Make Potassium Nitrate from Instant Cold Packs and Potassium Hydroxide Warning: This reaction will produce large quantities of toxic ammonia gas. Perform the reaction outside or in a fume hood. Potassium hydroxide is highly corrosive; wear gloves when working with it. Also note that this video is for those interested in the chemistry, it's not cheaper/better/easier than buying it. Take 60g of potassium hydroxide and combine it with 80g of ammonium nitrate. We showed how to obtain ammonium nitrate from instant cold packs in a previous video. Potassium hydroxide is sold online to make homemade soaps and for biodiesel. Now add 30ml of water and gently heat the mixture. It will first bubble as it releases ammonia gas and then continue heating until it boils. Let it cool and evaporate to dryness. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxhZkDAOeQ8

In this video we make "Wildfire" from Game of Thrones. I've collaborated with my friend PixelLitch and sent him the bottle of wildfire which he used in his video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkwaE0J5QFM The wildfire in this video is actually an azeotropic mixture of trimethyl borate and methanol. Trimethyl borate burns with an intense green flame that looks very much like wildfire from "Game of Thrones". To make it we mix 200g of Borax, 650mL of methanol and 100g of sulfuric acid (98%). We then set up a fractional distillation column and distill of the fraction at 54 degrees Celsius which is azeotropic trimethyl borate. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyHOBQl-yQI

Glassware generously provided by http://www.alchemylabsupply.com/ By popular request, how to make Copper (II) Chloride. The first and simplest method is to get hydrochloric acid of around ~20% concentration and add copper. Then bubble air through it using an aquarium pump. The oxygen in the air oxidizes the copper and reacts with the acid to produce copper chloride. Pretty much any concentration of acid can be used, but we recommend around 20% as there are considerably less fumes. A major drawback of this method is that it's VERY slow and can take days to produce useful quantities of copper chloride. The second far faster method is to react hydrochloric acid and copper with an equal volume of hydrogen peroxide. The recommended concentration of acid is greater than 20% and the peroxide is equal or greater than 3%. In our video we used 200 mL 31% hydrochloric acid, 30g of copper and 200 mL of 6% hydrogen peroxide. This reaction only takes a few hours to finish. For many applications like PCB etching or gold recovery from circuit boards, sulfate contamination is not a problem so the third method uses readily available copper sulfate. Just take the copper sulfate and add as much hydrochloric acid as necessary to dissolve it. This directly produces copper chloride that can be used for the previously mentioned application. It will be contaminated with sulfate ions but these have no effect. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8mHiFYmlBc

How to make potassium nitrate at home with instant cold packs and "sodium-free" salt. "Sodium-free" salt is actually potassium chloride. Instant cold packs contain ammonium nitrate and if the two are mixed potassium nitrate and ammonium chloride are formed in equilibrium. Fortunately potassium nitrate has lower solubility than ammonium chloride at colder temperatures giving us a means of separation. Just mix 40 grams of ammonium nitrate with 100mL of water and stir until dissolved. Filter the mixture directly into 37 grams of potassium chloride. Gently heat until completely dissolved, do not boil. Cool the mixture to 0 Celsius in the freezer or on an ice bath. Filter the crystals and dry them. Now you have potassium nitrate. To test it mix 2 parts potassium nitrate with one part sugar and light it up. It should burn with a purple/pinkish flame. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOjtlIxYYbs