Turning Batteries into Purple Paint

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  • @swampmonkey420
    @swampmonkey420 6 місяців тому +150

    Favorite part of the week... when all the chem tubers release their weirdness on the world.

    • @lucazsy
      @lucazsy 6 місяців тому +6

      They are making the weekend great again.

    • @pleasuregaming2601
      @pleasuregaming2601 22 дні тому

      A much deserve weekend

  • @existenceisillusion6528
    @existenceisillusion6528 5 місяців тому +9

    5:30
    AC: "There doesn't seem to exist any simple trick to make to make all this go faster"
    Centrifuge: _EXISTS_

  • @Tyresio12
    @Tyresio12 6 місяців тому +48

    Good job! A couple of comments:
    - your MnO2 is heavily contaminated with iron (hence the yellowness here and there). To get rid of it, you set your pee-like solution's pH to ~6 IIRC, and start blowing air through it (aquarium pupm is enough). At this pH iron oxidizes to 3+ and precipitates as a hydroxide, the rest stays in solution. To colour shifts from yellow to faint pink, with an orange/brown susension.
    - the lumps created in a ball mill were due to moisture still present in your pigment. You should have ground it with a mortar, put the coarse powder back again to the oven, dry it properly, and then use ball mill.

  • @DaftyBoi412
    @DaftyBoi412 6 місяців тому +54

    I nearly chocked on my food from laughing when you turned on the vacume pump, whilst talking about how much it's been through, and a bunch of powder just shot out of it lmao... too funny.

  • @jimsvideos7201
    @jimsvideos7201 6 місяців тому +18

    For a new spatula 😅

  • @jaymzx0
    @jaymzx0 6 місяців тому +12

    Your friend made a gorgeous art piece!

  • @BRUXXUS
    @BRUXXUS 6 місяців тому +7

    I love your style of video so much! They always make me happy.
    That painting at the end is INCREDIBLE! I bet it's so satisfying to see all your work on this end up with a piece of art you can look at every day. :)

  • @goryao
    @goryao 6 місяців тому +16

    Try milling the pigment with an acid functional resin (the acrylic is a good one) dissolved in solvent! it will produce a very fine dispersion that will be 100x better than just mixing them ( source; used to work as inks and coatings chemist).

  • @Figulus
    @Figulus 6 місяців тому +7

    As an alternative to an acrylic binder, I hear that tempera can be easily made from egg yolk (and a few other ingredients), it being the predominant medium of choice until the Early Renaissance period.

  • @imikla
    @imikla 6 місяців тому +21

    I learned the same lesson, to use a plastic spatula instead of my beloved stainless steel spatula when harvesting manganese dioxide from carbon-zinc batteries.
    I loved that spatula. 😢

    • @aqdrobert
      @aqdrobert 5 місяців тому +4

      Weird Al recommended Spatula City for all your spatula needs.

    • @SanchoPanza-wg5xf
      @SanchoPanza-wg5xf 5 місяців тому +2

      @@aqdrobert "Buy nine spatulas, get the tenth one for just one penny!"

  • @WeebRemover4500
    @WeebRemover4500 6 місяців тому +4

    i nominate you to the top10 of youtube chemist accents
    chemforce and thoisoi are naturally on there as well.
    if you want to crush up some rock like material you can take a glass bottle with concave bottom, press it down on the target while moving the top of the bottle in a circular motion, this confuses the compound and it turns into a powder
    always crush it up a bit before trying to dry it out anyhow

  • @filipdereniowski9239
    @filipdereniowski9239 6 місяців тому +8

    For isolation MnO2 from battery paste you can:
    1. Wash paste with water and filter it (as you did)
    2. Add MnO2/C mixture to H2SO4 solution and then added H2O2 to dissolve MnO2
    3. Filter solution from carbon
    4. Precipitate Mn(OH)2 using NaOH
    5. Add H2O2 to oxidize Mn(OH)2 to MnO2

    • @-r-495
      @-r-495 6 місяців тому +1

      two reagents you mentioned have been regulated in a crass manner in the EU

    • @filipdereniowski9239
      @filipdereniowski9239 6 місяців тому +3

      ​@@-r-495 In Poland (where this youtuber live), 12% H2O2 and NaOH can be buy without any problem. H2SO4 can be buy as a drain cleaner (it is 95% sulfuric acid) in Internet shops

  • @laurdy
    @laurdy 6 місяців тому +9

    You can also produce MnSO4 from MnO2 by reacting with gaseous SO2

  • @andrews.4780
    @andrews.4780 6 місяців тому +8

    I love this color! I find it fascinating that this is the only other manganese compound that has a pretty purple besides potassium permanganate. However, the mineral rhodochrosite is made of magnesium carbonate and has a stunning magenta pinkish color. You should make a color chemistry series.

