How To Make Beautiful Crystals From Wood & Aluminum Foil
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In this video I show how to eaisly turn just some wood, battery acid and aluminum foil into beautiful and big crystals of potassium alum at home while having a tough time with the math.
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0:00 Intro
2:56 Turning Wood And Sulfuric Acid Into Potassium Sulfate
7:43 Making Aluminum Sulfate From Aluminum Foil
9:55 Making Potassium Aluminum Sulfate - Potassium Alum
10:52 Growing A Big Alum Crystal
13:03 Outro
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I love how the goal is to make it easy for a non-chemist to make and the first step is to extract pure battery acid
Back in the early '90s, I grew alum crystals for a science fair project in 7th grade. I also grew some other crystals (copper sulphate for sure, as well as sucrose and sodium chloride...but there were a couple other more exotic types...pretty sure one was chromium-based, while the other was a manganese salt). I obviously sourced the alum from the drug store, not wood, aluminum foil, and battery acid (lol, while awesome, that is a time-consuming and highly inefficient way to get alum when you can just...buy it). But aside from that, the process was the same. Super-saturate a solution, sprinkle some alum in, get the seed crystals, tie them to some fine fishing line, and grow them bigger. And over a few weeks, I did grow a couple gorgeous alum crystals. They were smallish - like maybe 6 or 7 mm in diameter, but they were perfectly clear and displayed a striking octahedral structure, just like little diamonds. It was a fun project, and I put a lot of time into it, but the judge still only awarded me a silver medal. OH, I was so mad...but I got over it.
Hey, when's the video of growing meth crystals for people who just want to enjoy making crystals and don't spend most of their time hoarding random chemicals in their garage?
i made some sodium acetate to play with and it really looks like dirty cheap meth. (uh, from Breaking Bad! I would never know what cheap meth looks like for real uh huh uh huh). I've got all these coffee filters with little yellowish crystals in my kitchen now :P
I read this comment at the same time he said it
Oh no 💀
Potassium nitrate crystals look a lot like meth.
Yeah but let's say we want crystal meth... Just because we respect the chemistry...
After the "...Make Some Beautiful Crystals" line I expected the 4chan ammonia, bleach and a straw infographic
And copper pennies, can't forget the pennies!
Yeah, I was like "Oh no, I aint falling for this a third time."
What was it
@@superdinero8 Mustard gas.
more wood ash chemistry would be cool. we throw out tons of it every year from our furnace.
I was thinking about making pottery with it, like the Primitive Technology guy. But there must be so much more cool stuff you can do. concrete maybe?
you can do alchemy stuff with it. extract its metals etc
Wood ash is the best source of pure potassium compounds uncontaminated with sodium.
In many situations, one alkali metal salt works better than the other.
For example, both alkali metal nitrates are oxidizing agents, but only KNO3 is used in gunpowder and pyrotechnics because NaNO3 is hygroscopic and water doesn't help things burn.
@@PogueMahone1 kn03 is not the only oxidiser used. it's the cheapest, but pro grade stuff, they have far better non hygroscopic chems to play with. perchlorates for example.
@@Palmit_ KNO3 is for black powder recipes, perchlorate is for higher energy mixtures.
Even here, KClO4 is used preferentially in the trade over NaClO4.
@Embassy_of_Jupiter Yeah, I saved the soaked ash and it looks like it has a ton of calcium salts in it which do kinda look like concrete, I will maybe explore this topic further in the future :)
Aluminum dissolves much easier in potassium hydroxide to form the aluminate, which could be made beforehand from calcium hydroxide (availble in every hardware store) and potash by a double displacement reaction called caustification. Adding sulfuric acid will convert the potassum aluminate into potassium sulfate and aluminum hydroxide, which redissolves again in an access of the acid. The resulting clear solution contains the desired alum then.
But now you will have filter calcium sulfate
No, calcium hydroxide reacts with potassium carbonate to form potassium hydroxide and insoluble calcium carbonate which is easy to filter off by gravity filtration (of not too concentrated solutions were used), before aluminum is added to the potassium hydroxide solution to be dissolved in there.
