@@flynnbrowning5685 I remember a while back there was a clip of making cyanide from potassium ferrocyanide. He had to pull the video though because APPARENTLY it's against TOS to show the production of cyanide on YT
@@nunyabisnass1141 I'm planning to make a similar thermite. I will either use an airtight system so the H2S can be burned or I will use an oxidiser, probably bleach to hydrolyze it. Seeing how exothermic the hydrolysis is an airtight system leading the H2S into bleach would probably be best
I work at a cement plant, and the mills definitely add mass to the final product which is directly linked to the microscopic fragments of the steel balls during the milling process. the steel balls even need to be eventually replaced after a certain time
@@Amateur.Chemistry we used to destroy H2S and other contaminants like NOX at a company I used to work for. We had a natural gas flare that very effectively destroyed these chemicals. The key is to make the flame larger than the gas stream. I always mention it when I see folks that produce NOx or H2S because it was so simple and didn’t require chemicals. Anyway, love watching your videos. This one was epic!
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.
@@ChemCrafter vinegar is fine for most carbonates and hydroxides. It probably isn't sufficient for some oxides and base metals. Particularly silver and lead. But the sulfates are insoluble so sulfuric and hydrochloric won't work for those.
@@lrmackmcbride7498 That's interesting, cheaper, safer and more readily available than sulfuric acid, and gold panning makes a lot of sense too and wouldn't take much more time considering the amount of washing needed anyway.
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.
Those are referred to as "cat's whisker" crystals because of the thin stiff wire used to probe with. They act as a diode. You can make an AM radio with not much more than the crystal and a coil of wire and earphones.
When ball milling, pieces of the milling media always end up in the product. The 2g the chemistry gods bestowed upon you were likey Iron dust from the balls
"that somehow survived the acid's treatment" -- iron oxides are wildly insoluble in water; it takes a lot of acid, heat and time to do this job! I would think more like 20% H2SO4, and boiling that for at least hours but probably days, would significantly whiten the sample here. Complexes also help; HCl might work faster (if you don't mind the fumes..!), or EDTA even faster still (Evaporust(R) etc.). Acid washing after grinding of course helps too -- the mass gain was probably iron filings from the balls wearing. Another giveaway: the solution was hardly tinted, and it didn't look like anything precipitated on neutralization (or at least much). (Precipitate would be fine enough to wash out, but obviously keeping it in solution would be preferable. Maybe after mixing it around, you neutralized mostly excess acid? That would be fine too.) 99% pure silica sand is off-white to bright white, and can even be mined as such in a few places(!). It's not obvious if your sand can get quite that pure (the grains themselves might be tinted, or are trapping impurities), you'd have to microscope a few. Or perhaps assay the final product? :)
I can already smell the chlorine and SiCl4 forming. Nice video and great yield, but when I've seen this done before they usually dissolve the sand in molten alkali to give sodium silicate, which they filter the junk out of and then acidify to precipitate hydrated silica, which is what they use in the thermite reaction.
Thanks! I've actually done this exact thing on a much smaller scale a year ago, but since sand is already quite pure silicon dioxide I just didn't want to bother with the silicate purification process on such a large scale. Also, you are right about the SiCl4, I actually just finished making it and it is a really nasty chemical :)
Your videos hit me differently! I really like how you tend to work on very large scales in comparison to other chemistry channels - personally im fascinated by working on a large scale as it further proves the feasibility of the experiment as production procedures.
Nice job, also because you showed how to perform dangerous, hazardous chemical reaction in socks... Some advices for next time: I think this reaction should be performed in a ceramic pot, as old alchemist ones, in a chimney, so you can at least direct toxic gases towards the top or eventually filter.
The extra 2g gain after ball milling must be the iron particles weathered from the steel balls and walls of the coffee cans. It would have helped to run the powdered sand through a magnet again to remove the powdered iron particles.
