Elemental Extractions #0: Introduction
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- Опубліковано 7 лип 2024
- The triumphant return!
I've got a new video camera and an idea for a new series of videos: Elemental Extractions, in which I prepare pure elements from their compounds using chemistry.
Let me know in the comments what direction you think I should take future videos. Should I include videos where there isn't a lot of chemistry, like for the noble gases? Should I have a video for an element that purely goes over OTC sources for it, like for lithium? Or should I stick to elements where I can actually do chemistry?
If you're interested in my periodic table display, see my video on it and my series of blog posts:
• Element Display
thehomescientist.blogspot.com/... - Наука та технологія
I feel that whether it is an extraction or a "source" video I'll still think it's super interesting. I'm glad to hear you're coming back to making videos!
Glad to have you back!
As for the "gaps" in your series, the elements that don't fit with your "elemental extractions" idea, perhaps you should just leave them out for later, and then talk about their natural sources and how they're isolated from there, and then do the opposite of what you would do usually : rather than making the element from a compound, show its reactivity by making some reaction from the pure element. (except for noble gases, obviously...)
But I am definitely looking forwards to all that!
I wouldn't mind a bit of both. Obviously the chemistry would be most interesting but seeing you have apart a battery to get lithium or a catalytic converter to get platinum would be pretty neat as well.
Love the idea for the new series, and personally I'd love to see extracting from compounds and salvaging from everyday items. There's something very gratifying about being able to pull off a reaction with nothing but consumer goods; proper reagents almost feel like cheating.
Really, I'd like to see the complete table, though for element classes where you don't have much more than, "here's where you can order some, here's a bit about it," maybe do as others more clever than I have suggested and combine the class into a single video.
It's great to have you back!
Smaller talk is a fantastic and creative use of posts! Good job!
I owuld love to hear about all the elements even if they do not include extractions. Also, more about that display you got.
+BrownBessOwner Check the description for more information that you ever wanted on the display!
This is going to be such a good series! Include all of the extractions and how you got the elements! I'm glad your back!!
I'm glad I'm not the only one who wants a sample of each element.Within reason that is
Glad you're back in action. I do not mind having videos dedicated to OTC elements such as Zinc, or Noble gas elements. As long as you primarily focus on chemical extractions while throwing in an outlier (disinteresting video) I will be content. Can't wait to see what you have to say about potassium!
+Redox Alchemist Did you see NurdRage's video on potassium a while back? I've had some success with that and am currently working on improving it. It's really astonishing that it actually works. Thanks for the feedback!
I think a mixture of the two sounds perfect!
a little of both sounds good, even if there's little to no chemistry it's interesting to see where things are in every day products or stuff you can get at the store
+steubens7 agreed :D
Glad to see you back!
Wow! Fantastic display, so glad you are doing an extraction series. I hope you cover all the elements as best you can and the best ways to display/preserve them. I've started to do exactly the same and hope to learn chemistry as I go....(oh dear !) but I want to make a huge tabletop inlay and sit my wife at the plutonium end! Good luck. Looking forward to the next video.
+Dud Talbot I'll do what I can! The helium video is taking a lot longer than I expected, but new videos will come out eventually. I'm eager to get to the more interesting ones. Good luck with your display, and watch out for that radioactivity!
Glad you're back.
This seems awesome! Do whatever you want, I just think it's great your back!
I think you could do extractions/how to get videos on particular elements ex: cooper, chlorine, iron... and a more general video on how and where some elements are used/found ex: nobel gases, some alkaly metals. I'm really looking forward for this series!
You're back! ^.^
Anyway, for OTC stuff, it might be interesting to make a video about how they're made industrially. I mean, it's not quite obvious how you'd go about separating noble gasses - backwards distillation? - separating ones with very low boiling points would still be hard. Also, I understand that some metals (like titanium) are difficult and costly to extract from ore.
Purification would also be interesting.
Is this reallife? You`re back ? And then the first thing you do is announce such an awesome series?!
strangly after a long time without watching your videos, I rewatched a few last week-end, and was wondering where you where gone.
Even hoping you didn't killed yourself in an experiment.
Coincidentally you just reappear today! Glad to see you back.
As for your extractions, for sure include them all, some chemicals my not be extracable per say but still have interesting properties and/or history that could be told. Maybe ad something like [chem] or [no-chem] in title for those who wants to filter?
