The chromyl chloride cleanup
Added 2019-09-26 15:03:25 +0000 UTCHey guys, here's the cleanup. It was kind of a disaster, but it was still fun!
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At the end of the day, you did not recover any usable chromium from that, did you? I thought maybe you could turn the chromium hydroxide back into something useful, like potassium dichromate? Or chromium metal, using some sort of electrochemistry.
Mono Keras
2019-10-03 08:44:40 +0000 UTCSodium metabisulfate works just as well as Sodium sulfate Red Nile.
Daniel Blake Shoemaker
2019-09-27 13:00:47 +0000 UTCHmm, based on the color I think you still have some Cr(VI) in the waste from the flask.
Silviu T
2019-09-26 22:20:26 +0000 UTCI do similar things with sodium dichromate salts Red Nile. Nasty stuff.
Daniel Blake Shoemaker
2019-09-26 17:33:45 +0000 UTCI'd be so tempted to heat it to 900c :)
Brian Reddeman
2019-09-26 17:23:56 +0000 UTCEverything you're not supposed to do but you still do it because you're having fun :)
Brian Reddeman
2019-09-26 17:18:45 +0000 UTC
