find acid based drain cleaner
You comment is hard to read, maybe it's me. My guess is you are from Europe. Well hear in the US you still can find batteries with sulfuric acid, but yes it is easier to buy it as a drain cleaner. As far as people go...there are some real dumb ones and some smart ones...what happens when you mix them together, same thing you get a reaction. Most Americans have so many dangerous chemicals under their sink if mixed. Perfect example bleach and amonia, both household cleaners but a deadly mix. Back in the day there were more votile chemicals under the sink than today, probally to many kids dying from poisoning too. Some people just dont get the education needed to stay safe.
It is by far always better to not mix chemicals you dont know about or buy organic cleaners instead. 😊
8:11 "pamiętaj chemiku młody kwas zawsze wlewaj do wody"
pamiętaj chemiku zawczasu, zawsze wlewaj wodę do kwasu
we have good saying in croatian, putting water into acid is VUK (voda u kiselinu)
VUK - wolf (dangerous animal)
Voda - h2o,
U - (to put something in, into)
Kiselina - acid
pozdrowienia dla polskich braci
“AAA” - always add acid. Is how I was taught to remember.
@@19MadMatt72 the creator is polish so i write in polish bc its a polish chemistry poem
I love videos that show me how to acquire the once basic chemistry set components.
Ech skoro już robiłeś potaż z drewna, to trzeba było drugą część ałunu też pełnym trybie DIY - z gliny, metodą prof. Stanisława Bretsznajdera :)
Ciekawy pomysł, pewnie kiedyś go wypróbuje :)
Very educational video and hilarious 😂 at the same time !! Thankx
It was super hilarioys! Omgoodness ... Some parts were just soooo funny. Lol
I remember doing this in College and it was so cool
Very interesting project, finally something I can do at home, great! 😎
Ohmygoodness I love the "cute lil fella" so much!!! 😻😻😻 Tuxedo cats are among my very favorite kitties. ♥️
Couldn't you use the amphoteric nature of aluminum to dissolve it directly in the wood ash solution, then dope the solution out with a really easy sulfate source like Epsom salts?
Isn't that seeding?
Great video .. I appreciate the time you spent making it n documenting the process/procedure. Great job!
Waiting for drops to fall when filtering things, can relate.
I found it interesting that the solution had to remain at a constant rather than be buried like some methods of growing crystals calls for of which these steps that were emplioyed all viable in that process also. Good job.
This one was GENIUS! Thank you so much for everything.
I think you're doing it great. one tip to do it even better is to place a smaller pad of wood under the blocks you chop so you can dig a hole in your patio bricks and plant a tree to chop down later.
You should add conc. sulphuric acid gradually to water - never pour water onto acid as this will generate steam causing it to splatter!
great video man!
Who knew that Rolf from Edd, Edd, and Eddy would grow up to do chemistry? :P
🤣😂😁
This was pretty cool! Awesome results bro ✌🏼
I've seen big commercial filters, like the ones used to make maple syrup.. that use big rolls or sheets of filter paper like that.
1:05 Sanepid lubi to
Given that both potassium hydroxide and aluminium react with copper sulphate to create the respective sulphates, is it feasable to do this without any sulphuric acid?
How do you get big Optical great crystals of this substance?
You would have to grow its crystal the way I showed in the video but much slower and in a better controlled environment
@@Amateur.Chemistry if you can achieve that, then you will be a rich man, pal. Google search for Optical great doped KCrSO4 crystals or KTiOPO4, hack even the KAlSO4 has intresting Laser properties. If you go down that rabbit hole😂
4:00 can you imagine being sleepy and accidentally mixing plant "creatine" into a drink instead of whats supposed to be in there?
Any update on the alum crystal growth?
Aluminum comes with an oxide layer. Expect a rapid reaction once enough acid cuts through it.
I think that solution suddenly got cloudy at the point there was just enough reactants of each specie molecule-to-molecule (stoichiometrically)
Can I ask why you (and others I have seen) only choose a quick pour-through form of washing the ash initially?
Is it to obtain only the most water soluble aspects and avoid other impurities?