I really love your element display! Nice work. I am also looking forward to your future videos. I'm sure they will be interesting whatever you do.
This seems like it might be an interesting series to get into chemistry. I'd appreciate if you could make a very basic "what is chemistry?" and more importantly a "basic lab safety overview". While there are lots of videos like this out there, many people I know, whom I'd like to lure into watching this series of yours would watch such videos from the same person as the series they're supposed to watch but wouldn't bother searching them on their own.
Hey, I have a copy of Theodore Gray's The Elements book! It's a really cool book, especially in how it provides a few sample elements and the backgrounds and uses of the various elements.
Going into the new series, I'm definitely interested in seeing how you extract certain elements or even how you would obtain it in situations like the lithium in the battery. Also, it would be interesting if you could include some examples of how the elements may be used in their raw form (when applicable), some chemical reactions that can be produced using them, some info on common compounds that could be made [such as how gold and silver make electrum, or how copper and nickel may form cupronickel, a highly copper but silvery and and resistent alloy], and any other pertinent facts regarding the elements.
all of the above. Finding sources of pure elements is as useful as ways to purify them from compounds or mixtures.
I would really like to hear more about your collection., and also on your philosophy of elment collection as a hobby. Your videos have been quite interesting so far, so i trust your judgement on further content.
Welcome back
Cheers
I'd like to see both the 'extracted' and the 'purchased' element videos :-)
A few comments. Firstly, your element display is looking great! I remember when you started it. The copper sample is gorgeous.
Secondly, great idea for a series. Apart from periodicvideos, I am not aware of anyone systematically covering the elements. Your H video is a great start.
Thirdly, your question about what emphasis your videos have -- I say, follow your interest. There are different styles of element collecting -- some after pure elements. Some with the elements in use. Some with the elements in common compounds. Some focus on elements in their native mineral form -- and so on. Your interest is similar to mine -- an interest in the element, but also an interest in the story behind each element --- its uses, its extraction, its characteristic properties and so on. I say that pulling a piece of lithium out of a battery is part of that story and belongs in your video series. In other words, let your videos follow the path you have paved with your collection.
My $0.02. Mostly I am glad to have you back making videos. :)
+j_sum1 j_sum1 Thanks very much! Your input is very valuable. This series is actually really great for me because it gets me thinking in depth about each element when I get to it, so I learn even more about them as I go. I was going to do one video covering all the noble gases, but I had a great idea for helium which I'll be testing this weekend. My copper sample is actually extremely pure 6N material given to me by a coworker that used to use it for semiconductor research. But you'll hear about that when I get to video #29!
+mrhomescientist
Hey. You have a lot to answer for. It was your thermite videos that got me hooked on this hobby!
I like the idea of where or how you obtained some of the materials. Like if you went to a particular store to buy certain supplies, maybe show what else the store was selling, because I can't imagine what a store would be like that sold these types of things. Obviously if you ordered everything off the internet and received it via mail, thats not too interesting, but if you drove to a particular rock quarry to obtain something then that might be interesting. Kinda like a school field trip.
Think you should do both, I really enjoy your videos so even if they're not chemistry related I will still enjoy videos on getting elements and etc from sources, maybe a guide or an explanation about it?
Welcome back! I look forward to more videos :D
I think your plan is great. Even if it has no extraction or Chemistry, just keep knowing a reputable place to get them would be nice to know. Like with your Zinc example, doing an experiment with zinc would be pretty cool.
I think you should include how you get every element. Whether it is purchased, recovered (i.e. Lithium) or purified/extracted. That said, it isn't terribly necessary to go into too much detail about the interesting facts about the elements because that is well covered in the periodic table of videos.
You should make videos about the elements that are easy and practical to extract first and progress to more complicated chemistry. Also include properties and uses of the elements. P.s- I have that book too. Looking forward to this series!
I subscribed not long ago after watching an older video where you made a successful furnace hot enough to melt aluminum cans, hoping you would make more. Happy to see this. Also, since you want feedback, I'd be specifically interested to know what items you used and how you extracted the pure element. Kind of like a DIY.
Oh hi! Welcome back :D
Awesome! I've been waiting for a new video from you!! I have that same book and I have thought about doing a series like this in the past. I plan on it but l just have to make sure I'm doing proper safety precautions. you should include the smaller videos like lithium from batteries and where you got the noble gases. btw that table is awesommmeeeeeeeee
Glad to see you back! Might be inspiration for me to resurface too...
