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How to make caesium

olympicfan2 - 2015-06-12

This video is about how to make caesium metal effectively and cheap. If you are interested in reading the whole manual, visit my article on "http://illumina-chemie.de/" - http://illumina-chemie.de/caesium-%28work-in-progress%29-t3804.html

AllChemystery - 2016-11-11

well done!

835728099 - 2015-09-10

Wow, you really cool!
I'm a fan of chemical, come from China.
I also made a lot of chemical elements of the samples, including rubidium and cesium.
Into your website and saw you hair, but it is a pity that I don't understand the content.
I hope we can make friends

brianoy - 2017-04-01

835728099 中國人?

天下第一坨s s - 2017-12-07

冥灵大佬

John Sheppard - 2019-01-27

Actually caesium is not that hard to get hold of and samples are insanely overpriced!
I mostly do PGMs processing and especially love iridium metal as it's astonishingly beautiful and so much resistant!I really admire how it's actually behaves when melted:it's the only refractory element that doesn't even tarnish and even it's sponge doesn't lose any fraction of it's weight when melted under open air which shows it's formidable characteristics!

Lazar Popović - 2016-04-20

You made quite a long brake... I think you should post videos regulary, since you do some pretty cool stuff!

Dennis W - 2019-03-05

Great job!

Justin Mason - 2016-06-01

Could you do this with just a normal, glass distillation apparatus?

Colin Roberson - 2016-06-27

The glass would melt at the temperature required to distill Cesium, a steel/iron container must be used.

Tesia Ajukwu - 2017-07-13

why does caesium reacts with water.why does it cause explosion.please answer my question i am curious ?

nabil m m fat - 2017-02-28

can you get it as a vapor cell

Phoo zzy - 2017-01-31

Aha! Deutscher Wissenschaftler! Ich mag dein Video. -Deutscher Physiker TUD

joe estes - 2017-01-22

NO GLOVES!

Pavel Same - 2017-10-13

how about you tell us how to mine cesium in nature or make it out of old electronics.

Robert Hn - 2016-05-07

bist du zufällig deutsch?;)

olympicfan2 - 2016-05-11

+Alles GamerTV Jup.

Robert Hn - 2016-05-11

wo kriegst du cäsiumchlorid her (möglichst billig)

olympicfan2 - 2016-05-13

Ich habe es bei Ebay bekommen. 250g für c.a 60€.

Robert Hn - 2016-05-16

ok danke

nabil m m fat - 2017-03-15

may you make a cesium vapor for sale

nabil m m fat - 2017-03-03

for sale

Kowboy USA - 2015-06-12

Real life MacGyver.

Tokaji Leo - 2016-05-21

is cesium salt toxic? i mean if you lick CsCl, what happens?

Justin Mason - 2016-06-01

It's definitely safe... well, you probably won't die if you picked it. Caesium Chloride is marketed as a treatment for cancer, so how bad could it be?

Colin Roberson - 2016-06-27

I've licked it before, it has a similar taste to Potassium Chloride. KCl tastes a little more potent than NaCl and CsCl is even more so.

Tokaji Leo - 2016-06-27

@Shrug
thanks. u are a brave man, and still alive :)

Dobbo Junior - 2016-05-24

To what ratio do you mix the CsCl and the Li, if I use 10g of CsCl how much Li do I need. Thanks

nikos karavitakis - 2017-03-22

0.52 g but its better to use an excess like 0.8 gramms

M zu dem R - 2017-02-22

kanbst du das selbe mit einer Tonspur auf deutsch machen..

NS.-. - 2019-01-29

Sind die deutsch?

Shadyrobot - 2016-08-30

Let's drop it in a lake

KvAT - 2016-09-24

not much would happen actually, for the scale of a lake

Jason Snowball - 2018-10-17

You mention that the items used here can be gotten from a hardware store... How/where did you get the Argon gas from?

olympicfan2 - 2018-10-17

You can get argon at most hardware stores as well. It´s used as MIG gas for welding. N2 etc. can also be used.