That was actually surprisingly simple! (but a lot more deadly than I would have expected lol) I'm hoping you melt some of the silicon and pull one large crystal from it.... All you have to do is heat it up until it glows and melts (and then keep the silicon just molten enough to be viscous and solidify if a small amount is pulled out and held a few inches above the surface) and then use a small piece of silicon (I THINK you need to use a piece that is already crystalized... so the stuff you have PROBABLY won't work since any crystals thats formed are probably very small and mixed throughout the silicon matrix randomly... so it might be best to use a trash cpu or gpu... but you HAVE TO use the bottom most layer... like if using one similar to what you had shown in this video you would want to peel it off of the PCB substrate and clean off any glue or reside used to hold it to the PCB and expose the 99.999% PURE silicon used on that very bottom layer [which is the thickest piece of silicon in the chip] which is QUITE THIN, so you should probably break the chip in small pieces, keep a note of which part is the bottom silicon layer, and if possible to see, mark where you see the fist player of non-silicon material is bonded to the silicon) glued to a solid metal wire about 2 or 3mm wide, or thick and strong enough to hold the weight of the molten silicon) and you dip JUST THE SILICON CRYSTAL (no further than the marking you might have made earlier) into the molten silicon, hold it in there long enough for the molten silicon to stick to the piece you glued to the metal wire and then you SLOWLY pull the wire up and out... You also MIGHT want to ROTATE the container of molten silicon ... (I'm not too sure you need it to be rotating since you aren't trying to make a perfectly round crystal... that's just what they do when they're pulling a crystal for making silicon wafers for computers chips) - You could also just melt the silicon until its molten and then remove the heat slowly to allow it to cool down VERY SLOWLY just in the container you melted it in, and forgo using a seed crystal like I described above (idk why I went through typing all that out LOL I DOUBT you are planning on making transistors with this LOL - But you should at least melt it down to remove all the gasses dissolved in it that are creating all those ugly holes... You have plenty to experiment with, so I think you should give it a try and make another awesome video!!! - That was AMAZING!!! THANK YOU!
Did you consider making sodium silicate with your sand, then adding it to an acid(even white vinegar works) while stirring to create silica gel particles? This could help purify your sand before making thermite, it would make the sand into smaller non-crystalline particles (easier to grind if they’re too big after the reaction) I also wonder about creating a pure silicone dioxide and aluminum thermite, then using the sulfurous thermite you made as a separate layer under or on top of it to drive the reaction forward with maybe less sulfur contamination? Or even a traditional iron thermite instead of the sulfurous mix? Very cool stuff.
I laughed so hard watching this. It gave me an idea for larger areas with poor soil. Simply crap on it fit a decade. I subbed. Love the commentary and subtext.
I like that if you wash dirt it becomes sand! They should add that to minecraft lol. Seriously it makes a lot of sense in hindsight as to why beaches are sand and not dirt now, the beaches used to be dirt but the water cleaned it until only sand was left.
Have you considered using a cheap furnace to add the extra heat instead of sulfur with more aluminum? I've seen plenty of DIY-bult furnaces powered by electricity, or propane, or food oil, or any other heat source. It might be easier to deal with than all that hydrogen sulfide.
@@Amateur.Chemistry I've seen videos of people melting cast iron and copper with homemade propane or food oil furnaces made with materials like fire bricks, kaowool blankets, and high-temperature mortar. That might be hot enough since it is over 1200C to properly melt cast iron and that's most of the way to silicon's melting point, the heat of the reaction might be enough to get it the rest of the way there. With ideally no volatile materials involved, the reaction ought to be reasonably tame. Granted I'm no expert and have no space where I could test such a thing.
Melting metal with wood is a lot of work. Wood fires lose heat very fast. So if you miss the chance to refuel it with wood everything will just stop and need to be restarted. Ive been trying to calcinate egg shells for awhile and i haven’t been able to calcinate more then a few grams at a time.
You should have separated the spent hydrochloric acid from the sand before neutralizing it. the dissolved solids would have dropped out of solution separate from your washed sand. as it is you have increased the necessary work & increased contamination.
So in theory controlled hydrogen sulfide attacks using aluminum and water would be possible. Interesting to know one more man made horror well within my comprehension.
