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How To Make Glow in the Dark Powder
How to make phosphorescent glow in the dark powder. Also known as luminescent, photoluminescent or simply glow powder. Warning: This experiment uses mildly toxic chemicals, wear gloves when handling them. In addition, the combustion reaction must be performed outside or in a fume-hood due to the resulting smoke and gasses. For this experiment you'll need: Strontium Nitrate: www.youtube.com Aluminum Nitrate: www.youtube.com Purification by recrystalization: www.youtube.com Europium and ...
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How to Purify by Recrystallization
We show how to purify aluminum nitrate and strontium nitrate by recrystallization. This is important because those two substances must be extremely pure for our upcoming video on making glow in the dark powder. First make aluminum nitrate from our previous video: www.youtube.com Dissolve the dry aluminum nitrate in water and filter off any insoluble materials. We could not filter it off before it dried in the previous video because the particles at that stage are much too small. It needs ...
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How to Make Aluminum Nitrate Nonahydrate
How to make aluminum nitrate nonhydrate, one of the chemicals needed to make glow in the dark powder. In an upcoming video we'll need aluminum nitrate nonahydrate. The chemical formula is Al(NO3)3.9H2O Warning: These reactions must be performed outside or in a fumehood. At first it might seem that simply mixing aluminum with nitric acid can be done. But interestingly enough, aluminum is immune to the effects of nitric acid. So in order to make aluminum nitrate a two step method is needed ...
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Make Europium and Dysprosium Nitrate salts.
In this video we make europium and dysprosium nitrate salts we'll need in upcoming videos. Instead of buying the salts directly from our chemical supply companies we decided to make them entirely using chemicals anyone can buy online or make themselves. In this case europium metal and dysprosium metal with nitric acid. The europium and dysprosium metal were purchased online from: elementsales.com The nitric acid was produced in our nitric acid video: www.youtube.com The procedures for both ...
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How to make a Desiccator Bag for Drying Chemicals
In this video we make a desiccator bag for thoroughly drying hygroscopic chemicals. Some chemicals are hygroscopic, meaning they absorb water from the air and become moist, mushy, or even liquefy. For highly accurate work and good results in experiments the chemicals should be dried before use. A laboratory device for doing this is called a desiccator. Laboratory desiccators use vacuum and drying agents. A simple home desiccator can be made from an airtight resealable plastic bag and a ...
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vlog: Where I get chemicals
In this first vlog I tell you where i order chemicals. First the professional sources, i get most of my research chemicals from these places: Alfa Aesar: www.alfa.com Sigma Adrich: www.sigmaaldrich.com TCI America: www.tciamerica.com Strem Chemicals: www.strem.com For individuals: Element sales: elementsales.com Maker shed: www.makershed.com United Nuclear: www.unitednuclear.com Glassware: www.chemglass.com Where other people get their chemicals: www.youtube.com
How To Make a 100ft Glow Stick!!!
How to make a 100 ft glow stick. Brighter than Electroluminescent wire and self-powered. This can be used to decorate, glow stuff up, or create all kinds of awesome effects. Warning: TCPO is carcinogenic and you should wear gloves and masks while working with it. The procedure is simple, mix together 500mg of 9,10-bis(phenylethynyl)anthracene and 17g of TCPO in 500ml of diethyl phthalate solvent and heat it up until it dissolves. Then top it up to about 2.1 liters and add 120ml of hydrogen ...
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How to Make Hot Ice - The Complete Guide
The complete guide to making hot ice and sodium acetate. How to create it, fix it, and use it. All methods from baking soda and vinegar to laboratory synthesis are shown. A full article on this video can be found at: sites.google.com The basis for hot ice is sodium acetate trihydrate, which is heated above its melting point and then cooled below its melting point so it's supercooled. It's still liquid and quickly solidifies when a seed crystal is introduced. You cannot use copper pots ...
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