I really appreciate that you're videos are so much different than other chemistry channels. You are doing a great job! I have so much fun watching your channel!!!
One cup fertilizer three cups of distilled water in a CorningWare glass type container low boil or simmer for an hour and a half let air cool cover put in refrigerator when it's air temperature and you will have crew pure crystals form in the bottom and sides Pura the liquid into another glass container now you have here nitric powder don't have to distill it or distillation
@@bobsunkees3392you shouldn’t make nitric acid if you don’t have the equipment for a simple distillation, and/or the skill to carry a distillation or a fractional distillation
So if you have nitric acid mixed with sulfuric in the presence of organic compounds, what keeps it from forming nitrate compounds in the boiling flask? Wouldn't that potentially be making explosive compounds like picric acid or picrate salts?
Probably not picrates unless the manure was contaminated with aspirin, salicylic acid, or phenol. It could form explosives with other organic compounds, but it would be in tiny amounts and it's not really enough to be a risk, I wouldn't think.
@@WheelerScientific The Soxhlet works well for me but after watching it work for a while I think an old fashioned percolator might work as well. 😂 I'm going to find one and try it out so if you hear a loud boom you'll know it didn't like perking ethanol🤣🤣🤣
Bravo! Very cool! Now I know what to do if I ever get stranded on a desert island with a bunch of chickens! Make chicken s**t flares! That actually sounds pretty damn fun! Hahaha!
Very cool project! I am now subscribed to your channel. Where did you get the chicken droppings from? Have they been treated so the nitrate content is enriched, or is it just air died and ground up stuff? I was thinking about making a aerobic bio reactor by bubbling air through a water and chicken manure slurry.
Could I use sodium hydroxide to get more sodium nitrate want to get more fertilizer out of it. Sodium nitrate isn’t really in are hardware stores in Spain.
You should use a vacuum take off adapter to connect your collection flask, otherwise you can pressurize your glassware and have a bit of an explosion. It's the curved one with the hose barb on it. Great video!
Many people here are thinking of nefarious purposes for this knowledge but this distillation is actually how magicians make things like flash paper so they can throw fire balls safely.
Or IN3(Iodine trinitrate?) Very super easy to make! & They'll blow something off as soon as they touch it! But yeah I believe the point was that the nefarious types are also too lazy to go to this much effort.
@@circuitsolutionsrepairllc1231 all I know is that the crystals of it self trigger from simply drying.., and a big pile washed down the drain will keep the neighborhood up all night as random small chunks pop and bang for many hours in the sewer pipes. Found that out at 14, (30 years ago)... Before the internet there were libraries and word of mouth.
Fascinating chemistry video excellent quality very well done sir keep up your good work. Fortunately for me if I want a 68% nitric acid solution it's not necessary for me to synthesize it myself since buying small quantities of 68% nitric acid online (no more than one 5 litre container at a time) is completely legal in South Australia where I live
After the water was boiled off and the powdered material was put into the clean narrowed glass for the next step you missed showing what you added to it to get it to boil again to produce a gas to be distilled to a liquid. I'm at a loss seing this the first time?
I just need a rough in type o anything to dissolve the quartz from my very fine gold ore, or any advice on other ways o separation, electrolysis sounds fun ,but anyways very expensive? Help!
So wait. You had your concentrated nitrate chunks at 12:07 and then you added sulfuric acid? I didn't see you add anything so i just trying to make sure.
good evening . i thank you very much for posting this video it was so helpful can i use sodium hydroxide in stead of potassium thank you again for your quick answer and help Best Regards
The video doesn't show the reaction to the copper but you say it was reacting but fail to mention exactly what reaction we should be looking for. Also, I think your paper towel test didn't show a very good reaction because you evaporated the water on the hot plate. You'd get a more sparkling burn if you let it air dry in the sun or under a fan, in a dehumidifier or something.
A reaction is a change in something on a chemical basis, due to this being a chemistry video I make the assumption the person that is watching has a basic familiarly with that. Around 13:13 there are bubbles from the reaction, it is not all that vigorous due to the low concentration of the nitric acid. For the paper towel that reaction burns like that due to all the impurities present, also due to the low concentration of nitrates.
Idk how I missed this video. I made a video about making nitric acid from air. But the quality is pretty low, so I will remake it and distill the nitric acid aswell.
@@WheelerScientific I'm not a lawyer but I'm pretty sure if you can buy it legally, you could extract it out of the dirt legally too, I'm also very confident that enriching it is illegal.. And that's just talking about federal law, state law might be different, for instance I live in New York and if I found gold or silver I have to give it to the government and can't make a claim on it even if it's on my own land, I figure that's why there's no more gold or silver mines in New York, it would be obviously not profitable if you have to give it all away!
You can, I have a video were I show uranium metals properties. There a RU-vidr Cody’slab that got checked up on for processing uranium, and I just don’t want the feds at my door over a RU-vid video. As much as I wanted to, I have to wait till I get a better lab and make sure it’s all go to go.
if you do that, you will get sodium nitrate. this is still a saltpeter though. i don't know if it is the sodium or potassium versions that is considered Chile saltpeter, but it should work, sodium hydroxide is a stronger base, but i think he used potassium hydroxide to serve as the potassium donor.
Spoiler alert kids.....he doesn't use good old dirt...... which probably baited you to watch like it did me in the first place...😩..... Look out for the next video where he'll make solid gold from regular tap water....see you then.... bye for now 🙋
Metal is a very broad term. Every metal has its own very different chemical properties. That's like asking about making chicken soup and saying "what if I use a different meat instead of chicken" well you'll get soup but it won't be chicken soup. What it WILL be depends on what you put in it.
After opening a wormhole from God knows where, I have been careful to not mix things, but I'm slowly getting my nerve to learn proper chemistry and alchemy, been almost 47,48 years and still shaking, regrets the way I treated those advanced life forms, but why they wanna shoot me with that 1 jewel Lazer, that wasn't pleasant, but anyways flushing their universe was probly a good reason they were hostile, but mabe I can go back to before that event and make amends, praise Yahweh Elohim hallelujah 🙌
It always bothers me in YT chemistry videos that you don’t cover the vessel when boiling water, everyone (except chemists apparently) knows that you use less energy and save time just simply covering the vessel.
I have more sulfur than you ,i got from ph stabilizer ,search for ph stabilizer based on sulfur ,if you want to make h2so4 from sulfur ,but bubble it in hydrogen peroxide the more concentrated the better .
My favorite thing about chemistry is if you go back far enough in the synthesis of anything you can make it, provided proper time, knowledge and equipment.
Why did you start the video with 2 minutes of you massaging a bag of chicken shit? This is supposed to be about dirt. It's in the title. A paper towel? Really?
@@WheelerScientific Again, why the 2 minutes of massaging a bag of shit though? Dirt isn't pure manure. Dirt has sand and clay in it along with organics and contaminants. Just use a coffee filter. It's easier and cleaner.
Because that what I chose todo while taking. No clue why that would be a problem. It’s called a catchy title, it’s how you get views on RU-vid, it worked didn’t it.
@@WheelerScientific Your choice exhibits poor taste. Your title is misleading. Good content providers get views based on quality, not click-bait titles. Those are for losers.
It’s not click bait and and it’s good content… so I really don’t see your point. Just because it doesn’t fit your definition of dirt doesn’t mean it’s wrong.
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