+elementguy27 I hope so!
I vote chemistry and extraction. Cheers, Mark
awesome! I would love to hear about both
Definitely include videos on how you got samples that you didn't actually extract. Love the display, btw... I had a similar idea, but never did build it. Also... I have that same book! I take if you were inspired by Theodore Gray to start your own collection. I actually collected several coins made of the elements, I think metallium were the ones that created the coins. My personal favorite of those is the white phosphorous coin. I was lucky to get it, because soon after they stopped making them due to problems stamping the coin.
Anyway, looking forward to your new series!
+Guineh's Lab Yep, his website on the periodic table really sparked my interest in element collecting specifically and chemistry as a whole! Those coins are definitely very cool; I used to be a coin collector too!
Great idea. Both would be of interest. Bring on the Chemistry. Thank You.
yay omg your back so cool cant wait to see what your gunna do love your channel amazing.
Making the series complete would be best. In other words, if an element is obtainable, you should make a video about it (even if there's no chemistry). Maybe in every video, you can briefly list off a few alternate sources of the element. So while you can make phosphorus via chemistry, other collectors might be satisfied simply scraping the strike pads from match books. It's interesting to find out what household products have pure elements in them. Also, demonstrate the chemistry in a way that might be useful in a classroom (exact measurements, procedures, safety, etc.).
Great suggestions! I'll definitely incorporate some of that. I'm finalizing my ideas now and should be ready to start filming this weekend.
nice collection!
i'm trying to build mine up
I think both woul be great! I would love to hear where you got some of your Elements. it would be nice to know if you got yours from somewhere were I didn't think to look or whatever lol. Also it would be cool to know the extraction for some Elements again if I didn't think of it or didn't know about it. sharing information is what the Science Community is all about :) thanks for your videos keep up the good work
That element board needs to be able to play space invaders.
I would love to see where you get your pure elements to buy, and also how to safely extract pure elements from semi-everyday things.
Holy shit you're back!
Very cool hey nice work !! Well done :)
You could have a section at the end of a extraction video discussing one of the elements you couldn't extract. Possibly you could select one that is somehow related to the element in the video or related to one of the by products.
Great vids!
I just watched your vid again and I have to say that's a impressive little collection u got going on there great job well done, in terms of your next vids hmmm maybe show us some chemistry reactions using your elements or making some new elements or bit of both I don't mind really. I just love the education I get from these channels makes me brain tingle.
+jon hoyles Thank you very much! I look forward to starting the series this weekend.
Extraction from natural sources, like ores and rocks. I'd like to see the isolation of gases from the atmosphere, if that is possible, and maybe even the acquisition of helium from alpha decay.
the ones such as the lithium or the zinc you could show maybe how to zinc plate something or some other practical application same with the lithium, possibly how zinc forms a protective barrier when bolted to the hull of wood bottom vessels (family used to run a small fleet of longliners in Wa and Ak and changing the plates was a common maintenance item)
Awesome keep it up !
What I miss in a lot of video's doing home chemistry is the calculations and reaction equations clearly written out and logically build upon on the screen. It's really interesting for starting scientists to know exactly how the formula of a given reaction looks like.
+Jim I usually include those in either the description, my blog (linked in the description if the article exists), or in the video itself!
for me it would be amazing for a mixture of a factoid episode about what each element is together with some chemistry by producing it - alternatively one week chemistry experiment followed the next week by element factoids where recovery is not possible.
I would obviously love to see more chemistry than anything else but having a mix of videos would keep it interesting for everyone. And "source" videos or however you end up doing it would still be pretty interesting.
+kjpmi Thanks for the feedback! I like the idea of distinguishing "source" videos and "extraction" videos.
+mrhomescientist glad you're back :)
+kjpmi Thanks! Very glad to be in the lab again.
I would like to see extractions from which you can get the element or a byproduct is an element.
You can get helium from decaying uranium, thorium, and other alpha particle decaying elements.
Argon can be extracted from the air by fractional distillation of liquid air, or you can extract it from the air by reacting the nitrogen and oxygen with hot magnesium or calcium. Note that this is a lengthy process since only about .93% of the atmosphere is Argon. the other noble gasses don't have any interesting chemistry to produce them. The best Florine example i can think of is to scrape Teflon off of pans and decompose it in water to form HF from the COF2 left from the manufacturing process. Most of the Alkali and Alkaline metals have to extracted from electrolysis at a home chemistry level.