@@experimental_chemistry Whoops, sorry I somehow thought you were making calcium aluminate. But still, I wouldn't call calcium carbonate easy to filter either. That stuff really likes clogging filters.
@@chnhakk
No, not when letting the precipitate chill for a while until the gelatenous mass breaks down into a fine crystalline powder, which is easy to filter off by gravity or using a glass frit while doing vacuum filtration. But don't forget to rinse the frit with dilute hydrochloric acid and distilled water afterwards to clean the pores for the next use.
8:11 "pamiętaj chemiku młody kwas zawsze wlewaj do wody"
pamiętaj chemiku zawczasu, zawsze wlewaj wodę do kwasu
we have good saying in croatian, putting water into acid is VUK (voda u kiselinu)
VUK - wolf (dangerous animal)
Voda - h2o,
U - (to put something in, into)
Kiselina - acid
pozdrowienia dla polskich braci
“AAA” - always add acid. Is how I was taught to remember.
@@19MadMatt72 the creator is polish so i write in polish bc its a polish chemistry poem
I really love this video as alum was one of the first crystals i grew and its always been my favorite! I made a few kilos to grow a huge crystal in a bucket but never got around to it. Maybe its time 😆
I love how you made the potassium sulfate from potash that was a really cool touch!
I'm an idiot, but science fascinates me. This was fun to watch even though most of it was way beyond my skill set. Great video!
youd be surprised how many idiots go on to do things regardless, take the presidency for example
Scientists are just idiots that are curious about science.
Thanks!
@timothynelson6918
Beyond your skill set?
You can't boil water??
@@troywhite6039 Americans don't drink tea for a reason
That's very interesting! I'm curious to see how big you get that one crystal.
me too ? um would be cryioys about the electrical propertys of such crystals ? i mainly use quartz crystals been tinkering with . humm
Ech skoro już robiłeś potaż z drewna, to trzeba było drugą część ałunu też pełnym trybie DIY - z gliny, metodą prof. Stanisława Bretsznajdera :)
Ciekawy pomysł, pewnie kiedyś go wypróbuje :)
Who knew that Rolf from Edd, Edd, and Eddy would grow up to do chemistry? :P
🤣😂😁
I love the giant filter paper, not only because of the absurdity but it genuinely probably filtered about as quickly as if you were to use a vaccum filter since the huge surface area and high material volume you can process in one batch.
Very interesting project, finally something I can do at home, great! 😎
Great video .. I appreciate the time you spent making it n documenting the process/procedure. Great job!
1:05 Sanepid lubi to
Very educational video and hilarious 😂 at the same time !! Thankx
It was super hilarioys! Omgoodness ... Some parts were just soooo funny. Lol
This one was GENIUS! Thank you so much for everything.
This was pretty cool! Awesome results bro ✌🏼
great video man!
I love videos that show me how to acquire the once basic chemistry set components.
This is so cool! i love it
his accent is so pure yet i understand him perfectly. such a soothing voice
I remember doing this in College and it was so cool
Couldn't you use the amphoteric nature of aluminum to dissolve it directly in the wood ash solution, then dope the solution out with a really easy sulfate source like Epsom salts?
Isn't that seeding?
Waiting for drops to fall when filtering things, can relate.
I found it interesting that the solution had to remain at a constant rather than be buried like some methods of growing crystals calls for of which these steps that were emplioyed all viable in that process also. Good job.
Yellow chemistry..what a way to start my day off!! Good work!
Thank you!
molto bello e, come sempre, interessante
That was pretty cool
thank you, pretty cool
very nice!
yes. something i can do! :) yayy! :D Thanks bro.
Looks easy enough.
At some point, can you do a simplified version of this for kids. Maybe using alum - which wr can get at the grocery store? Thanks so much. This is an awesome! video
Aluminum comes with an oxide layer. Expect a rapid reaction once enough acid cuts through it.
I think that solution suddenly got cloudy at the point there was just enough reactants of each specie molecule-to-molecule (stoichiometrically)
Exquisite !!!
