Mercury from cinnabar
Вставка
- Опубліковано 8 жов 2016
- using a wet method to extract mercury metal from cinnabar- its raw material. we used a solution of sodium hydroxide and elemental sulfur adding the cinnabar when it had all dissolved and then adding aluminium metal to precipitate the mercury metal.
this and separated from the crud and was washed cleaning it up to shiny metal. the yield was nearly 38g of clean product.
Right, now splash it onto Phosphophilite and some gold…
It’s a HnK reference, in case anyone’s curious…
HnK?
@@hoon_sol Houseki no Kuni, a manga really worth checking out
Yeah and also attach some agata, lapis lazuli and some pearls... and don't forget to make it suffer ;)
And then leave it alone for 10,000 years
Fun Fact: That's how they make the color "Vermilion".. Its Kind of a deep Red.. So yeah, Cinnabar is what they use to make "Vermilion" Paints in the *Historic Era*
leah villar yeah I know. It’s pigment in many paints and dye of times past.
@@AllChemystery Hello, how is the formula in which they make cochineal?
@@salkmawlod5057 cochineal comes from a species of beetle!
"If you look long enough into the mercury the mercury begins to look back through you." -Friedrich Nietzsche. Just seen reflection of your phone in mercury droplet.
A quote from Nietzsche... but I'm sure you know the difference between "seen" and "saw" ...
i am looking at you with deep curiosity
@@jmlikesplants
The proper word/sentence structure should be, "I done seen your reflection".
Germany is great.
@@jmlikesplants kya bana rahy ha
Your channel seems pretty good. Hopefully it becomes popular like NileRed
Houseki no kuni?
Senpai Ku
Yep... gotta know all about the gems after all. 😂
me too lol
o no
I’ve been called out.
One could try replacing aluminium with tin here as it should work as well.
It should dissolve into alkaline solution probably without producing much hydrogen.
So because of the smaller difference in electrochemical potential between tin and mercury a more gentle/slower reaction is to be expected, which might be beneficial.
I found the vigorous reaction with aluminium powder quite concerning as the mist formed might carry away some mercury with it. Maybe some aluminium is lost in the process while producing hydrogen and hydrogen sulfide?
How long did you rinse the amalgam to consume all the aluminum? I soaked in 10% HCl for two days and it’s still bubbling and hardly anything left. :-( Hg not supposed to be soluble in HCl, so the small amount must mean I didn’t hit endpoint with the Al. Do I keep adding aluminum until no more bubbling? Appreciate your help...
**So, if you start out with relatively pure cinnabar, and provided you are efficient in your extraction technique, you can expect that approx 75% of the mass/weight of the cinnabar will be mercury?** That's really good, especially when compared with extractions of other pure elements from naturally occuring minerals.
It helps that mercury is one of the densest non-radioactive metals. Because of the density, mercury will usually give the majority of the mass of any compound that contains large quantities of it.
got a calculated ~90% yield which is really good for such a crude technique without any distillation, but the purity is still questionable
May I know what this person does and what materials are used
Can you imagine what ancient alchemists thought ..when they bumped into reactions (and results) like this?
No wonder Mercury was so revered around the world
Thank you work gorgeous. The question what proportion density after the completion of the work?
I had to actually see the extraction
Process after playing Days Gone piqued my interest.
Can you: put crushed cinnabar into nitric acid solution, then place copper strips into the solution to plate the copper with the mercury? I’m not a chemist, but that’s how you’d collect mercury from a nitric acid solution used to get gold from mercury/gold amalgam. Just wondering.
Very cool video btw. We deal with a lot of cinnabar around here in the old mine dumps.
hello can you help me i want to convert silver mercury to red mercury
Cool video, did you obtain the cinnabar from a natural source or did you buy it? :)
i bought it. there is a chinese seller on ebay who sells this in various amounts upto 500g and lots of other geology and entomology samples.
Will Mercury(II) oxide work in this reaction? Thanks! 👍
experiments turns into asmr
and your inside not in fume hood just chilling in your house like your crazy man!