  • @Djbiohazard1991
    @Djbiohazard1991 6 місяців тому +4

    Shoutout to the Action! Never a true kludge without some of their stuff haha:') Enjoyed the video, thanks!

  • @KillianTwew
    @KillianTwew 6 місяців тому +5

    Ultrasonic cleaners are great for mixing and also separating stuff from paper such as from the tape

    • @KillianTwew
      @KillianTwew 6 місяців тому +2

      20:53 Lol what a quincidence

  • @jigilub
    @jigilub 6 місяців тому +9

    Love the Floating Sieve :) I hold my mini-vortex paint mixer to my version of your separator, I cannot express how satisfying it is to see the gravity filter work that fast.

  • @SciDOCMBC
    @SciDOCMBC 6 місяців тому +14

    Not only do you have a very pleasant way of presenting something, you also know how to incorporate extremely funny and amusing moments into your videos. In short, great video as usual. 👍

  • @elitearbor
    @elitearbor 6 місяців тому +5

    I always appreciate seeing these green[power], good for the environment projects! Returning batteries to their native habitat, all while making an interesting pigment? Excellent work.

  • @robertbeighter6336
    @robertbeighter6336 6 місяців тому +6

    From a non-science guy I love watching this sort of content, I particularly like your style, keep up the good work!

  • @WandaDominiak-px4dn
    @WandaDominiak-px4dn 6 місяців тому +4

    Perfect as usual

  • @chemicalmaster3267
    @chemicalmaster3267 6 місяців тому +8

    @Amateur Chemistry Another thing to watch out for, is the fact that some zinc-carbon batteries can also have ammonium chloride as the electrolyte and the manganese dioxide may also be contaminated with iron.

  • @JerzyDominiak-m1q
    @JerzyDominiak-m1q 6 місяців тому +7

    A wonderfully shown process !!!

  • @ObserwatorZyciaLasu
    @ObserwatorZyciaLasu 6 місяців тому +4

    7:07 - guuut nektarine :)))))

  • @Psychx_
    @Psychx_ 6 місяців тому +10

    KHSO5 can be bought in every hardware store as an oxygen treatment for swimming pools. Sometimes it's also called "pool shocker".

    • @GerManBearPig
      @GerManBearPig 6 місяців тому +5

      availability of "hardware store" chemicals depends a lot on in which country you live

  • @InternetFiend68
    @InternetFiend68 6 місяців тому +17

    You can also precipitate Mn(OH)2 using Naoh then filtering it and leaving it to dry in air, the Mn(OH)2 will convert into Mno2 in air. This method is much safer than producing a ton of chlorine and the final product is also more pure.

    • @lautaromorales2903
      @lautaromorales2903 6 місяців тому +2

      Also you can add sodium hydroxide to the bleach to reabsorb the chlorine gas and make more hypochlorite

    • @YunxiaoChu
      @YunxiaoChu 6 місяців тому

      Source?

    • @InternetFiend68
      @InternetFiend68 6 місяців тому

      @@YunxiaoChu I have tried it myself it works very well and the MnO2 is also brown in color i.e. More cleaner product.

    • @cleverskipper3866
      @cleverskipper3866 6 місяців тому +1

      Disproportion reaction resulting in NaCl and NaClO.

  • @snoowbrigade
    @snoowbrigade 6 місяців тому +6

    Awesome video, I have never seen this done before!

  • @GIRGHGH
    @GIRGHGH 6 місяців тому +3

    It always amazes me how seemingly easy it is to make molecular chlorine. Such a reactive chemical and you can get it just by mixing stuff together or putting electricity in salt water.

  • @aeriumsoft
    @aeriumsoft 6 місяців тому +4

    Quality is increasing dramatically epic

  • @bogdek4959
    @bogdek4959 6 місяців тому +8

    Mam nadzieję że w wakacje będzie więcej takich fajnych filmików.

  • @jamevianjackson4327
    @jamevianjackson4327 6 місяців тому +3

    Wonderful work here! I wonder how the color and texture would be different if you made the pigment using tetraethylammonium dihydrophosphate instead of the plain ammonium salt :0

  • @блиныкот
    @блиныкот 6 місяців тому +2

    Just a small note, I haven't watched the whole thing but heating the MnO2 suspension in the microwave oven somehow makes the particles stick together and making decantation/filtration extremely easy

  • @yungggdex2665
    @yungggdex2665 6 місяців тому +5

    Greetings from Germany, nice video!

