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Make Glow in the Dark Powder - The Science
Another fantastic video from the OG YouTube Chemist.
Dissolving $1000 of Platinum to Make $6000 of Chloroplatinic Acid for Professional Use
Another great video from NurdRage. One of the most detailed and methodical YouTube chemists.
Extracting Thorium Dioxide from Thoriated Tungsten Rods
New NurdRage video!
Nice to see another amateur-accessible source of thorium, since incandescent gas mantles have mostly switched to yttrium.
I wonder what the easiest way would be to reduce the thorium dioxide to thorium metal?
Make Nitric Acid without Sulfuric Acid by Oxalate Precipitation
Another useful example of producing a strong acid from a weak acid by using precipitation as the driving force.
Extracting Radioactive Salt from Chornobyl Blueberries
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/21614029
One of the OG YouTube chemists dabbles in some radiochemistry and spectroscopy.
Make sulfuric acid from oxalic acid with the sun
Not very practical, but the chemistry is interesting. Producing a strong acid from a weak acid by using precipitation as the driving force is something I don't see very often.
Measuring Density with Pycnometers, Hydrometers, and Graduated Cylinders
A bit of analytical chemistry for a change. I had never heard of a pycnometer!
Make Potassium Nitrate and Sodium Nitrate from Calcium Nitrate - An Alternative to Ammonium Nitrate
Very useful video. Nitrate salts are a foundational feedstock in amateur (and professional) chemistry.
Edit: NurdRage reuploaded a slightly censored version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlonW4iJYrw