I just done this at home, i was a disaster. The first reaction with hydrocloridric acid and aluminium is exothermic, and goes faster with temperature. More than being the perfect recipe for a bomb-like reaction, hydrocloryc acid will start boiling at 48 °C and producing fumes that you don't want in your lungs nor in your kitchen. Using common glassware for an exothermic reaction involving acid is also a terrible idea. At least use a large ice or water bath. It wont be enough to cool the solution, but if your bottle cracks, your acidic solution will be diluted and cooled. But anyway, if you reached this point you're probably already inhaling distilated chlorhydric acid so ... Real safety googles may also save your eyebrows. Also, the reaction can be tamed by putting more water in it, but that's is generally discouraged to put water on acid, so your better luck is go really slowly when adding the aluminium foil. Also, acid + foil will cost about the same price than a bottle of the final product, wich will be purer than the DIY method and give brighter rubies in the final step.
When i was in high school I wanted to make a Verneuil Torch to make synthetic sapphire. I only got as far as to bore a deep hole in a stainless steel rod. Then i discovred the "Czochralski" method of exteuding or pulling the crystal from a molten mass inside a pure Iridium crucible. Thats when i became intrigued by the platinum group of metals. Then i discovred how they made cubic zirconia crystals , their melting tp is so high that they use the powdered zirconium feed material with cooling tubes fabricated in an arangement called a °Skull Melt" the interior becommes molten while the exterior or the mass is cooled to make its own solid non molted shell. Essentially making a crucible insitu or in place. I only came so far as to do research but never actually made any synthetic gems,,, however i believe synthetic opal is within possibility with the correct recipe and technique. Thanks for sharing your successful experience.
I know it seems odd, but green chromium oxide is decently safe with some precautions while chromium is severely carcinogenic. Seems sketchy, but that’s chemistry for you.
I just done this at home, i was a disaster.
The first reaction with hydrocloridric acid and aluminium is exothermic, and goes faster with temperature.
More than being the perfect recipe for a bomb-like reaction, hydrocloryc acid will start boiling at 48 °C and producing fumes that you don't want in your lungs nor in your kitchen.
Using common glassware for an exothermic reaction involving acid is also a terrible idea.
At least use a large ice or water bath. It wont be enough to cool the solution, but if your bottle cracks, your acidic solution will be diluted and cooled. But anyway, if you reached this point you're probably already inhaling distilated chlorhydric acid so ...
Real safety googles may also save your eyebrows.
Also, the reaction can be tamed by putting more water in it, but that's is generally discouraged to put water on acid, so your better luck is go really slowly when adding the aluminium foil.
Also, acid + foil will cost about the same price than a bottle of the final product, wich will be purer than the DIY method and give brighter rubies in the final step.
Maybe a gas mask and an area that is not a kitchen is required but not sure if gas mask is used in hydrochloric acid vapor(?)
Always buy the powders online paying a bit more for pre made pure chemicals is well worth the price of your safety and keeping your health in tact
When i was in high school I wanted to make a Verneuil Torch to make synthetic sapphire. I only got as far as to bore a deep hole in a stainless steel rod.
Then i discovred the "Czochralski" method of exteuding or pulling the crystal from a molten mass inside a pure Iridium crucible. Thats when i became intrigued by the platinum group of metals.
Then i discovred how they made cubic zirconia crystals , their melting tp is so high that they use the powdered zirconium feed material with cooling tubes fabricated in an arangement called a °Skull Melt" the interior becommes molten while the exterior or the mass is cooled to make its own solid non molted shell. Essentially making a crucible insitu or in place.
I only came so far as to do research but never actually made any synthetic gems,,, however i believe synthetic opal is within possibility with the correct recipe and technique.
Thanks for sharing your successful experience.
wow, that is amazing.
all you need is a super duper poisonous compound
It that compound that toxic? For all I've found it seems to only be an irritant and only really toxic if consumed
@@alpha_labs Don't know about the product, but the first steap here can clearly create hydrochloric vapor.
Trust me on that point ...
@@Technicotop just use a fumehood?
@@sarkozygaming3629 Good for you if you have one ! :)
I know it seems odd, but green chromium oxide is decently safe with some precautions while chromium is severely carcinogenic. Seems sketchy, but that’s chemistry for you.
Send me some of this 😊
This is glass, not ruby
What mean white powder in chem?
Do you mean Al2O3?
@@alifuaderkanafter u put aluminium foil, then u put baking powder?
Sodium carbonate. Check the video.
@ElementalMaker