  • @KasiaK1982
    @KasiaK1982 6 місяців тому +6

    Great idea 👍 Beautiful picture 😍

  • @IlusysSystems
    @IlusysSystems 6 місяців тому +5

    Y don't you get büchner funnel? they are great for stuff, that fucks up glass frits. Also they are relatively cheap, and IMO even better than glass frits, because you can just dump the content without painful scraping, so you get less losses.

  • @R-Tex.
    @R-Tex. 6 місяців тому +2

    Also, you can maybe try to heat the mamganese dioxide and carbon paste to 500-600°C to oxidise carbon to carbon dioxide. Although the manganese dioxide might also convert to manganese iii oxide... but I guess, it's worth a try!

  • @ArcaneCossack
    @ArcaneCossack 6 місяців тому +7

    it looks like nilered's purple gold towards the end. I wonder if it would do anything at all in an alloy

  • @Kargoneth
    @Kargoneth 6 місяців тому +3

    Looks like a beautiful paint. I wonder how stable it is or if it will change colour over time.

  • @chemnobeliumlab1520
    @chemnobeliumlab1520 6 місяців тому +2

    Amateur Chemistry : The MnO2 paste is so messy and sticks almost to everything and cleaning it is a huge disaster
    at the mean time (5:11) wearing light gray hoodie and handling the MnO2 paste with additional splashes 😂😂😂

  • @Kargoneth
    @Kargoneth 6 місяців тому +2

    I like your sense of humour.

  • @unnamed8395
    @unnamed8395 6 місяців тому +6

    Lesgoo i have been waiting

  • @ScottMelville-w4g
    @ScottMelville-w4g 6 місяців тому +4

    U got a new handle for U mortor and pestle 🎉

  • @gaetanozorzi2055
    @gaetanozorzi2055 6 місяців тому +3

    You may have gotten a strangely high yield because of trace metals in the battery that are catalyzing the reaction

  • @jajkonatwardo5493
    @jajkonatwardo5493 6 місяців тому +6

    17:33 polish phosphoric acid lol

  • @LetWeskerCook
    @LetWeskerCook 6 місяців тому +6

    Watching u since u started love ur content lel best dinner content I have found ....❤❤

  • @htomerif
    @htomerif 6 місяців тому +4

    Could you have done this with battery stuff + HCl -> MnCl2, +NaOH -> Mn(OH)2, + (NH4)H2PO4 + H3PO4 -> NH4MnP2O7 ?
    I'm not sure about that last step, if Mn(OH)2 would work. It feels like just more water would be liberated but I don't know.

  • @Kargoneth
    @Kargoneth 6 місяців тому +2

    Thanks for the upload, sir.

  • @deaultusername
    @deaultusername 6 місяців тому +2

    for the Vacuum you nee a recirculating venturi pump where there is no metal body to be eaten, you can get glass ones and use a magnetic water pump if desired. For the diammonium phosphate its DAP aka homebrewing nutrient for beer and cider.

    • @deaultusername
      @deaultusername 6 місяців тому +1

      ua-cam.com/video/tYLlkTDstmo/v-deo.html Aspirator Vacuum Pump is another name for it, here is a setup explained

  • @kinggrass689
    @kinggrass689 Місяць тому +1

    This channel is massively underrated

  • @Kargoneth
    @Kargoneth 6 місяців тому +4

    Pink? Batteries? Must be manganese-based.

  • @drbluegun3965
    @drbluegun3965 5 місяців тому +3

    17:33 kwas fosforowy
    18:00 olej kielecki
    4:55 hating on EU
    I can only guess where are you really from... only guess...

  • @user_S2_
    @user_S2_ 6 місяців тому +1

    Babe wake up, NileRed poste- umm... Oh wait.. Babe wake up,
    quick, amateur chemistry posted!

  • @AppliedCryogenics
    @AppliedCryogenics 6 місяців тому +7

    I think Piranha solution would turn all the carbon into CO2, but might be expensive.