This must be it - since surely a substance would normally be mixed with hot water and stirred - then filtered.
At some point, can you do a simplified version of this for kids. Maybe using alum - which wr can get at the grocery store? Thanks so much. This is an awesome! video
This is so cool! i love it
You washed the charcoal? Or did you charcoal filtered some water?
Grow malachite crystals next!
What's that little spinny thing you're using to agitate while heating? Thats awesome
Electric motor under hotplate. One little bar magnet in beaker. Magnet in breaker must be coated in something that will NOT react with solution.
They are called Stirrers
I understand that it isnt in the spirit of the experiment, but aluminum sulphate can be bought as a soil acidifier for changing the color of some pH sensitive plants, such as hydrangeas.
potassium alum melts pretty much at the boiling point of water. i wonder if filtration can be avoided by just mixing potassium sulfate with all that mess and just heating it up. curious if liquid alum will just flow down, keeping the precipitate out
You can also start with alum, which is available in most grocery stores in the spice section.
and potash which is sold at any gardening section
I remember as a kid seeing a classic cartoon like bugs bunny or something. In it, as a prank to someone in the cartoon he got a spoonful of white powder out of a container that said ALUM. Stuck it in the guys mouth and it made his mouth like retract in like instant cotton mouth or something. Years later I saw it as an ingredient in grocery stores where spices are. Don’t see it any more but always remembered that cartoon.
Seems like another bad idea type challenge that kids would try now a day. lol
@Amateur Chemistry If you´re interested I can tell you a way I found to purify and extract the potassium from wood, plant and vegetable ashes as pure potassium carbonate, which is better than just leaching all the potassium salts from them.
Well I’m interested in knowing.
@@kerrimtthefrog1001 Oh, really? Alright! This is how it goes:
Step 1: Treat the ash solution with calcium chloride to precipitate calcium carbonate and other anions that form insoluble calcium salts and then filter the mixture and save the filtrate.
Step 2: If there is any excess of calcium chloride in the solution, just add oxalic acid / sulfuric acid / potassium or sodium oxalates or sulfates until no more precipitate is formed and then filter the mixture and save the filtrate.
Step 3: Boil the solution to concentrate it until crystals start to appear and then allow it to cool to room temperature. After that, add the minimal amount of water to redissolve any crystals that may still present.
Step 4: Prepare a saturated solution of sodium bitartrate a.k.a. sodium hydrogen tartrate by reacting sodium hydroxide, carbonate or bicarbonate with tartaric acid in the right ratio and then boil the solution to concentrate it until crystals start to form.
Step 5: Mix the saturated solution of sodium bitartarate with the saturated solution of impure potassium chloride to precipitate potassium bitartrate a.k.a. potassium hydrogen tartrate. If you want, you can put the mixture in an ice bath or in a freezer to squeeze a little bit more yield.
Step 6: Filter the crystalline precipitate and wash it a few times with ice cold water and ethanol, and then let it dry.
Step 7: Heat the dry potassium bitartrate in a glass container like a test tube or a round bottom flask, for example, up to more or less 200 ºC until no more water and other fumes are released. It is going to char and get black, but that is to be expected. After allowing the solid to cool to room temperature, extract to resulting potassium carbonate with water and filter the solution to remove the black byproducts.
Step 8: Evaporate the solution and you´ll have high purity potassium carbonate.
A small note, these crystals can become ugly and white with air humidity even when lacquered. Best you keep them with some drying agent like silica gel. You can add copper sulfate to tint them a very beautiful blue, I guess food colouring might also work, but I am not sure.
Carbon is fun
Why can't we use Na instead of K? Will not cristalize?
09:54 You can't fool me, I know corn when I see it.
... my apologies, I didn't notice Jonathan Davis, this was clearly Korn.
Have you considered drying your chemicals with some anhydrous water?
How do you remove the fishing line?
You unfortunately can't do it without destroying the crystal, but clear fisning line is almost invisible so this isn't too much of a problem
yes. something i can do! :) yayy! :D Thanks bro.
