Okay, so we are not truly dissolving the gold, we are actually forming an alloy between the gold and the mercury (called an amalgam).
This process is not only cool to look at, but it also is really useful to extract gold from ore. The gold-mercury amalgam can then be isolated and the mercury is boiled off or removed chemically. This leaves behind relatively pure gold.
In this video, we will be making lithium hydroxide by reacting lithium metal with water!
I plan to use the lithium hydroxide to make some lithium based drugs (used to treat bipolar disorder) and to make lithium peroxide (reacts with CO2 and produces O2)
I plan to do an Q and A video, so if you have any questions you'd like me to address in the video, leave them in the comments.
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Chemical transformations have always fascinated me and I've done a few (in my opinion) cool ones on this channel. For example, I turned my own pee into artificial sweetener and toilet paper into moonshine. For this one though, I'll be doing something that I've been wanting to do for years and I'll be turning plastic gloves into grape soda.
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Phthalic acid/anhydride: Borrowed from both Youtuber users NurdRage and UC235
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This is just a quick video on how to make a base/acid bath for glassware cleaning.
For the base bath, you can also use methanol if you don't have isopropanol.
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So today, I'm gonna to be making some scary looking microwave plasma, which may or may not destroy my microwave.
WARNING: DON'T TRY THIS. Microwave plasma is extremely dangerous and can easily damage your microwave. This experiment was carried out in a controlled environment and serious injury can occur if performed improperly.
Glass used in this experiment has a chance to explode, and is otherwise permanently compromised. For more information on this effect, check out "I had to break all of my beakers" on NileBlue: https://youtu.be/tGqVMbAQhBs
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In this video, we explore the Birch Reduction by carrying it out on benzene.
This is a very useful reaction and it is pretty cool to carry out too.
A photo of a typical mechanism: http://www.chemgapedia.de/vsengine/media/vsc/en/ch/12/oc/radikale/birch_reduktion/birch_mechanismus_en.gif
Depending on the groups attached to the ring, the mechanism does change a little bit and it produces a product that is reduced at different places.
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I bought this magnet machine (along with many other machines) for my magnet project. I am working on making my own neodymium magnets from scratch!
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In this video, I produce potassium chlorate from Ca(OH)2 and chlorine gas.
This method is the same method that is used industrially. However, I found that it is a very lengthy and work involved method for quite a small yield.
I will be uploading a better method using calcium hypochlorite in the near future.
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Most plastic bottles are made of PET plastic (polyethylene terephthalate), and in this video, I'll be recycling it into polyurethane foam.
This was just one method of doing it, and in the future I'll be exploring other ways.
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The comment section to this video is going to serve as a place where you can make general comments, suggestions or requests! It will be much easier for me when it is all in one place. Below is a list:
Completed and getting edited
- Alcohol distillation
- vanillyl oxime
Experiments I am working on:
- Reaction between iodine and aluminum
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