Make Sodium Without Electrolysis Using Domestically Available Chemicals
Added 2017-04-29 13:00:14 +0000 UTCThanks for supporting me!
This video also includes me testing the sodium on water (which i hadn't gotten to yet in the preview).
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this is SO cool. I wonder how, or if, this would work with the likes of K or Rb.
Roger Lee
2017-05-01 14:43:44 +0000 UTCCongratulations on finally achieving this goal! The final spheres were lovely and showed some really crisp and interesting crystallization.
Ariamaki
2017-04-30 02:25:11 +0000 UTCoh were not trying to dissolve anything, just get the sodium to separate. a soxhlet would have little value in this particular case.
NurdRage
2017-04-29 22:53:31 +0000 UTCProbably would work very well. But i'm not yet ready to put in the capital expenditure for things like cylinder restraints, regulators, tubes and so on. Maybe someday though.
NurdRage
2017-04-29 22:52:37 +0000 UTCThanks! (although i blatantly ripped off the animation, another youtuber made it and posted the files for free)
NurdRage
2017-04-29 22:50:11 +0000 UTCprobably "thermochemical magnesium-dioxane" process for making alkali metals. I'll submit a paper if i can prove the mechanism of the separation.
NurdRage
2017-04-29 22:49:32 +0000 UTCA suggestion I'd propose is to use the soxlet adapter as a solvent repository. Keep the reaction in the main flask and as the dioxane evaporates, it condenses in the soxlet adapter and then when filled, flushes into the reaction flask. You reduce the amount of dioxane required and have a more thorough reaction.
Simon Bitdiddle
2017-04-29 22:25:17 +0000 UTCThis is probably ignorance on my part, but don't welding supply stores provide a lot of anti-oxidation supplies like argon for working with metals at high temperatures? I don't think I've ever heard you mention it, whereas you frequently mention oxidation being a problem.
2017-04-29 21:03:09 +0000 UTCThe sodium on water was a nice touch. Your achievement unlocked animation also appeals to the graphic artist in me. 😎
Michael Aichlmayr
2017-04-29 19:15:10 +0000 UTCSo does this process get a name? Is it worth submitting a paper for?
Zach Heilman
2017-04-29 16:10:21 +0000 UTC