It's a very good chance for true potassium and fructose gas I think it was the fiscal year of my life I remember it was in my experience as a young man I was amazed of different kinds of Crystals which could be used in gas states essentially have a carbon substrate that forms autonomously in liquid state and added higher temperatures this is a Tallow flow crystal clear glaze and steel stainless steel coating is a heat resistant stainless with the surface densities high enough to make defense of corrosion
Soda Ash has a pathway to crystal light in L E D substantial amounts of light emitting
9:16 The brown impurity is probably iron from the aluminum foil (typically contains 5%).
That was pretty cool
molto bello e, come sempre, interessante
Alum is a common baking ingredient. It sells for around $35 USD for a kilo.
Looks easy enough.
Can't get sulphuric acid. Not in EU.
Officer: Um, what ya got there?
Ohhh.. Those are wUd crythdulthz!!
Officer: Get the fuck out of the car.
THE CRYSTALS ARE CALLING!!
thank you, pretty cool
I knew that Sonics would help speed up the pathways itself a low level of Sonics that push pulls the fluid dynamics
sounds like a good investment
Alum is nonlonger used because potassium alum is a nurotoxin... Aluminum in general particulaly if breathed in ir eaten.
I was thinking this might be a fun project for my grandson until you started talking about sulfuric acid.
Are these hard?
1:37 _cursed chemistry lo intensifies_ 😹
I have try it myself.
That’s chemical distributor website you linked has some VERY illegal reagents.
I just watch these for the pronunciations, like it's an alien from another planet who somehow learned English but has no idea how the words are meant to sound. Funny! But sometimes the subtitles are really non-optional 😅
Yeah, I know that, I am constantly trying to improve as you can probably see if you watch some older videos but I still have a long way to go :)
@@Amateur.Chemistry You’re doing great! Watch more content in English and really absorb how words are spoken. I’m also a non-native speaker and we will probably never be perfect and that’s okay too!
fun fact: Potassium gets its name from 'potash', since theres a lot of 'Potash-ium' salts in it.
very nice!
Looks like a good candidate to make lenses for a high power laser..
Lol why does that giant piece of filter paper exist? I mean I get you an make your own filters, but how expensive are filters compared to making your own 🤔 😂 Great video too, I'm going to try this one. Ty for this one. 👍👍
Forgot to mention, great crystals too! Can't wait to see how it looks in the future 👌
When I burned wood, I was told I have a very nice Ash!
4:06 mistborn gang where y'all at
Exquisite !!!
I ran an experiment for almost 1 year growing copper sulfate crystals. I got 1 thats almost the size of my fist!
We don't know where to find sulfuric acid
myslalem ze mowiles na poczatku mushroom chemistry i sie musialem upewnic XDD
I mean, wouldn't it be easier and cost effective to just dissolve sugar or table salt into water, then crys out the sugar or table salt on a washer tied to a string? I've made really clear ones before. Must admit though, this one is neater, and uses slightly more complex procedures. NVM now that I think about it, this is waaaay better for an amateur chemist.
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nice one .....
1:37 This scene is shocking every fiber in my body. I can taste it on my tongue and my nose feels the smell just thinking about it.
Mmm crystal
The shaving use is as a styptic.
So why not say how many grams of potassium sulfate to aluminum sulfate and make it simple for sombody to replicate that's also a beginner
I think he just showed us how the paper making process works 🤣
What about the lead dissolved in your car battery acid used to make your crystal. . . . Just don't suck on it I guess. . .
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You started talking about it being non-toxic but then you mentioned using battery acid. I hope you meant unused sulfuric acid used for batteries. Otherwise your non-toxic crystals will have toxic Lead. Please avoid using Lead acid.
The acid I used is completely free of lead because I distilled it, you can see that in the video about it
I can't imagine most people have a vacuum filter and good ventilation at home...
You can make the crystals without these things by working outdoors and using regular gravity filtration, I used these to make things go faster and safer :)
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The giant filter is for brewing giant coffee for giant monsters with narcolepsy.
Tbh probably tastes better than green apple protein.
3:22 Sam Hyde lumberjacking inexplicably.
I would not recommend anyone to try it, but Alum can stop a bleed in a pinch but it hurts as ..