I would be Very Happy if you 1. made a crystal radio from the silicon and 2. Produced either a home made diode or transistor from the silicon, or even better still, a silicon solar Cell!
I would guess at least some of the extra weight after the ball mill was from the metal abrading off the balls. Probably easy enough to get it out with the magnet, though if you're adding thermite, it really won't matter in the end.
From wikipdia on Ceramic. Ceramic material is an inorganic, metallic oxide, nitride, or carbide material. Some elements, such as carbon or silicon, may be considered ceramics.
Maybe the 2g added to the ultrafine SiO2 dust is steel dust? I think SiO2 is slightly harder than steel, so it could have abraded steel from the ball mill balls or can walls. So you maybe re-added iron (and a small amount of carbon) even though you ran the Nd magnet through the original sand to remove the iron contaminant.
Having undergone the gastest ever site induction for working in an aluminium powder plant, which comprises of " if you hear the alarm, run, keep running, keep running, i would strongly recommend you consider this. Apparently 1 or 2 aluminium powder plant somewhere in the world goes bang. Its pretty scary.
Using dirt to make silicon is interesting but man, dealing with all those impurities must _ssuuuhhuuuuck_ if you're going for electronics grade Si. Also need vacuum chambers and to hold the temp at 1100C for 200 to 300 hours to react SiCl with hydrogen to make pure Si and HCl. Simple in principle but _really really_ energy intense. Still. Ya got some reasonable Si with your grill. That's pretty cool.
I bet your increase post ball milling is due to some of the iron from the balls getting abraded into your sand powder. which would be good to separate with a magnet afterwards?
If you ever have to do this again, wrap the magnet with a plastic bag first before sand surfing for metal. The magnet is much easier to clean afterwards!
Did I miss something? I don't understand how the aluminum oxide was removed? Was it washed away by water because it was in very tiny particles? Or did the alumina fuse with the silicon?
The extra weight of sand after grinding is probably iron from balls and cans :) The whole movie was mega interesting, funny and positive, as well as your channel. Keep doing it and you will reach the top someday! (PS: Kiedy kolejny film?)
Im gonna make a ball mill out of a tread mill to piss of my neighbors. They literally stomp around at 2 am and cook food. 11:25 it should be able to roll 100 plus pound of material at a time and should sound like the ball mill factory in china (also known as hell on earth)
Bro stirring the conc. sulphuric acid with his hand is making lab techs around the world toss in their sleep
Moments like this make my day.
Not just lab techs but EVERYONE who has anything to do in a lab
When his hand started going in for the first stir, I felt my butthole pucker up and then burped out a fart.
I jumped from my chair when i saw that lmao
Yea he has some really good gloves 😂😂😂
18:24 casually releasing H2S that is enough to wipe out a whole village.
That clip had me in full fight or flight mode, probably the single most casually dangerous chemistry video on RUclips right now lmao.
@@flynnbrowning5685 I remember a while back there was a clip of making cyanide from potassium ferrocyanide. He had to pull the video though because APPARENTLY it's against TOS to show the production of cyanide on YT
thats litterally a weapon
very cool, notes taken.
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.
Real baller move I have to say
So, what would be the process of neutralizing it while being produced?
@@nunyabisnass1141 Breathe it in, lungs are kinda like filters! 😃
@@nunyabisnass1141 (Put water and neutralise with any base)
@@nunyabisnass1141 I'm planning to make a similar thermite. I will either use an airtight system so the H2S can be burned or I will use an oxidiser, probably bleach to hydrolyze it. Seeing how exothermic the hydrolysis is an airtight system leading the H2S into bleach would probably be best
The extra 2g of ‘sand’ is probably steel from the cans!
No, my friend. Such are gifts of chemistry gods. Or the scales god went on holidays.
And balls. Somewhy no one consider that sand grinds balls as well as balls grind sand
@@user-ui6xt4fd1f Balls haha
I work at a cement plant, and the mills definitely add mass to the final product which is directly linked to the microscopic fragments of the steel balls during the milling process. the steel balls even need to be eventually replaced after a certain time
@@pogan1983hahahahaha
next make video: making an i7 intel cpu with the silicon
the next video after: My DIY 14th gen i7 Intel CPU keeps crashing
I want too see it
ruclips.net/video/XrEC2LGGXn0/видео.htmlsi=3xT_591w3xURtNAv homemade silicon chip
@@izziebthe next next video: turning my INTEL core i7 14700k to a RYZEN 7 7800x3d through the power of CHEMISTRY
With all the issues Intel is having with their processors I bet his would be more stable.
Ah my favorite chemistry channel: Turning dirt into things that do not look like dirt
welllll dirt has silicon, so it technically looks like dirt
7:18 "The dirt was so dirty it just refused to cooperate." 🤣
The most groundbreaking sentence ever said
#brandnewsentence
0:03 i thought i was watching "amature chemestry" not "dank pods"
H2S is flammable. It can be directed to a flame or ignited for safe destruction.
Yeah, but all the steam generated by the heat of the reaction would probably stop it from burning and it would produce SO2 which is also quite nasty
@@Amateur.Chemistry You can feed the SO2 into a lead chamber and make H2SO4
@@Amateur.Chemistry we used to destroy H2S and other contaminants like NOX at a company I used to work for. We had a natural gas flare that very effectively destroyed these chemicals. The key is to make the flame larger than the gas stream. I always mention it when I see folks that produce NOx or H2S because it was so simple and didn’t require chemicals. Anyway, love watching your videos. This one was epic!
Churning sulphuric acid by hands is such a power move
I'm just amazed at the sheer amount of H2S 💀💀💀
Sulfur what Sulfur u mean the Sulfur from the sulfuric acid or was is a mistake and u meant Si for silicon
The extra mass after using the ball mill is probably coming from the ball bearings literally getting sanded down.
The ball bearings are definitely softer than quartz, which is probably in almost any dirt.
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.
Is vinegar really strong enough? Or would you need glacial acetic acid?
@@ChemCrafter vinegar is fine for most carbonates and hydroxides. It probably isn't sufficient for some oxides and base metals. Particularly silver and lead. But the sulfates are insoluble so sulfuric and hydrochloric won't work for those.
@@lrmackmcbride7498 That's interesting, cheaper, safer and more readily available than sulfuric acid, and gold panning makes a lot of sense too and wouldn't take much more time considering the amount of washing needed anyway.
@@ChemCrafter and the stuff that forms insoluble sulfates and chlorides is usually the heaviest portion so gravity separation will leave it behind.
@@ChemCrafteradd hydrogen peroxide to the vinegar.
That 99.9999% pure silicon was the remains of a formerly perfect boule.
My man larped WWII chemical warfare at the comfort of his home. Anyway, nice processing.
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.
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...
It would be possible to make a very inefficient diode from it, but hey... isn't it a hint on a new experiment?
That's very interesting! I will look into it and maybe in the future make it into a video :)
Those are referred to as "cat's whisker" crystals because of the thin stiff wire used to probe with. They act as a diode. You can make an AM radio with not much more than the crystal and a coil of wire and earphones.
Great, now I'm waiting for someone to turn silicon back to 99.99% pure dirt and my life is complete.
When ball milling, pieces of the milling media always end up in the product. The 2g the chemistry gods bestowed upon you were likey Iron dust from the balls
"that somehow survived the acid's treatment" -- iron oxides are wildly insoluble in water; it takes a lot of acid, heat and time to do this job! I would think more like 20% H2SO4, and boiling that for at least hours but probably days, would significantly whiten the sample here. Complexes also help; HCl might work faster (if you don't mind the fumes..!), or EDTA even faster still (Evaporust(R) etc.). Acid washing after grinding of course helps too -- the mass gain was probably iron filings from the balls wearing.
Another giveaway: the solution was hardly tinted, and it didn't look like anything precipitated on neutralization (or at least much). (Precipitate would be fine enough to wash out, but obviously keeping it in solution would be preferable. Maybe after mixing it around, you neutralized mostly excess acid? That would be fine too.)
