Making Sodium Hydroxide (Lye) From Salt 

Chemistry in a nutshell

Sounds like alchemy! Lol

😂😂😂So true

😂😂lol

And a pinch of Unobtanium too.

oh what a coincidence, today i was trying to make a "hydrogen burner" of sorts by reacting aluminium metal with sodium hydroxide

@@VerbenaIDK My 2cents, do NOT use a 200L reactor vessel. Wear gloves, NaOH "feels" slippery, because it's dissolving the fats in your fingers... in real time. Capture ALL of your hydrogen (no smoking). Keep a suitable (equal strength) acid solution nearby to neutralize the reaction if/when needed. "Bill" learned first hand that a $450 Halide "all purpose" fire extinguisher does absolutely nothing here.

Typical damn management

+charles cote Lol, I guess that is true, but I can keep reusing the mercury to make as much hydroxide as I like.

I have slightly over 40 pounds of it my grandpa and dad used to train and sell horses and would use it in tubes put on the sides of the horses head to keep them from shaking there heads. My dad always told me it was illegal and deadly as a kid but I think it was just to keep me from playing with it but now that I have it and have so much does anyone know if I can sell it legally or do I need a license?

@Nuovoswiss a more efficent way than the methods you proposed is 2 half cells with a salt bridge. One cell has just salt water the other just distilled water or maybe a little sodium hydroxide to help start the current flowing. Sodium ions travel through the bridge and chlorene evolves as a gas from the saltwater brine cell.

@Nuovoswiss the energy efficency will be realtivly good and more dependent on the applied voltage. But, the rate of ion flow through the bridge, among many other factors, is roughly proportional to crossection area of the bridge. A not all inclusive list of other factors may include electrode surface area, distance between them, conductivity of solutions in each cell, temperature, contaminates, thickness of membrane composing cell.

@Nuovoswiss i think i glossed over a lot of that in the not all inclusive list of other factors in my previous comment. In general, the resistance between cells can be compensated by increasing the crossection area of the membrane much the same as putting two resistors in parrelel halfs the resistance of that resistor network. Double the plate area also halfs the resistance in a cell that ends up as waste heat. Same with halfing the distance between electrodes also halfs the resistance that ends up as waste heat. Of cource there are pratical limits to each of the above optimizations. If one has electronic experence, one might find that electrolsys can be simulated fairly well with a resistor and zener diode in series with each other. The voltage drop across the resistor × the current is the power that ends up as waste heat. Voltage drop across the zener diode is related to the elecro chemistry of the electrolyte and the plates. The current times the voltage drop across the zener diode ends up being the power that does the electrolytic work making the current through the zener diode related to moles. Intrestingly if one applies alternating current, the electrode plates act like a capacitor that is parrelel to the resistor and zener diode, and the electrolyte acts like a dielectric that increases the capacitance. Water is a great dielectric at low voltages and high frequency. So it is then that when using ac, it helps to introduce an inductor coil sized to counter the capacitive reactance at the driven freqency. Lowering the voltage drop across the series resistor in the resistor zener diode model makes for a more efficent electrolsys system. The previous mentioned optimizations reguarding electrode size distance do that, but so does lowering the applied voltage so long as is still more than the zerner diode's voltage raiting. Lowering the voltage results in more electrolsys product and less waste heat from a given amount of energy supplied. Unwanted side reactions with contaminates will most certainly complicate any simulation model.

its best if you dont make it, its as good as drain cleaner.

@@magnuswootton6181 Sodium hydroxide is very useful for cleaning off stubborn polymerized materials from cookware (oven pans etc) as well as for unclogging drains. It's sold as a general cleaning supply here. A 1kg tub costs 2-3€. As long as you don't let it contact anything made of aluminium (or yourself) you're fine. I do usually try with sodium carbonate beforehand, it's safer and you don't need nearly as many precautions. It's only dangerous if you get it in your eyes and will only _slightly_ ruin aluminium (instead of going nuclear like the hydroxide).

When dissolved in methyl alcohol and added to old cooking oil , bio diesel can be obtained.

@@dont.ripfuller6587 transesterification

NaOH with aluminium foil is good for producing hydrogen, which can be used for create hydrogen lamp if you manage to put that gas on fire. :D Or you can even blow yourself up, if you create pressurised environment and manage to put it on fire :D

you should strongly consider get a patreon, it might supply you with more funds for bigger and "better" videos. Above all though, keep making your content fun and interesting!

