I want to ask about it!
Regarding the feasibility and correctness of this approach.
I have tried the process in the video and here is how I did it. I don’t know why the final output is not the same as the quantity in the video.
First use IPA 100ml+H2O 50ml+P2NP 10g. After heating and dissolving, let it cool until crystals appear.
Prepare 12g aluminum flakes + 2g HgCL2 (because I can’t get the mercury nitrate and can only use mercury chloride to make aluminum amalgam), put it in a flask and react for about 30 to 40 minutes, and connect the condenser tube
The cooled and crystallized P2NP is easily added to 50ml of glacial acetic acid and heated to dissolve.
Remove the gray dirty water from the aluminum flakes and wash them twice with pure water
Then add the P2NP solution into the aluminum flask (at this time there will be a large amount of reaction and the temperature will rise rapidly. Use a cold bath to cool down the temperature and shake the flask regularly during the process). The reaction process is about 30~40 minutes.
Take out the solution from the flask and there will be a gray liquid and a small amount of aluminum flakes
Previously prepared 50g NaOH+70ml H2O solution, add the sodium hydroxide solution to the gray liquid to bring the liquid pH to 11
Reaction takes about 30 minutes
A yellow liquid will appear. Take out this liquid (the gray substance is not extracted) and put it in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
After cooling, add this light yellow liquid to IPA 1:1 and stir
Add concentrated sulfuric acid and drop in a small amount. At this time, white objects will appear, making the liquid appear milky white with sediment.
Bring pH to 5.5
After refrigerating the liquid for 24 hours, filter and dry the white product (is the product at this time correct? And the final P2P required)
For this part, my final product is only about 1~2g, which doesn’t seem right.
I've tried hard to find the answer but I still haven't gotten the right idea. Could you please give me some correct guidance?
What factors affect the yield (the final product in the video seems to be far more than the number of my experiments)
I welcome people who have succeeded with this method and the yield is about 70~80% to guide me.
please
Aluminum foil and aluminum flakes are made into aluminum amalgam and then sodium hydroxide solution is added. Why is the aluminum flake a slightly yellowish liquid, but the aluminum foil is a white liquid?
The aluminum foil I use is household aluminum foil used in the kitchen. Is this okay to use?