Ammonium Hexachlorotellurate (from elemental tellurium)
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Have you got any on your skin, and is it true what they say about tellurium?
@badrinathrs dimethyl telluride, garlic breath 😋
I didn't notice this but I usually tend to avoid getting especially soluble metal salts on my skin
Did you get garlic breath from touching it?
@BarryMckinney-1981 I didn't notice but I might not have gotten enough of it on me mostly just steam and acid vapours when I'm handling the beakers
Tellurium, its salts, and its complexes do not cause "tellurium breath" simply by touching them. You'd have to eat a tellurium salt or compound (or possibly the amorphous element) to start getting the smell. Although if you eat those things you will have way worse problems than bad breath as tellurite, tellurate, and tellurium complexes are all fairly toxic. Organotellurium compounds are the best candidates for causing a chemist to stink simply by working with them. Although even there it's all very nebulous and ill-defined and I have to wonder what the hell these chemists are doing in the lab that they are absorbing organotellurium compounds in the first place. Always respect the organometallics.
@@PoorMansChemistI was wondering about this recently, I've never worked with it
@@amanitaocreata4401 It's a fun prep of a beautiful compound. The bromine analog is also a nice color.
Hi @PoorMansChemist
I know you've said before that electrolysis isn't your area but I'm wondering how you think an experiment like this might go. I've been wanting to do a prep that uses sparkling water as a reagent for a while now.
It's said that CO2 can be reduced to formic acid using a tin cathode in an electrolyte consisting of CO2 disolved in water and some amount of sodium/potassium carbonate/bicarbonate for conductivity.
If I have enough surface area of tin and it at least works I could use ethyl acetate to extract the resulting acid rather than using distillation since water and formic acid boil within a degree of each other. I'm thinking the efficiency might be very poor as it is so wouldn't want purification losses.
It would be a nicer route than distilling oxalic acid with glycerol. Where that produces acrolien this will only produce oxygen.