99% pure silica sand is off-white to bright white, and can even be mined as such in a few places(!). It's not obvious if your sand can get quite that pure (the grains themselves might be tinted, or are trapping impurities), you'd have to microscope a few. Or perhaps assay the final product? :)
I can already smell the chlorine and SiCl4 forming. Nice video and great yield, but when I've seen this done before they usually dissolve the sand in molten alkali to give sodium silicate, which they filter the junk out of and then acidify to precipitate hydrated silica, which is what they use in the thermite reaction.
Thanks! I've actually done this exact thing on a much smaller scale a year ago, but since sand is already quite pure silicon dioxide I just didn't want to bother with the silicate purification process on such a large scale. Also, you are right about the SiCl4, I actually just finished making it and it is a really nasty chemical :)
You chemistry peeps put so much dang work into these videos and I really appreciate it
Thanks!
Your videos hit me differently! I really like how you tend to work on very large scales in comparison to other chemistry channels - personally im fascinated by working on a large scale as it further proves the feasibility of the experiment as production procedures.
Nice job, also because you showed how to perform dangerous, hazardous chemical reaction in socks... Some advices for next time: I think this reaction should be performed in a ceramic pot, as old alchemist ones, in a chimney, so you can at least direct toxic gases towards the top or eventually filter.
4:30 LOOKS LIKE WE'RE DOIN' HYDRONEER BOYS
Great stuff; I love that you show a condensed version of every step.
The extra few grams are from all the smashed glassware. If you smash enough, I hear you occasionally get 250% yields when doing yellow chemistry
5:48 You can't hide it from me. What is seen cannot be unseen
lol I didn't think anyone would notice it
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This is very sus Ngl
The extra 2g gain after ball milling must be the iron particles weathered from the steel balls and walls of the coffee cans. It would have helped to run the powdered sand through a magnet again to remove the powdered iron particles.
That was actually surprisingly simple! (but a lot more deadly than I would have expected lol)
I'm hoping you melt some of the silicon and pull one large crystal from it.... All you have to do is heat it up until it glows and melts (and then keep the silicon just molten enough to be viscous and solidify if a small amount is pulled out and held a few inches above the surface) and then use a small piece of silicon (I THINK you need to use a piece that is already crystalized... so the stuff you have PROBABLY won't work since any crystals thats formed are probably very small and mixed throughout the silicon matrix randomly... so it might be best to use a trash cpu or gpu... but you HAVE TO use the bottom most layer... like if using one similar to what you had shown in this video you would want to peel it off of the PCB substrate and clean off any glue or reside used to hold it to the PCB and expose the 99.999% PURE silicon used on that very bottom layer [which is the thickest piece of silicon in the chip] which is QUITE THIN, so you should probably break the chip in small pieces, keep a note of which part is the bottom silicon layer, and if possible to see, mark where you see the fist player of non-silicon material is bonded to the silicon) glued to a solid metal wire about 2 or 3mm wide, or thick and strong enough to hold the weight of the molten silicon) and you dip JUST THE SILICON CRYSTAL (no further than the marking you might have made earlier) into the molten silicon, hold it in there long enough for the molten silicon to stick to the piece you glued to the metal wire and then you SLOWLY pull the wire up and out... You also MIGHT want to ROTATE the container of molten silicon ... (I'm not too sure you need it to be rotating since you aren't trying to make a perfectly round crystal... that's just what they do when they're pulling a crystal for making silicon wafers for computers chips)
- You could also just melt the silicon until its molten and then remove the heat slowly to allow it to cool down VERY SLOWLY just in the container you melted it in, and forgo using a seed crystal like I described above (idk why I went through typing all that out LOL I DOUBT you are planning on making transistors with this LOL - But you should at least melt it down to remove all the gasses dissolved in it that are creating all those ugly holes... You have plenty to experiment with, so I think you should give it a try and make another awesome video!!! - That was AMAZING!!! THANK YOU!
I love your intelligence, accent, comments, humour, Curiosity. Keep up the good work sir👍🏻.