Jason Snowball - 2018-10-17

@olympicfan2 thanks! So MIG is usually argon mixed with CO2 ... will the high reaction temperature not cause issues with interference from the CO2 or N2 if used??

olympicfan2 - 2018-10-18

well, mig gas is actually without co2, MAG is metal active gas and contains small amounts of co2. but the protective gas isn´t for the distillaton but further for the sealing process of the ampoule.

INF2401 - 2016-12-25

woher bekommt man Argon

edi gora - 2017-03-02

In fast jedem Baumarkt, in der Schweißabteilung :)

Quantumcat - 2017-09-29

Woher hast du das Lithium? (Ich schreibe mal auf Deutsch,gehe davon aus dass du deutscher Bist:D)

olympicfan2 - 2017-09-30

Aus Energizer - Batterien... :)

Quantumcat - 2017-09-30

olympicfan2 Okay,Danke! Wieviele musstest du etwa öffnen?

olympicfan2 - 2017-09-30

Gute Frage. Ich glaube pro Batterie waren es etwas unter 1 g Li. Genau weiß ichs nicht mehr. Aber ich hatte mehrere Ampullen angefertigt (bestimmt 15g Cs insgesamt) und habe nicht mehr als 4 geöffnet. Was ist denn aus deinem Acetylenbrenner geworden? :D

Quantumcat - 2017-09-30

olympicfan2 Das ganze ist etwas verstaubt und die Heisskleberdichtung war auch nicht so ganz das wahre. Hab gerade nicht so Lust auf den :/ arbeite momentan auch an einer Methode cäsium herzustellen :) sowie einem Multifunktionalen kampfhandschuh :D

Leon Neumann - 2016-10-03

so german

ChemEx LK - 2015-10-05

Does this method work for making Barium metal ? ( Barium chloride + Lithium metal )

unusual chemist IONIZING HYDROGEN - 2016-09-26

Just decompose barium nitride.If you want Barium metal.

ChemEx LK - 2016-10-01

How I make barium nitride tell me please!!!

ChemEx LK - 2016-10-01

@unusual chemist IONIZING HYDROGEN how i make barium nitride ??

unusual chemist IONIZING HYDROGEN - 2016-10-01

Dhanushka Prasad I am really sorry but you can make Ba metal from Barium azide(BaN6) not Barium nitride(Ba3N2).kindly reply.sorry for the inconvenience.

ChemEx LK - 2016-10-01

@unusual chemist IONIZING HYDROGEN Its ok thank you

DOlz - 2015-06-12

I was wondering if instead of Argon you could use Nitrogen instead?

olympicfan2 - 2015-06-12

@DOlz Yes

DOlz - 2015-06-13

@olympicfan2 Thank you

Mikey Unovapix - 2015-10-28

+DOlz actuallly lithium would react with the lithium to create lithium nitride

olympicfan2 - 2015-10-29

+Mikey Unovapix Yes, but this is not important in this procedure. The Li is cold when the apparatus is flushed at first, so the amount of nitride formed is not disturbing the process. When the distillation takes place, the small amount of remaining nitrogen under vacuum also doesn´t harm neither the cs nor the Li. When flushed again at the end, the hot Li reacts with the N2 in a greater amount (when it´s still hot), yes. However, there is no disadvantage when this happenes at the end cause all of the Cs is already cold and distilled over and also well protected by the N2. B.t.w. I can tell you by my own experience that it works. I tried it many times as described in the link of the video description. ;-)

Dave Simpson - 2019-01-14

Argon is wilding gas its completely NOT flammable it used for mig welding to as shelding gas.

AllChemystery - 2018-02-17

Have you considered using an oxygen getter like NaK to firstly bubble the Ar through? I’m sure that welding gas is not 100% pure in my experience and you may get a nearly silver metal. Also why did you not distill directly after evacuating and with the pump on? The heating required would be far less.

olympicfan2 - 2018-02-17

Concidering that the apparatus is not completely air tight, I prefered to leave the pump on. It would have been possible to distill with Ar inside. But I think to disitill in a vacuum is the best option. Why do you think less heating would be required when the pump is turned off?

AllChemystery - 2018-02-17

olympicfan2 no I meant with the pump on. As we know vacuum reduces the Cs Boiling point and requirement for heating is less. I will probably end doing another Cs video but will be using vacuum and Ca metal as the reluctant this time.