You should add conc. sulphuric acid gradually to water - never pour water onto acid as this will generate steam causing it to splatter!
A small note, these crystals can become ugly and white with air humidity even when lacquered. Best you keep them with some drying agent like silica gel. You can add copper sulfate to tint them a very beautiful blue, I guess food colouring might also work, but I am not sure.
I have try it myself.
Officer: Um, what ya got there?
Ohhh.. Those are wUd crythdulthz!!
Officer: Get the fuck out of the car.
09:54 You can't fool me, I know corn when I see it.
... my apologies, I didn't notice Jonathan Davis, this was clearly Korn.
Have you considered drying your chemicals with some anhydrous water?
When I burned wood, I was told I have a very nice Ash!
You can also start with alum, which is available in most grocery stores in the spice section.
and potash which is sold at any gardening section
Grow malachite crystals next!
@Amateur Chemistry If you´re interested I can tell you a way I found to purify and extract the potassium from wood, plant and vegetable ashes as pure potassium carbonate, which is better than just leaching all the potassium salts from them.
Well I’m interested in knowing.
@@kerrimtthefrog1001 Oh, really? Alright! This is how it goes:
Step 1: Treat the ash solution with calcium chloride to precipitate calcium carbonate and other anions that form insoluble calcium salts and then filter the mixture and save the filtrate.
Step 2: If there is any excess of calcium chloride in the solution, just add oxalic acid / sulfuric acid / potassium or sodium oxalates or sulfates until no more precipitate is formed and then filter the mixture and save the filtrate.
Step 3: Boil the solution to concentrate it until crystals start to appear and then allow it to cool to room temperature. After that, add the minimal amount of water to redissolve any crystals that may still present.
Step 4: Prepare a saturated solution of sodium bitartrate a.k.a. sodium hydrogen tartrate by reacting sodium hydroxide, carbonate or bicarbonate with tartaric acid in the right ratio and then boil the solution to concentrate it until crystals start to form.
Step 5: Mix the saturated solution of sodium bitartarate with the saturated solution of impure potassium chloride to precipitate potassium bitartrate a.k.a. potassium hydrogen tartrate. If you want, you can put the mixture in an ice bath or in a freezer to squeeze a little bit more yield.
Step 6: Filter the crystalline precipitate and wash it a few times with ice cold water and ethanol, and then let it dry.
Step 7: Heat the dry potassium bitartrate in a glass container like a test tube or a round bottom flask, for example, up to more or less 200 ºC until no more water and other fumes are released. It is going to char and get black, but that is to be expected. After allowing the solid to cool to room temperature, extract to resulting potassium carbonate with water and filter the solution to remove the black byproducts.
Step 8: Evaporate the solution and you´ll have high purity potassium carbonate.
Wow 😍
Can I ask why you (and others I have seen) only choose a quick pour-through form of washing the ash initially?
Is it to obtain only the most water soluble aspects and avoid other impurities?
This must be it - since surely a substance would normally be mixed with hot water and stirred - then filtered.
I understand that it isnt in the spirit of the experiment, but aluminum sulphate can be bought as a soil acidifier for changing the color of some pH sensitive plants, such as hydrangeas.
It's a very good chance for true potassium and fructose gas I think it was the fiscal year of my life I remember it was in my experience as a young man I was amazed of different kinds of Crystals which could be used in gas states essentially have a carbon substrate that forms autonomously in liquid state and added higher temperatures this is a Tallow flow crystal clear glaze and steel stainless steel coating is a heat resistant stainless with the surface densities high enough to make defense of corrosion
sounds like a good investment
Soda Ash has a pathway to crystal light in L E D substantial amounts of light emitting
9:16 The brown impurity is probably iron from the aluminum foil (typically contains 5%).
THE CRYSTALS ARE CALLING!!
nice one .....
myslalem ze mowiles na poczatku mushroom chemistry i sie musialem upewnic XDD
I was thinking this might be a fun project for my grandson until you started talking about sulfuric acid.