That's pretty slick
You should triple distil the mercury for high purity. I did it using standard glass apparatus under an aspirator vacuum. This is a dangerous process though.
Aditya Varma I was planning on that but want to do a couple more runs of this to make it worthwhile- I only have 24 glass so it would need to be a decent amount of Hg to run the risks
You make great videos, you should invest in some better equipment tho. nic work
Aditya Varma I actually have a fairly nice collection of glassware and other useful equipment but in a lot of my videos I don't really need to use them.
Wouldn't you release Hg into the drain if you use an aspirator for vacuun? Or was there a trap between?
I can't believe you did it without fumehood.
GOD bless
i did have a respirator capable of stopping H2S and Hg vapours and it was quite windy outside but i would have preferred to have a fume hood.
I AM Diablo
Pardon me for my assumption.
GOD bless
What is the time period for the appearance of mercury * For science interactions with suspended aluminum *
Please make video in Hindi thanks
Some fumes just came thru my phone lol
Is it a sorte of displacement methode... where... the aluminium take the place of the mercury in the Aq solutions and the mercury detached from it oxide to be in it pure form??
why is cinnabar smelted without roasting?answer please
Fascinating
I’m curious about the reaction, Al in NaOH generates hydrogen anyway, does this use the nascent hydrogen effect? That is monotomic hydrogen is released at the molecular level and that has enough energy to separate the mercury from the sulphur. If this is the case, a similar effect might be achieved with cinnebar in a hydrochloric acid and zinc reaction.
I’m not sure about adding sulphur at the start.
Creates hydrogen sulfide
do yoou have to heat this solution at any time? also is it exothermic?
days gone devs really did they're homework
Wouldn’t hearing it up and distilling the mercury vapor do the same ?
how to dispose of chemicals??
Make a solid Mercury lingim and worship Lord Shiva/Shakti
We traditionally do that with simply Dry distillartion of Powdered Cinnebar. You get quality mercury from that. We don’t even use glass pots , we use clay pots. The final product of mercury is so pure that its used in medicines. For internal use.
Can you explain what type of medicine?
@@Feelbetterfungi almost all Ayurvedic medicines have mercury and sulphur in it. Specifically Medicines used in Pediatrics.
Can you point to a video of the process
Link for procedure of extraction of Mercury from Cinnebar :- ua-cam.com/video/APZEnZNNCi4/v-deo.html
so mercury can only be obtained from cinnabar? and go thru all that process? or there are other options ??
violet erin yes but they include roasting the cinnabar with zinc or other metal and producing dangerous mercury vapours. This wet method got me around a 70/75% yield so it's not too bad. Other way is by using aqua regia but I don't have the specifics of that.
thank u sir
Can u do big volumes
@@AllChemystery couldn't you roast the cinnabar and let the sulfur react with oxygen and vaporize, and then just be left with mercury vapor?
so ehat are the side reactions? what does the aluminum become?
Chemistry majors in their dorms be like
What is the grey bowder that you added in solution
I've also seen mercury get cleaned with a wash cloth, al though the only pollutant was gold.
what is the purpose of using the sodium hydroxide and sulfur solution? why can't aluminum simply be added to an aqueous solution of cinnabar
the sodium hydroxide/sulfur forms polysulfide which is the reducing agent here. the cinnabar is insoluble in water and the mercury is trapped in the cinnabar( mercury II sulfide) so adding Al to a cinnabar suspension will not really do anything.
@@AllChemystery could you treat it like a thermite reaction, by mixing aluminum powder with the mercury sulfide powder? and the aluminum would replace the mercury?
oh wait, you might as well have just heated it the other way...
Ye crud kya hota hai....is procedure ki reaction kya hai
I wondered how you prepared the polysulfide solution by just adding sulfur to sodium hydroxide solution. Well, sulfur disproportionates in alkaline solution to give sulfide and sulfite. Those can each react with more sulfur to form polysulfide and thiosulfate. Maybe oxygen is formed via reduction of hydroxide by sulfur, but I find this unlikely in regards to electrochemical potentials.