A fun chemistry you can do with gold is to dissolve it in iodine then extract it again which is cheaper than nitric acid and hydrochloric acid.
It would be interesting to see how you extract elements from minerals. Like Hg from cinnabar like in one of the Codys videos. Some historical alchemical processes of getting an elements and so on.
Definitely! I plan on doing something like that for copper. A lot of those industrial processes are pretty hard to do at the hobby level, unfortunately. I doubt I could do the Bayer and Hall-Héroult processes to make aluminum in my back yard!
In GVCS (global village construction set) project one of the machines they want to create will produce alluminum using Hall-Héroult process. It would be great to see how you do it in your back yard!
i suggest to extract the elements in iron ore such as manganese, iron, silica, and sulfur. These materials can be found in rocks containing iron ore.
Maybe the other people on here already know this stuff (I tend not to), but you could go over how the elements you sourced are actually collected at a non-hobby level.
for the elements you can't refine you should do still do a video on how to but maybe a bunch at a time like one an gases one on alkali metals
Welp, considering the fact that I don't own any chemestry stuff, I'm fine with just basic source videos.
Welcome back. *Why not do both?
Please I would Love to know how you got each elements.I think if you could tell an all round up about Specific elements propriety that would greatly improve your channel value. Also If you could tell about containment for collection would be awesome.
I Envy your collection; If I may add a wicked suggestion... RGB leds system so you can go further than class them form alcanlin,metalloids ect... you could generate an electronegativity table or... you se my idea :)
+R3fini Great ideas! I'm actually starting to plan Periodic Table 2.0 to commemorate discovering the last 4 elements (before the next row anyways), and I was going to use RGB LEDs for that. Definitely going to take a while to plan out though. I'm eagerly awaiting news of the names of the final four!
extreme extraction and fire
I’m a gardener diving into micro and macronutrients. I’m on the hunt to understand boron, copper, iron, magnesium, molybdenum, zinc, calcium, magnesium, nitrogen, potassium, phosphorus, sulfur and silicon. I’m wanting to do an experiment where I just add what a plant needs to its grow medium. I found each one of these elements, mentioned above, on a supplements website. Each and every element is sold separately in a 16 oz bottle. The only ingredients in these bottles are the single element and reverse osmosis water. The element in the bottle is measured by ppm (parts per million). Im Reaching out to you here, to ask if it’s posable for these elements to be stored in this condition? When I collect the ppm amount, in each bottle, I’ll attached it to this comment.
Those are almost certainly solutions of compounds of each element, rather than the pure element. Check the labels and see what they say, just to make sure the anions won't interfere with your experiments. Sounds interesting!
They are saying it's "Angstrom mineral" "100% Elemental Mineral".
www.angstrom-minerals.com.
I think including shorter videos that show where or how you got the elements you didn't extract would be interesting sometimes just finding them is a challenge. Perhaps use the most creative way of finding the elements.
I think, even though I know it will be alot more work, you should utilize both of your great ideas. As a high school student who lives chemistry and just science in general, I think that both ideas would make interesting videos for diffrent reasons.
+[Var] Shadow Thanks for the feedback!
+mrhomescientist no problen giving feedback on one of my favorite channels.
+[Var] Shadow Thank you for the compliment!
Haaaa perfect
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He has risen, hallelujah :D
do anything that you can get your hands on even if its not a lot of chemistry like zinc
I think ill get my popcorn
I can only say what I would like ..how about compare extraction methods ..and extract from maybe unlikely things ??
it would be interesting if you got some from ores, such as copper, silver, iron maybe uranium. all of their ores are relatively common
+Ash De Vos That's the plan for some of them! Especially once we get into the transition metals.
Hey just wanted to ask. how do you properly store lithium without it reacting to the elements of nature to quickly???
+Andria Ryder It's very difficult, since it reacts with air almost instantly. Inert gas would be the best solution, because it floats on any oil you might try to store it in! I'm looking into that for when we get to that video. I'll probably try to operate inside a glove bag with a steady flow of argon. Stay tuned!
Where did you get actinium and protactinium. I see there are vials on your shelf. Thorium, uranium and americium are easily available. I don't wonder about these. Do I also see a radium and francium vial?
