Extractions&Ire - 2018-11-06
In this video I buy some Antimony (an element I can't pronounce) and we do a high temperature distillation and put a pump in a kettle and put algae in my mouth. What could go wrong. https://sciencesupply.com.au/shop/ Have a look at this site. For full transparency, it is a bit of a sponsorship deal in the sense that I said 'hey could I have some glassware if I do something cool with it and show it off' and ScienceSupply said 'sure mate', so everything nice I say about them is genuine. Also, if you do end up buying something from ScienceSupply, you can use the code SCIEI where it asks for a code. This wont give you a discount, and certainly doesn't give me any money, but lets you the company know that you went there because of me. That then goes on to show that Youtube Chemistry actually is a cool partner to work with, and might lead to more sponsorship things like this in future (if people think that's a good idea). That purchase code again is SCIEI. Cool. Anyway, Links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ExplosionsandFire Twitter: https://twitter.com/Explosions_Fire Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ExplosionsAndFire/ Other Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqONNjBkukcc2yXbmHL8niQ
this guy is so rich he bought anti-money
I'm waiting for the woosh comments
We can make Anti Money, but only with great difficulty and much energy expenditure, as the coinage has to be crashed together in the light, at practically the speed of dark. ;)
That's called "investing in a kickstarter project"
Nah he wouldn't be able to have any of that here on Earth because the matter that makes up our air would react very violently with the antimatter that makes up the anti-cloth that the anti-people use to make their anti-money.
Lmfaoo that quiet subtle “antimony” whisper at 2:17
Like voice acting you have a key phrase you say to get started and get ready. Like hes hyping himself up lol
It’s “heaps cool”..
Spot the south aussie...
Haha yeah goddamn this regional dialect
Great vid. Massive color changes. Distillation of a metal salt at less than hellish temperatures. Rarely seen metalloid chemistry. Success. What more could we want? Thanks Tom!
Thanks for the comment! I thought this was going to be pretty boring when I first started so I'm pleased at how nice and interesting the video turned out
That color change is possibly due to a peroxo-metal complex. I know titanium likes to do that. It dissolves at an ungodly slow speed in HCl forming a purple solution; and, when you add hydrogen peroxide, it suddenly goes a very intense and bright orange color as it forms peroxo-titanium chloride.
TiCl3? I'm sure that purple solution is a bit of titanium trichloride forming.
I wonder if someone's trying to make explosive antimony.
HE KNOWS TOO MUCH, OFF WITH HIS HEAD!
Extractions&Ire GayestPersonOnYouTube is one of my favorite people ever <3
This whole thread is filled with the greats of youtube chemistry. Even Rhodanide is here! 😁
Antimony fulminate?
@Guy That That'd be interesting.
Antimony triacetate exists. Yes. I'm sure Sb + 3 CH3COOH = Sb(CH3COO)3 = 3/2 H2
Then add sodium chlorite, and make Sb(ClO2)3.
Extractions&Ire, do it and post it on your 2nd channel, Extractions&Fire2!
11:12 good safe technique 👌
LOL. Yeah. I was thinking, "Is self-sacrifice the same as dedication?"
When you take as much MMS as I do, you literally cannot get a bacterial infection 😍😍😍
"Antimoney" ... "alright we got our antinomey powder now"
anti-money
I was always thinking that when hearing the word lol
pumping boiling water through a condenser thats heated by an electric kettle
By this point, you should just buy a used microwave, drill a hole on the top and stick a condenser on it to run microwave experiments. Maybe everything will go faster.
I mean I do have a used microwave! It was on the side of the road down my street, I picked it up and tried it and to my surprise it still works fine! I hardly find any use for it though. Regular lab things just don't need to be microwaved.... So maybe I should drill a hole in its roof!
Yeah! I'm specifially mentioning trying to do microwave chemistry. After drilling a hole on top, if you jack up a glass connector connecting a double condenser at the top and a flask at the bottom, I think you could run pretty much any organic/salt based reactions within minutes since microwaves are so much more efficient at providing enough bond vibrational energy to pass the activation barrier rather than convection. Stirring though...
@Extractions&Ire Stir with ceramic magnets (cheap, black Barium Ferrite jobbies), which remain magnetized at rather elevated temperatures, and (TTBOMK) are quite non-conductive. They are probably what is inside the usual Teflon-coated stirrer magnets. You will need to arrange a motor drive below the oven if it does not have any (or enough) spin built in. I suggest using a Teflon pipe to hold the drive magnet. @Hamizan Amran
@YodaWhat Exactly the science stuff this guy said. Go phsysics and things.
Gotta love the Aussie ingenuity and pure contempt for safety, you make a fellow Aussie proud and brings a tear to my eyes.
Probably didn’t need to pump any water through your short path. But I’ve tried that as well before. Just using an aquarium air pump works pretty well. The air cools it enough. But not too much. Cool synth tho
Good thought, I just didn't know how it would do with the short-path. The SbCl3 was still coming through real hot, like 100C, which was fine but without the water cooling it might have been 150C which is pretty high... Probably still fine though.