+Zach Salmi I think I will make one just to see what happens, perhaps I can get enough to upgrade my equipment, but what ever I do I wont advertise it constantly like other channels as I find that rather annoying.

+Cody'sLab i would put a link in your description and just do 5 seconds mentioning it at the end of each video, it would be enough for the people who want to donate.

possibly a granite... amphibole, maybe epidote and biotite in thin section

+Ian Shackell Thats actually pretty close!

What kind of Pretzel so you have , Soap Pretzel !?

u dip pretzales into food grade lye before cooking

You can order food grade lye on Amazon pretty cheap. If you're using it though you have to be pretty careful and honestly you can achieve a pretty good result from baking soda.

I don't know enough about the process to say for sure but I reckon you could substitute gallium over gentle heating for a non-toxic pseudo-amalgam. Don't take my word for it as this video is the full extent of my research into this reaction..

I have yet to try it but I believe you can simply boil a wood ash slurry for 30 minutes and lye will be on the tippity top

+NightHawkInLight Thanks! It took me all weekend to make this video. though I;m sure you spend way longer than that on most of yours. :)

Thanks for shouting out this channel, it's fantastic!

+Cody'sLab Different styles. I like the rawness of your videos, it makes them feel genuine.

+NightHawkInLight Love both your channels, Learning a lot and getting my kids involved with science! Hope your channels rocket you into the future!

Agreed! love both of you channels by the way

lol

lol good one xD

Please stop

That's light. Shame to me. (What kind of communi-CATION it is???)

Wow

i think its bismuth

+Preston Unless of course it's Meteoritic in origin.

+Preston looks like a chondrite

my next poem is about rocks... theyre all about rocks.

Thanks man, i couldn't tell

me too

And bromine. Don't forget bromine! Some of the friendliest stuff around... ;)

***** I don't like the texture, I find it a bit too cloudy.

Don't forget the bromine

Na you forgot some sodium too. ;)

better than sugary kids' cereals.

Don't you think it looks like 1967 Chemistry class

Yeah sweet death happens.😂

I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed that.

+Lucas Howiler lol'd

+Gareth Dean Na...

JayMark2049 Oh, that's Cl then.

Oh, barNaCles!

+Connor Steppie nerdgasm

Gareth Dean I would make a sodium joke to fit the theme, but Na

Andrew Griffiths its all good he knows what he is doing.

+quadrapod Yeah! I think that is what its called when you have mercury.

yes, in fact using this method is how metallic radium was first produced.

could you show us?

+Ping and then explosives out of that

+ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ and then make a nuke out of it

Arjen Hartink and my axe

I lol'd

That seems like a waste of beeswax.

Thnx for telling..

+TheGinginator14 You may have guessed at an up coming video ;)

Cody'sLab is this video ever coming up?

+Curtis Dorris (AtrumBlood) first time using the condom... lol

LUIS UniqEz XD

LUIS UniqEz Maaaaaagnum dooooooong

i see what you did there. haha

if your looking for mercury in Walmart you probably shouldn't be handling it

@@batenkait0s657 you can't take a joke, so you shouldn't be commdnting

@@swsipn this world has really stupid people who you think are joking but are not for example the cherry pit community who eat cherry pits-no matter how much it seems like a joke I treat things seriously due to people like them

Mercury maniac.

It is...

Its concentrated knowledge

What are you talking about dude.

@@quicksilver3431 not sure it was 4 years ago

@@stevencox75 no That's okay, i was just asking.. what's your point of reminding bismuth.

+☭ REPTILLIAN ☭ Wow, I hope the orignal comment didn't go over your head...but it's kinda looking that way

+☭ REPTILLIAN ☭ pretty sure arno was making a silly pun. Cody made lye in the video dude.

+☭ REPTILLIAN ☭ Nah, don't fuck your life over the internet...I'm pretty sure we've all been that guy. At least you have the intellect to realize a mistake

Arno Victor Dorian Dude, that would be spelt lying

@@KILLRXNOEVIRUS wooosh

+Wyatt Hanson And the rest are frozen solid... lol

+Cody'sLab yep

Haven't you saw the boom on the other videos!

+Some One Yeah quarters are made from a material known as nickel silver which is just an alloy of nickel and copper. Nickel and copper oxidize at different temperatures so a lot of colors can be made due to the different ratios of oxides. Pre 1964 quarters didnt do this due to containing primarily silver.