...it was too expensive so I sold my other kidney..." He s just chill like that
Did you consider making sodium silicate with your sand, then adding it to an acid(even white vinegar works) while stirring to create silica gel particles? This could help purify your sand before making thermite, it would make the sand into smaller non-crystalline particles (easier to grind if they’re too big after the reaction)
I also wonder about creating a pure silicone dioxide and aluminum thermite, then using the sulfurous thermite you made as a separate layer under or on top of it to drive the reaction forward with maybe less sulfur contamination? Or even a traditional iron thermite instead of the sulfurous mix?
Very cool stuff.
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@@Amateur.Chemistrywtf ty Polak co jest
NileRed really set the standard way of how to make chemistry videos
When your a kid getting your hands on some dirty dirt is the best. The dirtier the better.
I laughed so hard watching this. It gave me an idea for larger areas with poor soil. Simply crap on it fit a decade.
I subbed. Love the commentary and subtext.
Google Night Soil. People have been on that grindset for thousands of years
I like that if you wash dirt it becomes sand! They should add that to minecraft lol. Seriously it makes a lot of sense in hindsight as to why beaches are sand and not dirt now, the beaches used to be dirt but the water cleaned it until only sand was left.
Thanks!
Thank you very much!
Killer humour man I love it ! Very entertaining video
Thanks!
Have you considered using a cheap furnace to add the extra heat instead of sulfur with more aluminum? I've seen plenty of DIY-bult furnaces powered by electricity, or propane, or food oil, or any other heat source. It might be easier to deal with than all that hydrogen sulfide.
Fantastic comment. Probably better purity, too.
This could work, but I wonder how vigorous would the reaction be and such a heat source would need to go up to a really high temperature
@@Amateur.Chemistry I've seen videos of people melting cast iron and copper with homemade propane or food oil furnaces made with materials like fire bricks, kaowool blankets, and high-temperature mortar. That might be hot enough since it is over 1200C to properly melt cast iron and that's most of the way to silicon's melting point, the heat of the reaction might be enough to get it the rest of the way there. With ideally no volatile materials involved, the reaction ought to be reasonably tame.
Granted I'm no expert and have no space where I could test such a thing.
Melting metal with wood is a lot of work. Wood fires lose heat very fast. So if you miss the chance to refuel it with wood everything will just stop and need to be restarted. Ive been trying to calcinate egg shells for awhile and i haven’t been able to calcinate more then a few grams at a time.
@@fajile5109 electric is the way to go. No hot exhaust reduces energy consumption considerably.
You should have separated the spent hydrochloric acid from the sand before neutralizing it. the dissolved solids would have dropped out of solution separate from your washed sand. as it is you have increased the necessary work & increased contamination.
Quite enjoyed this! 🙏🏼 Thanks bro, you just keep doin You and we will be out here supporting Ya!
9:13 bro is wearing the forbidden combo footwear!
The ultimate chemistry fit
So in theory controlled hydrogen sulfide attacks using aluminum and water would be possible. Interesting to know one more man made horror well within my comprehension.
Awesome video keep such content coming👍🏻
Thank you!
Your videos are great to watch !!!
I would be Very Happy if you 1. made a crystal radio from the silicon and 2. Produced either a home made diode or transistor from the silicon, or even better still, a silicon solar Cell!
thanks to with your tutorial brazillian industry will finally be able to produce their own electronic chips
@12:45 The extra mass is probably iron from your ball mill balls.
Bro Keep Up These Videos I love them
We're getting closer to what medieval alchemists have been striving for.
19:24 bro's doing dangerous chemicals reaction while wearing simple sandals. Balls of steel
Cool video! I’m waiting for another one 🎉❤
Great video. Maybe you should have used some butter or oil to cook that egg tho it looked like it got stuck to the pan
Thanks! I didn't really think the cooking part through, but fortunately the egg was still yummy :)
12:18 "Ball Mill of Madness" is a cool band name🙃
I would guess at least some of the extra weight after the ball mill was from the metal abrading off the balls. Probably easy enough to get it out with the magnet, though if you're adding thermite, it really won't matter in the end.
Another banger of a video!
Thanks!