  • @sonotthere
    @sonotthere 5 місяців тому

    Having made this reaction myself for a uni project, I respect all the steps you went though to clean the manganese and pyrifying it by dissolving it with acid.
    I went by the road of pyrolysing the carbon away.
    It did sinter the manganese and I spent almost a day to crushing it up finely again.
    For phosphoric acid a lab mate help extracted some from Coca-Cola as a proof of concept that this pigment could be made from house hold items, the ammonia we got from cleaning chemicals.
    In the final reaction I used some more acid from the lab store room so we could end up with enough to actually paint with.
    Mine did ende up more dark purple, possibly due to mixed oxidation states of the pyrolized manganese according to my teacher at the time.
    We made about 100 gram that was split 3 ways between the lab mate, me and for professor lab collection.

  • @chrismuskett6867
    @chrismuskett6867 6 місяців тому +5

    Would adding the battery paste to piranha solution be a way of eliminating the carbon whilst generating manganese sulphate?

    • @amritlohia8240
      @amritlohia8240 5 місяців тому

      Theoretically yes, but it would be dangerous and quite expensive to make such a large quantity of piranha solution.

    • @christopherleubner6633
      @christopherleubner6633 28 днів тому

      The MnO2 would make the solution decompose extremely violently.

  • @DaftyBoi412
    @DaftyBoi412 6 місяців тому +4

    This video was brought to you by ... DOO da da doo doo do da dooo .....

  • @R-Tex.
    @R-Tex. 6 місяців тому +2

    Can you make a short about copper glutamate complex? It has a beautiful blue color! Our professor showed us a demonstration where he mixed a solution of basic copper carbonate and a solution of monosodium glutamate and it turned this deep beautiful blue!

  • @Riverperson_4
    @Riverperson_4 6 місяців тому +5

    this is... amazing?
    why tho

  • @thatpyroguy6741
    @thatpyroguy6741 6 місяців тому +4

    great video your the new nile red

  • @DangerousLab
    @DangerousLab 6 місяців тому +10

    Looks like you got a turning table to up the game! Great video👍

  • @Salt_and_Peroxide
    @Salt_and_Peroxide 6 місяців тому +5

    absolutely epic

  • @mariobv947
    @mariobv947 6 місяців тому +2

    What about creating ferrite cores for transformers from the parts of alcaline/saline batteries?

  • @tikaanipippin
    @tikaanipippin 6 місяців тому +7

    What's wrong with burning off all the carbon as the first step?

    • @87bwadman
      @87bwadman 24 дні тому +1

      Or piranha solution and turn it all to CO2?

  • @internallyinteral
    @internallyinteral 5 місяців тому

    Chem tubers are the only reason i enjoy chemistry now. Keep on keeping on

  • @pizzalord3n
    @pizzalord3n 6 місяців тому +2

    So.... Paris Green when?

  • @ricardosefa4186
    @ricardosefa4186 6 місяців тому +1

    Incredible video

  • @TheCommuted
    @TheCommuted 6 місяців тому +5

    I wonder if you can just heat it up and burn off the carbon

  • @stephensteele2844
    @stephensteele2844 6 місяців тому +2

    I expect all my Coca Cola to be war Coca Cola from now on

  • @turkeybywhatmeans
    @turkeybywhatmeans 5 місяців тому +1

    10:52 my favorite unit of measurement is:
    metric frickton

  • @yehiaali3899
    @yehiaali3899 4 місяці тому

    I just want to say I love your videos so much. You're quite funny and your lab work is pretty impressive. I'm definitely looking forward to watch more of your beautiful videos.

  • @ingenitussapientia
    @ingenitussapientia 6 місяців тому +5

    Why not eliminate the carbon in step 1 with piranha solution?

    • @amritlohia8240
      @amritlohia8240 5 місяців тому

      Presumably it would be too dangerous!

    • @ingenitussapientia
      @ingenitussapientia 5 місяців тому +1

      @@amritlohia8240 Dripping it while cooling wouldn't be very dangerous. All that filtering however is most definitely dangerous for his mental health.

    • @amritlohia8240
      @amritlohia8240 5 місяців тому

      @@ingenitussapientia I'd have thought just having large quantities of piranha solution around is enough to be considered dangerous, but perhaps you're braver than me!

    • @ingenitussapientia
      @ingenitussapientia 5 місяців тому

      @@amritlohia8240 Around? It's not piranha solution until you mix it. And really you shouldn't be doing any kind of chemistry if you are not completely comfortable with the common acids.

    • @amritlohia8240
      @amritlohia8240 5 місяців тому

      @@ingenitussapientia The fact that it can become explosive is the issue.

  • @cheeserdane
    @cheeserdane 6 місяців тому +2

    I wanna see you do a painting on video!

