🧵 Amateur chemistry
Anonymous at Mon, 22 Apr 2024 10:47:42 UTC No. 16140308
I'm thinking of a project to try extracting pure iron from FeEDTA, but EDTA is pretty annoying, so I first want to try swapping it with a more convenient ligand like chloro/bromo or maybe hydro. No idea how to do it though.
I didn't have a pic to upload along with it, so just for the sake of it I uploaded a random one, ignore it.
Anonymous at Mon, 22 Apr 2024 11:24:01 UTC No. 16140329
>>16140308
If you can't even think of a related picture I have 0 confidence in your ability to follow through on any related project.
Anonymous at Mon, 22 Apr 2024 11:32:26 UTC No. 16140336
>>16140329
Well, I really don't have any related picture except a pic of a bottle of sodium hydroxide, so yeah.
Anonymous at Mon, 22 Apr 2024 11:37:38 UTC No. 16140339
>>16140336
You could literally just use a picture of the chemical formula for the elemental conversion you are seeking, but since you are clearly even too retarded for that, there is no way you are going to understand let along perform a method to do the extraction.
Anonymous at Mon, 22 Apr 2024 13:44:38 UTC No. 16140495
>>16140308
Pyrolyse it at like 900 °C until nothing but oxides are left, then the rest will be much easier.
Anonymous at Mon, 22 Apr 2024 15:54:20 UTC No. 16140635
>>16140339
Damn and I thought reddit was toxic
Anonymous at Mon, 22 Apr 2024 15:58:12 UTC No. 16140640
>>16140495
Seems doable, but how will I protolyse it at that high temperature? Will passing HCl gas on the heated EDTA do the job? Or is there a better method?(I won't be using specialised equipment)
Anonymous at Mon, 22 Apr 2024 18:14:21 UTC No. 16140840
>>16140640
Use a (potentially sacrificial, depends how careful you are) glass test tube and a blowtorch, a crucible would also probably work. You just need to be able to heat the powder indirectly, if you point the blowtorch at it directly it will probably fly away.
If you lack equipment/chemicals I am afraid the reduction to metallic iron will present a substantial challenge though.
Anonymous at Mon, 22 Apr 2024 18:24:11 UTC No. 16140857
>>16140840
That seems doable, I'll most likely use a crucible and a blowtorch. But will just heating the compound turn it into oxides of iron? Or do I also need to do some more steps for that
Anonymous at Mon, 22 Apr 2024 18:27:31 UTC No. 16140861
>>16140840
Also, by saying I won't be using specialised equipment, I was referring to heat resistant quartz glass tubes or furnaces, the chemicals part likely won't be an issue