Grow Large Solid Tin Crystals
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- I used tin chloride and a small amount of electricity to grow very large tin crystals that maintain their shape even out of water.
Also, at 1:13, I obviously meant 90 grams per liter, not per milliliter. Oops!
If you have ideas for which metal I should grow crystals from next, leave a comment below!
Check out the post on my website for more information about this experiment:
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To learn how to make the tin chloride used in this video, check out NileRed's experiment:
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Absolutely stunning! What I find even more remarkable than the crystals themselves is the thought process and accompanying commentary.
Nice! Maybe you could revisit growing copper crystals? I am intrested in growing some myself and find your video on the subject the best byfar. Possibly you could expand on the old video?
Amazing results, you could sell these to fund future projects, nice work
It's a shame he isn't uploading anymore
This is a real cool looking dragon with a little imagination. Keep up the great work too.
looks like a momma dragon and her baby, lol cool beans yo !! great show!!
You are simply a scientist.
Great!
What do you think about iron? Maybe it will growing as a crystals at low current, or some shiny dendrites/spherolites. Also, try to use some surface active agents in electrolyte, it could made interesting results.
Iron would be very beautiful. I do not know if crystals can be grown in solution, but they can be formed by vapor deposition. I will need to investigate further.
www.periodictable.ru/026Fe/slides/Fe8.jpg
You can made iron nodules/spherolites by electrolysis, here is example from wiki:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron#/media/File:Iron_electrolytic_and_1cm3_cube.jpg
Maybe at low current you can make iron crystals, but even a shiny iron dendrites would be great.
I think that is need to use iron chloride as a elecrolyte.
omfg, that last tree is amazing!!!
That's awesome! Good work :)
Out of curiosity, what was your source for the tin metal?
The tin strips came from some science kit and the blobs of tin were refined from Sn/Sb pewter by simultaneously electrochemically dissolving the pewter and plating out tin in a HCl electrolyte. If I remember correctly I used 5V for the process. There are sciencemadness threads on this - I may make a video in the future as well.
This is pretty cool do you have a platform where you sell your metal crystals?
Thank you for your interest. Regrettably, I do not currently have such a platform set up.
does this experiment produce any hazardous byproducts? Would you need an extraction fan etc ?
At the level of current this experiment runs at, there are no hazardous byproducts produced. At higher currents, though, I could imagine that the HCl could make chlorine gas. A fan is not necessary for this experiment.
Could that be done with silver? There are silver crystal videos, but those crystals are crummy.
The last three grown, was there any other changes done besides the electrolyte reduction? I'd like to recreate to have one of my own.
The last two crystals used the small motor to stir the solution, but otherwise they were the same. Care was taken to make the solution acidic enough for it to be crystal clear. Otherwise, the last change I recall was the reduction in concentration of the last crystal growth electrolyte.
Thank you, and good job, you did amazing on them. I just bought my first breadboard just so I can replicate what you've done. Great video btw, very informative and it gives me something to do while covid.
I really like this video great job!
wow.. very impressive
Did you say 90grams of tin per ML
Beautiful, and I also have many tin crystals which are made by my friend and they are also very beautiful, maybe we can appreciate them together.
and also many metal crystals, he is an element collector.
Cool man and thanks for sharing.
Please if possible write something on paper in the future, some people grasp info by reading.
Regards
What do you do for a full time job
Why adding hydrochloric acid did not result in the tin crystal being dissolved?
The HCl is a fairly low concentration - it's only there to ensure no hydrolysis occurs. I believe the low concentration combined with the electrochemical force depositing tin on the crystal prevents dissolution of the crystal itself.
@@ThePlutoniumBunny Thanks for the info! By the way, I was doing some experiments with tin foil and tin chloride. I noticed that when I dip the tin foil in SnCl2 solution, the foil is transformed into a gray, sponge like substance so I think it is the alpha form of tin? But how can the tin transformed just by contacting the tin chloride solution (2M concentration btw)?
Can I use NaCl solution instead of ZnCl2 solution?
no and it isn't even ZnCL2
Can i use another electrolyte?
Yes, it is likely another soluble tin salt like tin sulfate or tin nitrate would work, and could even produce interesting effects due to the changed anion. It would probably be good to add a bit of the appropriate acid (sulfuric or nitric) to keep the pH low and prevent tin from precipitating as a hydroxide or some other gunk. Give it a shot!
how to make sodium chlorate.
great work. Sellenite next eh :)
radical. you are so cool!!!!
Cool
I wonder is it possible to grow grey tin crystal like this. What would happen, if growing temperature is around 0C?
I think grey tin is amorphous, that's why it tends to form a flaky powder. I'm not sure though, let me know if I'm wrong.
Or you kidding me? 90g per millilitre? You mean 9000g/100ml???