Also, I don't yet have a air pump I could use here. I've got to build one for the ozone project so maybe this will be a solution I could do in future
17:09 I'm already subscribed to both channels : )
I wonder if the solids left over from the distillation aren't primarily antimony oxides (and whatever other impurities, but that Sb looked very nice and crystalline in the beginning. Arsenic halides are also volatile, so be careful). Mellor, Vol 9 , p. 469 (sciencemadness library) has some information on the preparation of the trichloride. Peroxide probably wasn't the best oxidizer due to antimony's tendency to form oxyhalides. Nitric acid in small amounts would probably be better. Since the trichloride decomposes on distillation, you can probably recover more by dissolving the residues in HCl under reflux and distilling again. I guess distilling it in a current of dry HCl or even Cl2 may prevent decomposition.
Awesome video as always, love the style mate!
antinomy :D
excellent job, perfect example of use of short path condenser. congrats from San Antonio, TX USA Prof bill
Antimony can also be used to modify the silicon eutectic phase in Al-Si alloys, changing the shape from large needles that cause cracks into small particles which provide the desired effect of strengthening the alloy. Sodium and strontium can also be used for this.
They got a great eutectic called galinstan, for the three elements gallium, indium and tin (stan can be seen as in stannous chloride, eg) and even behaves similarly to mercury tho is nontoxic.
Good video man. :)
0:22 whats that gem in the background...
My current job (pre covid, hopefully after I'll be back) is in the ball mill at an antimony mine. Dirty gig, but not my worst job.
Laboy on Amazon sells really cheap glassware that we actively use in our research lab
The best master is an eternal student, my fren. Nice channel.
organoantimony stuff is pretty cool...
Hii bro I'm Indian master of chemistry student ❤️
12:40 omg... Just air cool it xD
Awesome, I love your videos mate. Can I just say, when you fondle your glassware over concrete it makes me feel very uneasy. Do it over grass and I'll enjoy your videos even more. 😁 Greetings from the UK.
Can't you use the antimony to make fluoroantimonic acid? C:
I love how he intentionally says it wrong and people still try to correct him.
At first I thought that he intentionally mispronounced the word, but by the 10th time he did it I changed my mind
"Anti-moan-E"
7:40
or metalloid if you must
555 5
But what will you do with SbCl3?
antinomy
Make floroantimonic acid!
I didn't know gloves are necessary we touch antimony lead alloy all the time!
Thanks for the Science supply mention
It's nice to see at least some goods being produced here
@Matty: Sweet deal! Think they'll ship a few of those to me here in the States? =-)
@Matty That's a pretty great deal, thanks for the tip!
@JamesG Probably not mate
You can ask them but generally companies don't like shipping corrosive materials
If you want to get some just send emails to the chemical suppliers around your city and try and find one that will sell to you
All the best
@Matty: Should have used a winky! ;-)
But I was slightly serious in a way. Nitric acid is difficult to buy OTC around here. I have thus far simply made my own, never needed much at any one time. But I would sure be pleased to have a few liters smiling at me on the shelf. :-)
@JamesG This video might be able to help
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzu3UidPkro&t=0s&index=316&list=PLYUR7QpAvoXpybCVHEZpnBKiSyATUyfK4
Gorgeous.
When you started I thought you were going to react with Cl2. Might be interesting.
I thought about Cl2, I don't often pass up an opportunity to use it, I've stated my love for working with it a few times before. But I think antimony is just a bit unreactive, so we'd need to heat the system too, and really dry the chlorine, and I think it looked just a bit messy. Glad I took the aqueous route
@Extractions&Ire Aww, does this mean you're not gonna make the pentachloride? :-/
@JamesG I... wasn't even really aware SbCl5 existed. That's cool, maybe I will! Perhaps I should find something to chlorinate first
Its ironic how i absolutely love watching you and Cody'sLab but almost failed Chem. back in high school.
OMG yayyyyyyyyyyyyyy, thank you so much for coming back mister explosion kun. Dude literally you make my day so much better.
You're a legend mate
Seconded. It's election day here. Distractions most especially welcome. ;-)
@JamesG yeah good luck over there fam, seems like a stressful day
@Extractions&Ire: It went kinda okay. :-/
@JamesG I live in a town with less than 2,000 people so there was quite literally no line.
I laugh every single time you say "antimony".... Say it so different than Americans
Coolest video yet visually
Great book on sciencemadness library called chem of fire and explosives first few chapters deals w pyrotechnics, or fireworks production and this element in a salt form finds use in "star" production.
Make SbCl5.
And then HSbCl6 in teflon.
It is way easier to prepare than HSbF6.
What do you use it for?
Do electrolysis with molten antimony chloride
wow 100 grams for 12$ AU shipped... so that seems about 10 ¢ US shipped!
I love the idea of putting the pump in a kettle! That’s some true ingenuity
I just kept pouring the hot water from the kettle into the foam box with the pump and then as I was doing it I just thought "........hey..."
Metal? Isn't it a metalloid?
Hask A - 2018-11-06
It's pronounced antimony
J H - 2020-04-17
Anti-moan-ie, that's how I've always heard it pronounced (in 'Murica)
Meme Magic - 2020-04-18
@JamesG Well you got what you wished for, you happy?
JamesG - 2020-04-18
@Meme Magic So far so good. Working now on something that kills the young ones.
Hans Dorn - 2020-08-20
It's pronounced stibium, hence the Sb symbol :)
Ariemius - 2020-08-28
@J H same but I automatically guessed we say it differently because we gotta be special