+Anticonny All the elements from Po to Pa are represented by pieces of uranium ore. These exist in minute amounts as part of the uranium decay chain. It's about the best you can do for most of these. Thorium I plan on improving eventually but it likely still won't be the pure metal.
mrhomescientist
You can obtain thorium oxide from old gas mantles. This can be reduced with calcium metal.
+Anticonny Far easier said than done!
Show us how to get technetium
I remember that ruthenium
Can you please make a video about how to extract sodium from sodium hydroxide? Thanks.
+harsowutaq I think you ust melt it and electrolyze the molten NaOH
Can you show how to make red phosphorus from Ca3(PO4)2 ?
+Janeczek Kr maybe getting elemental I2 as well. Especially in the same video!
+99Chemicals Iodine is easy. Phosphorus is much harder, but doable. I've never done it but I've seen others have success. Each will be treated in their own video, in the spirit of the series. Those elements aren't really even related to each other!
+mrhomescientist You missed the joke. Both are used in the HI+P meth making procedure which is likely why janeczek wants it.
I'm in one IRC channel and people come in pretty often asking about getting those chems. They usually admit later on they intend to make meth.
+99Chemicals I think it's a bit of a leap to say that just because he asked about phosphorous, he must be making meth. P is very useful for a number of reactions, and interesting as an element in itself. I'd very much like to try the isolation from phosphate when we get to that point in the series.
Im not making meth :P
Please show us how to separate fairly pure Argon from air
+Dönci Terényi Since argon makes up less than 1% of air, that would be pretty impractical. I bought my argon from my local AirGas branch - once you buy the cylinder, refilling it is very cheap.
Show how to obtain as many as possible.
What, you're not going to isolate fluorine because its too dangerous?! That almost sounds like good sense and having your priorities in order, we can't have that!
I've always wondered, why aren't the alkaline metals at the right of the table, and why isn't helium above beryllium? If I get a display I'd lay it out like that
+Connor Steppie The table is arranged in order of increasing atomic number, and correspondingly increasing number of electrons. The elements at the far left (alkali metals) have one valence electron, the next group over has 2 (alkaline earths), (ignoring the transition metals) the boron group has 3, all the way to the right where the noble gases have a full outer shell of 8. Helium is on the right because, even though it has two valence electrons, that is a full shell so its properties are more similar to the other noble gases. The vertical groups all share similar properties, so that in part governs the shape of the table. Hydrogen doesn't really fit anywhere very well, so it's placed on the top left to balance helium's placement!
mrhomescientist I see now.
I generally think of hydrogen as more of a halogen because it just needs one more electron, like halogens. But then it also has one electron, like alkaline metals. Could this be the chemistry version of the half full/empty glass?
do everything
extractions extractions extractions extractions
I would say stick to the extractions.
2:37 I thought it went Helium, Neon, Argon and Krypton.
Since when was So-on an element?
+loɹʇuoɔ soɐɥɔ How very literal of you.
If I were you, I'd explain the methods of purifying an element at a professional scale if it is impossible for a simple enthusiast to do since that would nevertheless make for an interesting episode...
get all the radioactive
include every thing
What about someone, like me, who doesn't have knowledge about elements? Where can I start.
+Di Lung Move it Ya Fool! The periodicvideos channel has really great videos on every element, plus lots of other cool stuff. What sparked my interest, though, was Throdore Gray's website on the periodic table coffee table. He has articles on every element and tons of amazing pictures of his huge collection of samples.
How can you have francium?
+sten malva You can't. The best you can do is have a sample of uranium ore to represent it - at a given time, there are probably one or two atoms of Fr in the ore due to uranium's decay chain. I use uranium ore to represent many elements in that area of the table.
+mrhomescientist Okay, that explains.
Can you make me some sunscreen out of zinc?
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+Andrew Hornsey Congratulations.
Do real chemistry vids. Anyone can buy a smoke detector and make a video saying "look, I bought some americium!" I'd like to see vids of you isolating pure elements from common sources
I do not belive that you have francium and florine on that board
+TheZabbiemaster Correct. They are represented by uranium ore (which contains a couple atoms of Fr at a given time from U's decay chain) and Teflon (which is mostly F by weight).
still tough, love to see the reaction between the most electronegative compounds... my university refuses to look into it, but its for science i said, they didnt listen.