*loosely covers hole so he can forget about it and break his ankle on a later date*
From wikipdia on Ceramic. Ceramic material is an inorganic, metallic oxide, nitride, or carbide material. Some elements, such as carbon or silicon, may be considered ceramics.
casually pours sulphuric acid :D
i got a bottle of these as a drain cleaner, it was burning everything in it's path.
the H2S PART SCARED THE CRAP OUT OF ME
Maybe the 2g added to the ultrafine SiO2 dust is steel dust? I think SiO2 is slightly harder than steel, so it could have abraded steel from the ball mill balls or can walls.
So you maybe re-added iron (and a small amount of carbon) even though you ran the Nd magnet through the original sand to remove the iron contaminant.
Polski walter white
I love dirt chemistry
Hell yeah
Yell heah
The dirt where I live has more clay than sand. Would I still be able to do this?
The clay would be dissolved in the washing step.
Yeah, you just would need to use more acid for the cleaning step
Clay is light you can wash most of it away with water.
Having undergone the gastest ever site induction for working in an aluminium powder plant, which comprises of " if you hear the alarm, run, keep running, keep running, i would strongly recommend you consider this. Apparently 1 or 2 aluminium powder plant somewhere in the world goes bang. Its pretty scary.
The weight gain from the ball mill is iron shavings from the mill balls.
Undoing the hard work of fungi is the epitome of human hubris
Dude cleaned the dirt off the dirt
Love how this guy is the poor man's Nile Red.
9:20 your “contraption” the moment wind blows…
Using dirt to make silicon is interesting but man, dealing with all those impurities must _ssuuuhhuuuuck_ if you're going for electronics grade Si. Also need vacuum chambers and to hold the temp at 1100C for 200 to 300 hours to react SiCl with hydrogen to make pure Si and HCl. Simple in principle but _really really_ energy intense.
Still. Ya got some reasonable Si with your grill. That's pretty cool.
Seeing that Zeelandia bucket was unexpected. 🇳🇱🤝🇵🇱
I died a little when you washed away the clay
I'm soon going to try making some silicon from the carbothermal reduction of silicon dioxide it should be less dangerous
nice
Opal is for sure beautiful keep in mind grain size is everything
Jej! The blue plastic bucket is named after a province in my country 😂
Your black tray brought the temp up to a common temperature experienced in all of Texas on the average summer day.
I bet your increase post ball milling is due to some of the iron from the balls getting abraded into your sand powder. which would be good to separate with a magnet afterwards?
If you ever have to do this again, wrap the magnet with a plastic bag first before sand surfing for metal. The magnet is much easier to clean afterwards!
The extra 2 grams was spaulding from the iron balls and the ball mill
if you saved some of that aluminum oxide, that is the base for sapphire and with some chromates ruby.
9:25 Amazing, it looks EXACTLY like "play sand".
You should ball mill first then do the purification process
Bro produced enough fart gas to wipe out an entire city💀💀
Did I miss something? I don't understand how the aluminum oxide was removed? Was it washed away by water because it was in very tiny particles? Or did the alumina fuse with the silicon?
Can you make a video on how you made that rolling contraption?
Finely-powdered aluminium has a high surface-area-to-volume ratio, leading to a lot of aluminium oxide in the reactants.
The extra weight of sand after grinding is probably iron from balls and cans :) The whole movie was mega interesting, funny and positive, as well as your channel. Keep doing it and you will reach the top someday! (PS: Kiedy kolejny film?)
18:35. The neighbours hate him!
my guess is you have a very high yield because of the aluminum is mixed with the silicate. also why you were able to polish it.
Being a scientist, certainly you can explain your process for measuring and determining the sand is, infact, the sandiest sand? Please elaborate. :)
Im gonna make a ball mill out of a tread mill to piss of my neighbors. They literally stomp around at 2 am and cook food. 11:25 it should be able to roll 100 plus pound of material at a time and should sound like the ball mill factory in china (also known as hell on earth)
Next make video: Making an RTX 4090 from the silicon
Next make a CPU 😁😁
There should be 2 Grams of lead powder after the ball mill
13:38 me before going on a raid in rust