  • @testing2517
    @testing2517 5 місяців тому

    Thanks!

    • @Amateur.Chemistry
      @Amateur.Chemistry  5 місяців тому

      Thank you for being so generous, I greatly appreciate it :)

  • @Christian-lh7ux
    @Christian-lh7ux 5 місяців тому

    Hehe, very nice channel 😅👍
    I'm used to make acrylic and watercolour paint from pigments and I even made some prussian blue by myself but I never had the idea to try to make manganese pigments but now I'm really hyped for it 😂

  • @christopherleubner6633
    @christopherleubner6633 29 днів тому

    Use dead batteries, the MnO2 is already converted to Mn(OH)2 and MnO. Use the separator that is present and soak in H2SO4 solution. Alternately mix it up then vacuum filter using a disposable funnel/filter made from an old soda bottle.

  • @piotrkurek5347
    @piotrkurek5347 5 місяців тому +1

    18:00 ah tak. Dobrze widzę? Olej kujawski ?

    • @piotrkurek5347
      @piotrkurek5347 5 місяців тому +1

      20:24 dobrze widziałem. Kujawski

  • @Commenter-942
    @Commenter-942 5 місяців тому

    My experience with this is that the pigment reaction seems to be pretty sensitive to temperature, I had one result much like yours, and the next one using a slightly lower temp resulted in a much deeper color.

  • @wiju
    @wiju 6 місяців тому +5

    Piranha to remove the carbon?

    • @amritlohia8240
      @amritlohia8240 5 місяців тому

      Would work, but quite expensive to make such a large quantity of it, and would obviously be quite dangerous too!

  • @Bulbasauros
    @Bulbasauros 6 місяців тому +3

    I thought lead paint was white

  • @popescucristian8978
    @popescucristian8978 5 місяців тому

    14:29 the warfare cocacola is actually healthier than the real cocacola

  • @ZoonCrypticon
    @ZoonCrypticon 5 місяців тому

    Question: Couldn´t you have used a high temperature furnace to get rid of all the unwanted oily solutions and carbon particles added to the mangenese dioxide and then later purify it more easily ?

  • @secretgogeta
    @secretgogeta 6 місяців тому +1

    Chemistry is cool

  • @ridley3033
    @ridley3033 3 місяці тому

    Is there something that prevents you from just burning everything in a high oxygen environment? Carbon just disappears as CO2, MgO2 is already oxydized and Zinc I would assume just melts and puddles at the bottom.

  • @sestrenger7015
    @sestrenger7015 5 місяців тому

    Can you please share the schematics of the ball mill, please?

  • @AwareOCE
    @AwareOCE 5 місяців тому

    "Some kind of warfare coca-cola" 😂

  • @tubehogofcapetown
    @tubehogofcapetown 6 місяців тому +3

    Why not make some good old toxic lead or cadmium paint from lead acid batteries or nicd batteries? It's not like you have to eat it

  • @abdelrhmanislam
    @abdelrhmanislam 6 місяців тому +4

    The old thumbnail was better retun it

  • @charlies.9266
    @charlies.9266 5 місяців тому +1

    Patatas Fritas si

  • @ArjayMartin
    @ArjayMartin 5 місяців тому

    21 mins in, Tyranid blood

  • @alexandriaarmstrong1459
    @alexandriaarmstrong1459 6 місяців тому +4

    Third?

  • @Crystal_Beach
    @Crystal_Beach 5 місяців тому

    Instant subscribe.

  • @MohdAradi
    @MohdAradi 5 місяців тому

    @7:52 Black is sus

  • @achyuth6500
    @achyuth6500 6 місяців тому +1

    Nice

  • @The_Spanish_Chemist
    @The_Spanish_Chemist 6 місяців тому +7

    First like and first comment, love you man

  • @Scareface80
    @Scareface80 6 місяців тому +4

    9th 😂

  • @king_james_official
    @king_james_official 5 місяців тому

    dlaczego tak przedłużasz końcówki 😂

  • @merelymayhem
    @merelymayhem 4 місяці тому

    nice

  • @InternetFiend68
    @InternetFiend68 6 місяців тому +4

    second

  • @-r-495
    @-r-495 6 місяців тому +5

    Hmm, interesting 🤨
    Let‘s gut a battery that won’t be too angry at getting poked 🥹

    • @-r-495
      @-r-495 6 місяців тому +1

      you could also get yourself a membrane pump or a water aspirator?