So you probably used a mixture of polysulfide and sulfite which maybe isn't ideal!?
You could have started with sodium sulfide to get a pure polysulfide solution.
That solution makes a fairly abundant supply of polysulfides and given long enough time, the polysulfides oxidize to form thiosulfate.--obviously not target product for getting mercury. I created sodium thiosulfate recently by making a very strong polysulfide solution using excess sulfur which will precipitate out once the solution is cooled. The remaining solution is diluted with distilled water (5x volume of polysulfides) and bubbled air oxidizes the solution over a matter of several days or longer.
My point being, in a very non-direct way, is that there is plenty of polysulfide(s) in solution for reacting with the cinnabar. I think NaOH & S are easier to find at local stores than sodium sulfide and this is just the quick and dirty route.--Maybe that's why he chose this method? I'm not criticizing your described method. I've just been spending way too much time trying to make sodium thiosulfate as efficiently as possible using the NaOH + S approach, so that's the only reason I'm even replying.
I believe the sulfites which form are low yielding and decompose to form sulfide/polysulfides/thiosulfate as SO2 & H2S are released during heating. SO2 being the leading factor for converting sulfite to thiosulfate.
That was cool so how did ancient people without access to aluminium?
They distill it. Very dangerous but ancient people don't give a s**t.
this mercury heat proof and what nitric acid proof
I hope, my friend, that you will show me how to color silver mercury and make it red, and thank you for your efforts.
Simo Azal Mercury cannot be made red. It’s a myth.
hi
can i ask you
are there method to obtain the solid mercury from liquid by heat and oil?
You'll have to freeze mercury to make it solid
yep, mercury is not solid at room temp, the people that say that they have made solid mercury at room temperature, have mixed other metals like tin into the mercury to make it solid.
i tried/ 3 times. probably mercury dissolves in waste. i failed(
I would like to ask you is the finished product a mutation of aluminum from its normal state in to a liquid normal mutational state? I'm not a chemist I dont folly get what you dissolved sheet aluminum unless it is what was transformed into a new liquid state I hit the like and subscribe button
what he's doing, is reacting the mercury sulfide (cinnabar) with other chemicals to remove the "sulfide" part, so all that's left is the "mercury" part of the mercury sulfide.
mercury is element number 80 on the periodic table of elements. its a metal, like iron or aluminum or copper. these are all different elements, they can't be turned into one another.
what he's doing, is he's reacting the aluminum with a chemical that has mercury in it, and the aluminum is replacing the mercury by binding to the chemical that was holding onto the mercury so the mercury falls free. and it settles on the bottom. it is NOT liquid aluminum, its a different element entirely, its mercury metal.
Why didnt you just heat the cinnabar at 400°F in a sealed container and distell off the Hg vapor?
Come on! That’s the easy way!
Here on Alchemystery we try and do things that are unique and often harder than the known usual methods...
several of my videos are first time the experiments and created compounds were shown on UA-cam!
Both distillation and this method are equally dangerous as this way released a lot of Hydrogen sulfide gas and distillation with Zinc granules would potentially release neurotoxic Mercury vapour.
@@AllChemystery either way it's gonna make vapors, just pick the one you prefer.
You’d have to use an iron retort.
How can I do the method you said? Can you advise me?
आप सब दोस्तों मित्रों से हाथ जोड़कर निवेदन है कि आप मेरा यूटयूब चैनल जरूर *सबसक्राइब करें व BELL 🔔 आइकान* पर क्लिक करें।
ua-cam.com/channels/uE-2Pvo1KyNMOB9DdEpFtw.html
यहाँ पर मैं हर बीमारी के संबंध में परीक्षित योग है डालता हूँ। बस आपके सहयोग की जरूरत है। आशा है आप मुझे निराश नहीं करेंगे। धन्यावाद।
that dalek!!!
