Preview - Work in Progress - Lab notes on updating the mechanism
Added 2018-11-15 06:02:38 +0000 UTCSomething i have never shown you before is how i'm editing my videos before i narrate them. Sometimes if i expect a video to be very long or very complicated i use a text to speech synthesizer to auto-narrate the video so i can edit quicker. Using my actual voice takes longer since i go through several takes to get the right intonation. And if i make changes, i have to narrate all over again.
What text to speech synthesizer do i use? A British female voice that is hilariously different from my own. Primarily because i find it amusing. So here my gift to you my patrons, a VERY early draft of a video where i update the mechanism. It's still unfinished and i haven't even written the rest of the script so even i don't know what's going to happen next. But i thought you'd might get a kick out of listening to someone completely different narrate my video.
enjoy :)
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Ah yes, I found out about that distinction once I took a closer look at the sodium, too bad. --It makes the sodium considerably harder having the oxides mixed in. Has anybody tried potassium with tetrahydrolinalool? I tried it and it was extremely active, like a rolling boil when I added the magnesium after the drying stage (Long before it even hit 200C!), and I had to move it to a larger flask since it was foaming a bit and almost overflowing. The problem is, once that settled down and the bubbling stopped there was no potassium visible, just what I think are oxidized magnesium flakes. For some reason it didn't form a slurry at all, it was all pretty course and the oil was easily filtered off, perfectly clear and no cloudiness. I tend to think that potassium is too reactive and it will require a lower temperature and shorter amount of time to avoid having the potassium oxidize itself (Though where it's getting the oxygen to do so baffles me). The only time I successfully made some was by adding potassium hyrdroxide flakes to a hot mixture of oil, tertiary butly acohol, and of course magnesium turnings. Within a couple minutes there was a significant amount of metal visible and I immediately collected what I could before allowing it continue to react, which produced absolutely nothing but oxides after hours of moderate bubbling. Really need to take a closer look at those dark-colored flakes to see what they are...
Larry B
2018-11-22 05:52:37 +0000 UTCGlad to hear the tetrahydrolinalool is working for you. The thing about dioxane is that it helps to separate magnesium metal from sodium. The magnesium oxide is already very easy to separate since its a slurry, but the metal sticks to sodium. Interesting point about the steel though.
NurdRage
2018-11-19 23:01:14 +0000 UTCA couple notes from my own testing... Tetrahydro-linalool is just great, it's the first time I got a large yield after attempting to use tertiary amyl and butyl alcohols in the past, just never had much luck with them. It turns out to be pretty easy avoiding dixoane for isolating the sodium, I doubled the amount oil and all the magnesium oxide becomes an extremely fine suspension, and the sodium forms large clumps that are only a pain if you wait until it cools to room temperature and try tearing/bending the sodium through a smaller-necked flask. Finally, don't be dumb like me and try re-melting sodium in a metal container (In oil) since apparently sodium has no issue bonding with steel, similar to soldering with tin/lead at higher temperatures.
Larry B
2018-11-19 16:42:39 +0000 UTC