Ohmygoodness I love the "cute lil fella" so much!!! 😻😻😻 Tuxedo cats are among my very favorite kitties. ♥️
I knew that Sonics would help speed up the pathways itself a low level of Sonics that push pulls the fluid dynamics
Nice
What's that little spinny thing you're using to agitate while heating? Thats awesome
Electric motor under hotplate. One little bar magnet in beaker. Magnet in breaker must be coated in something that will NOT react with solution.
They are called Stirrers
How do you get big Optical great crystals of this substance?
You would have to grow its crystal the way I showed in the video but much slower and in a better controlled environment
@@Amateur.Chemistry if you can achieve that, then you will be a rich man, pal. Google search for Optical great doped KCrSO4 crystals or KTiOPO4, hack even the KAlSO4 has intresting Laser properties. If you go down that rabbit hole😂
1:37 _cursed chemistry lo intensifies_ 😹
Alum is nonlonger used because potassium alum is a nurotoxin... Aluminum in general particulaly if breathed in ir eaten.
Mmm crystal
Looks like a good candidate to make lenses for a high power laser..
I just watch these for the pronunciations, like it's an alien from another planet who somehow learned English but has no idea how the words are meant to sound. Funny! But sometimes the subtitles are really non-optional 😅
Yeah, I know that, I am constantly trying to improve as you can probably see if you watch some older videos but I still have a long way to go :)
@@Amateur.Chemistry You’re doing great! Watch more content in English and really absorb how words are spoken. I’m also a non-native speaker and we will probably never be perfect and that’s okay too!
I think he just showed us how the paper making process works 🤣
Lol why does that giant piece of filter paper exist? I mean I get you an make your own filters, but how expensive are filters compared to making your own 🤔 😂 Great video too, I'm going to try this one. Ty for this one. 👍👍
Forgot to mention, great crystals too! Can't wait to see how it looks in the future 👌
Why can't we use Na instead of K? Will not cristalize?
I ran an experiment for almost 1 year growing copper sulfate crystals. I got 1 thats almost the size of my fist!
4:06 mistborn gang where y'all at
fun fact: Potassium gets its name from 'potash', since theres a lot of 'Potash-ium' salts in it.
How do you remove the fishing line?
You unfortunately can't do it without destroying the crystal, but clear fisning line is almost invisible so this isn't too much of a problem
That’s chemical distributor website you linked has some VERY illegal reagents.
What chakra will these crystals heal? 🤣
Miracle !!!
I can't imagine most people have a vacuum filter and good ventilation at home...
You can make the crystals without these things by working outdoors and using regular gravity filtration, I used these to make things go faster and safer :)
Can't get sulphuric acid. Not in EU.
Are these hard?
Great crystals ! Can I invite you to watch my fatty acids preparation video ?
Thanks! I watched your video and it is really good, I will maybe give the procedure a try sometime :)
@@Amateur.Chemistry thanks for watching
wash fresh ash! :)
Теперь он разбогатеет и купит себе новую лаболаторию😂😂
Hello
Hi :)
Thats some hot ash!😂
😳😍😎
☕ 🦍
The giant filter is for brewing giant coffee for giant monsters with narcolepsy.
1:37 This scene is shocking every fiber in my body. I can taste it on my tongue and my nose feels the smell just thinking about it.
I'm going to do that now!!🙃💎on 2024march Tuesday03/12
Ok, so... i can do this at home? Woth like, Tupperware?
I would not recommend anyone to try it, but Alum can stop a bleed in a pinch but it hurts as ..
Polish creatin haha 😂 pozdro mordo
You started talking about it being non-toxic but then you mentioned using battery acid. I hope you meant unused sulfuric acid used for batteries. Otherwise your non-toxic crystals will have toxic Lead. Please avoid using Lead acid.
The acid I used is completely free of lead because I distilled it, you can see that in the video about it
mushroom chemistry
You had me till the car battery……
POLAND MENTIONED
Better methanol from wood.
I will definitely do that sometime
Ha
potazh