Saw cinnamon and was like WTF
its cinnabar, but I also noticed the similarities.
Sir how do you know to polish silver on steel pot
You're gonna need some steel beams and jet fuel
i would be very interested to know how pre-Columbian people of the Americas mined and processed cinnabar into mercury, and why?
Hello I have this kind of stone how is buy for this
Ise kon kharita hai or kitne ki bikti hai
Konsa metl kitna hai bataya karo ❤️
Hi, do you have an email where I can write you? Thanks! Fabio
my problem is to get rid of the 6kg of mercury I have. I thought of reacting mercury and sulphur in a lapidary tumbler. I think it will get warm. Unfortunatly the black form of mercury sulphide is made and not the cinnabar red colour
I’d buy it for 10 bucks per kg, if you just want it gone
@@sashasoule4585 Where do you live?
i can buy it) i live in Europe. i need pure mercury or oxide. any quantify
Hello sir. How we can make it invisible
life hack you really think that is actually possible?
Yeah if I were gonna do this, I'd do it in a fume hood. I am NOT messing with hydrogen sulfide ☠️☠️☠️
I was curious I thought Mercury is very toxic what will you do with the toxic Mercury now how could it ever be disposed of safely and what about the rest of the chemical solution?
Stacey Shuman Mercury is toxic and the cleanup was tedious, there’s about 2l of waste water/ solids. it’s in a safe storage place. I will treat it eventually but much of the Mercury was precipitated so there’s probably only a little contamination.
The solution can be treated to recover more metallic mercury if containing dissolved mercury salts or oxide.
Does this mercury fake? Please answer
@@AllChemystery couldn't you just react the waste mercury with sulfur and turn it right back into its ore and leave it on the ground?
Hi,How to increuse the density of mercury
You can’t! It’s gonna stay solid
at 13.6g Cm/3 !!!
It’s highly dense already!!
Hello im a sutent of electric enginier and im very interstet in chemical reacktions and this kind of things, so im asking if u have the net ionic ecuation
dr. stone?
Oka OkaLoid 10 billion percent
4:24 so that's it? You are breathing mercury?
💖💖
Mercury is a recipe to stop on fir
Can you use aluminium hydroxide or aluminium oxide powder for this reaction, rather than Al metal powder, as that would make it a lot less expensive 😁
coolcat_vlogs no it needs the actual metal to proceed.
@@AllChemystery Damn I was worried that might've been the case. Thank you for letting me know 👍
Is there any other metal that could be cheaper to use?
@@coolcat_vlogs69 aluminum is literally the cheapest metal around, with the exception of iron.
What is the grey bowder that you added
Sir how can you silver polish on steel utensils .upload please video sir
Farukh Agwan what’s that got to do with this video? And what exactly are you talking about? Polish silver? Easy! Use toothpaste and a fine cloth and buff with leather.
Sir you want video silver polish on steel please make video
fume hood!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you can make one super super easy and cheep
He's making mercury out of rocks, I don't think he needs encouragement from you of how easy anything is.
Hmm, I've tried this with no success(added Al little by little and it dissolved but no Hg ever formed). Maybe one day I shall try again
It’s highly likely you got fake cinnabar in that case. It’s been discovered that Chinese eBay sellers have sold it before. Did you notice any Sulfide smell? It’s a good indicator that it’s working. And you do need quite a bit of Aluminium too.
@@AllChemystery I did all the sequence you said. But I didn't get the result.
I am really frustrated, won't the aluminium form an amalgam with the mercury?
it does to begin with but then the Al part of the alloy is consumed in the HCl washings leaving the plain Hg behind.
Potassium permanganate will also work as a preliminary washing step. You can see the telltale amalgam in the form of an ash looking substance that creeps up the Al plate. It just needs to be agitated in the acid for a while until no more bubbling is seen and then for an extra hour to be certain.
We then thoroughly wash it in distilled water. Why frustrated? Are you having problems?
So you probably need to filter the solution and then transfer the solids in to HCl?
