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(89 votes) Published: Jan 09, 2007 7:09 p.m. In 3 Favorites Lists Viewed 503 times
Pure Magnesium Theory
This is just an untested theory of mine of how to make pure magnesium metal. It can be done very easily, with common household items, that are easily available over the counter. I will try to test it though as soon as I have time.
Materials needed:
- 100g Epsom Salt (get it at drugstores, supermarkets, pretty much everywhere)
- 70g Table Salt (doesn’t not have to be iodized, best if it’s not)
- 0.5 Liter of Water
- Carbon Rods (get them from old batteries)
- Container (plastic or glass)
- saucepan or something similar
- 2-4 AA Bateries
- Fine Sifter
Procedures and Chemical Equations
1. You will start off by making epsom salt anhydrous, meaning it will not be bonded with water in form of crystals. We need to get rid of water bonded to MgSO4 (Magnesium Sulfate - Epsom Salt) by heating it in a saucepan. The crystals will turn into a slurry, and water will be evaporating. Once you fully evaporate water, the Epsom Salt will be anhydrous, and will look like a white solid. Crush it into a powder.
heat
MgSO4 * 7H2O --> MgSO4(s) + 7H2O(g)
Heated Magnesium Sulfate Heptahydrate produces pure Magnesium Sulfate when heated.
2. Once you have you MgSO4 done, you need table salt (Sodium Chloride - NaCl).
Mix both into water, stir gently for several seconds untill they’re mostly dissolved. Use warm water. Now, run a current thorugh the solution. That means run an electricity through the water. Use carbon rods as electrodes. The dissolved Magnesium Sulfate and salt will react.
3. When you preform the electrolysis for a few hours, you should have crystals on bottom of the container. Put the solution on the oven and evaporate the water. You should end up with large and tiny crystals. The large crystals are MgCl2 (Magnesium Chloride), the stuff you need, and NaSO4 (Sodium Sulfate), the stuff you could use for something else. Now, sift the crystals through the fine sifter, to get rid of the Sodium Sulfate salt.
4. Now that you have Magnesium Chloride in your disposition, you need to break it down to get Magnesium metal. Use electrolisys to do that. Put it in a solution with water. When you run a current, Magnesium should attach to one of the electrodes, and form a coating over itself. If you want to ensure you get pure Magnesium, Melt Magnesium Chloride in a saucepan and then run a current though it. Don’t breath the gas that comes out, it’s pure chlorine (Cl2).
Now you’re probably asking why not electrolise table salt and get the same thing? Well, you won’t get pure Magnesium, you’re gonna get pure Sodium!!
Thank you for reading and remember for the most part it wasn’t tested, so if you have a lot of expierience in chemistry then go ahead and tell me what should I change to make it work. By the way, I’m not a chemist, but I paid attection in science class.. Use an oil of any type to store the magnesium. Anyway, Thank you for reading my egg!!! Sorry for no pics, but the egg is for most part self explanatory, and i only have few pics.
Jan 09, 2007 7:40 pm - This is excellent research, i will have to try this, when i get the time. In science, i learn to make potassium nitrate from mixing hydrochloric acid + and lead nitrate. then u add potassium chloride. or at least thats what i think you do.... 5 fucking stars for you!
I will try to test it though as soon as I have time.
Why would you make and egg about something that you have not tried yet. That is just like talking about how it feels to be tazered or stabbed or something without having experienced that sensation of pain. i wont vote
Jan 09, 2007 9:36 pm - alright people, magnesium is a metal at it’s pure state, and i tested about 80% of what’s in this egg, and you won’t blow yourself up doing this.
Why would you make and egg about something that you have not tried yet. That is just like talking about how it feels to be tazered or stabbed or something without having experienced that sensation of pain. i wont vote
it’s a fairly sound theory, there’s no reason why it shouldn’t work. and
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if its an untested theory how do u know you wont blow ur skin off of your hand?
you’re just heating some fuckin salts in a saucepan, as long as you don’t stick your finger in to taste it, you’ll be fine
Jan 10, 2007 3:44 pm - Good egg. This will work, but its not worth the trouble, Mg metal isnt THAT hard to find.
Jan 16, 2007 12:58 am - wrong If you eletrolocize MgCl you will get MgOH on the anode and Mg(HClO)3 on the cathode. Mg can be formed in solution as it will oxidize even if you did a replacement reaction with a more electronegative metal, such as Al. The only way would be to electrolocize pure molten MgCl2. But it melts at 741 degrees so you might as well make potassium from salt substitute.
Jun 10, 2007 7:20 am - I just cant understand how many dumbfucks are on this site... *dumbassvoice* "Why do yo want to maake a metall out of magnesium?"
SHUUUUUU UUUUUUP Man...
btw: Nice egg, i think this will work. 5*
for the others woh buys magnesium in wall mart: In other countries you cant buy magnesium in wall mat´rts, so we need this, for example in germany its fucking damn hard to get magnesium. Last time i have had magnesium in my hands was about 3 years agoo, it was some nice manesium ribbon. I rolled some around an arrow and shoot around with it and burnt some hay bales... So 5* (o i told already ^^)
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