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It's really stubborn the foam

OMY GOD, I REALLY MUST SEE A PURPLE POTATO!!!!!! Thanks!

Hey! Are you referring to Calcium Carbonate? For a brighter yellow?

You maybe be right about the hydroxide being a better choice, I had not really considered it as most of the old recipes suggest soda but that may of been because it was cheaper in the 19th century

Cheers for the confirmation of the pigment, organic chem is still such a weak point in my knowledge.

Might be a tad late for an answer, but it looks a lot like a magnetic stirrer, like one would use in a laboratory or in chemistry classes 😊

me too, would like to see a video on Goldenrod; I've ordered some of it's pieces and in any case will try to make an oil paint from it and share with you.

I feel like it should have a reasonable lightfastness but time will tell.

They're available from chemical laboratory supply companies.

I made lake pigments from dried pomegrante peel and dried buckthorn bark, I saw that alum addition before filtration retains in the filter tannin and some dark constituents because alum binds these things. If the alum is added right before sodium the lake might be darker. From other hand, I read info that the presence of tannin can help to get more lightfast pigments, but I'm not sure about that, I'd just tell that my oil paint made from buckthorn bark contains tannins and had no change for a year under sunlight.

@@alexandrdementiev8750 thanks, Alexander for answering to my alum adding question. Your answer makes sense :) And yes, tannin helps to gets more lightfast pigments - it makes same thing in natural dyeing or in screenprinting & in so called ecoprinting. But have to say, that water soluable plant dyes are not as lightfast as more synthetic paints.

This might be the case though I feel like with this kind of foam I am trying to beat out the air.

@@TheAlchemicalArts I think it might be worth a try to do the exact opposite by stirring less, especially from above (your stirring thing at the bottom of the container is great because it shouldn't pull any air in) Another neat baking trick that might translate well into this experiment is the trick with making the sugar syrup when doing italian butter cream frosting. When boiling the sugar water, you use a brush with water to wash the sugar particles that creep up on the sides of the pot, back down into the mixture, doing this prevents a sudden boil-over (as the bubbles cling to the sugar particles on the sides of the pot, it can just all of a sudden expand like crazy and boil over just like the foam did in your video) You can perhaps try the same technique using a brush of water to "wash" the sides of the glass to keep the particles from creeping up the sides of the glass, see if that also helps.

The dyer's chamomile leaves can also be used for dyeing, but they make slightly lime green shades of colour. For a pure yellow, just use the blossoms.

Yes it is safe to just go down the drain

perhaps too late to reply, but i'm fairly certain the colour change was due to anthocyanins in the plant. anthocyanins are what gives most purple or "red" plants (like red cabbage and red onion) their colour but they are also sensitive to changes in pH; the addition of the washing soda was a dramatic change in alkalinity and thus also in the colour of your paint. i don't know if anthocyanins are the only pH-sensitive plant pigments, but any plant with high levels of them will have a similar colour change. you can look it up online to see a list of plants high in anthocyanins, but it's a safe bet that most red and purple plants are.

Aluminum pot would work as steel might contaminate the colour. Also do heat it too much just hot not boiling

I wonder if titanium oxalate would be good replacement? Has anyone tried it out?

synthesize aqueous barium sulfate.

You can try any flowers but anthemis tinctoria has good colour compounds in it.

@@TheAlchemicalArts awesome! Thanks! 😎

I am not sure what kind of blue dye you mean?

@@TheAlchemicalArts I looking for syantetic Dye's, and this color used for in textile dye's