Problems? Yeah of course mental ones.... just kidding :). Ok I just wanted to try that if i found myself some cinnabar and i had a second thought of how the process works. What if you put some copper so it won't react with NaOH? How can you remove that from the mercury? Oh btw thanks for the video be safe!
For a comprehensive look at the process i used read here: www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=18162&page=2#pid303711 it has alot of information on the process.
In this attempt i basically poured off as much of the waste as possible and added water -for about 3 times to collect up the metal with a syringe. you could filter it through cotton wool but losses would be high for the small amount you had.
another method which uses copper is to dissolve the cinnabar into Aqua regia and precipitate it with copper.
Well, thank you very much! If I get some cinnabar in my hands i 'll try it. I believe the method that you showed is the safest of all.
ExplosiveAnyThing just be aware of the toxic H2S gas that is evolved and you should be fine. It is quite a lot when you add the Al powder.
0:15 Looks like orange juice!
Who is here from the "things found inside walls - and other hidden findings" group?
Does this mercury fake?? Or it is real mercury??
pshtiwan khidr is REAL
Can you make a mercury it's density 14.5 or 15.5 or more?
Like below video.....
ua-cam.com/video/7_yyGhan_T8/v-deo.html
Sahi hai
Hg3S2 + Al = Hg + AlS
Dr Stone Woo
اموزش جیوه قرمزم بزار
So the metallic color of mercury is due to aluminium which is needed in its extraction?
Anubhav Mohanty no
mercury is another metal like iron or copper, it is shiny because it is a metal, its a different element entirely.
Cinnabar can be mercury true 👍
Spicy Carrot Juice
Can you dye the Mercury to red or black color?
Haider Sabri no. It’s a metal
AllChemystery I saw in the net that someone did, as they said it’s Sb2Hg2O7, but it’s liquid like the mercury
you wearing a respirator? thats not soup dude....
Yep. I very certainly was...
I can imagine thesmell of rotten egg.
bab oy and times that by 50....
@@AllChemystery we carried a cargo back then with high level of hydrogen sulfide and it was not declared but through the smell alone we are already in doubt we used our basic tools to test and it destroyed our gas detector.man that was some experience. I would never forget how it smells. Good thing though we were not breathing it for long period and not too high level to cause some damage.
Easiest method getting mercury is distillation cinambar, but need build still.
My question is: how to get a colored mercury red. Black.?? I'm not talking about the myth but it's just a personal question.
what? if its not the myth then its nothing, the only "red mercury" is a myth, and a source of fake videos. you can't actually make red or black mercury. unless you react it wit other chemicals, but then it wont be mercury anymore, and wont be shiny.
Dr.stone
you have an iPhone
You say it stinks, not a good idea breathing it in, since your distilling mercury, the vapors of which are deadly.
It’s not actually being distilled it’s being precipitated. And it’s the hydrogen sulfide gas I’m talking about that stinks. It’s what evolves when I add the Aluminium. It’s also deadly in high concentrations.
M
BESINESS TECH A
M?
soo.... you should really not be able to smell it... why can you smell it ?
you smell it at first- it stinks bad,then if exposure is prolonged you
get olfactory fatigue which is what makes this gas killer. you think
that just because you cant smell it the air is OK. several gasses can do
this. I put a respirator on in the first minute. H2S gets on your skin
and hair and sticks there plus your clothing. its putrid.
I AM Diablo my point was that this should be done under a fumehood and not even outside if you ask me. You should not be able to smell this, then you are "to close" as far as I know.
I AM Diablo ترجمة بلعربى
টাহাসিন নোভা
Eeeee
what the fuck is cinnebar
nuclearthreat545 cinnabar is mercury self-identify. It is commonly found as the ore of mercury which is refined for the metal. It is also a pigment- vermilion red.
do you seriously not have any PPE on during mercuric oxide experiments and shit your gunna die very early thats scary there's some shit i wont fuck with in chemistry and thats one of them!
Really fake this
If you think so... but I assure you it’s not fake.