18:24 casually releasing H2S that is enough to wipe out a whole village.
He produced 1m³ of pure H2S. If it's dilutet to 100 ppm he contaminated over 10000 m³ of air. That's the size of a 10 floors high building.
The extra 2g of ‘sand’ is probably steel from the cans!
next make video: making an i7 intel cpu with the silicon
7:18 "The dirt was so dirty it just refused to cooperate." 🤣
The extra mass after using the ball mill is probably coming from the ball bearings literally getting sanded down.
Ah my favorite chemistry channel: Turning dirt into things that do not look like dirt
I'm just amazed at the sheer amount of H2S 💀💀💀
H2S is flammable. It can be directed to a flame or ignited for safe destruction.
That 99.9999% pure silicon was the remains of a formerly perfect boule.
When purifying the sand, the first acid step should be soaking with vinegar. Using sulfuric acid will leave insoluble calcium sulfate and other insoluble sulfates. Adding the sodium carbonate will leave insoluble carbonates from soluble sulfates like magnesium sulfate. An additional gravity separation step would clean the sand of heavy metals. Think gold panning but ssving the sand.
0:03 i thought i was watching "amature chemestry" not "dank pods"
I just realized you’re only like a half-step away from the old dream of alchemy: turning lead into gold. But instead it’s dirt into gems. People a few hundred years ago would have lost their minds.
My man larped WWII chemical warfare at the comfort of his home. Anyway, nice processing.
Churning sulphuric acid by hands is such a power move
if you put wires on random places on the silicon crystals you should be able to find a diode spot and make that spot glow...
I did this same reaction when I was a kid, no way near the scale you did It at and the smell was strong even from 200m away, H2S is that crazy of a stench. I did about 250g of the mixture. It was bad... I did try ball milling it, and fun fact, you really do not need Sulphur if you ball mill everything and it can even be ignited with a match. But both the Aluminum and Sand has to be like powder! It's pretty aggressive and you get no smell. I'd recommend making the aluminum powder yourself if you plan on ever repeating this and when you make the aluminum powder, see if you can get some softwood charcoal (from willow or balsa, the soft wood charcoal is way better). Add 1% Charcoal powder by weight to the aluminum when you mill it. Be sure to open the container every 2 days or so and just let it sit in the open air, because it tends to auto-ignite if you don't do that. Also you can purify the sand by heating it on a stove with sodium hydroxide to make sodium silicate. Some cat litters are made from Amorphous Silica too which is another pure source. Great content! Keep it up!
Dude cleaned the dirt off the dirt
Thanks!
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