Benzaldehyde from Cinnamon Oil
Added 2016-08-19 20:57:41 +0000 UTCHey guys, second video of the month. I'm sorry, I've been kind of slow. I am still going to post 5 videos this month though! I am working on some new stuff for next month, so be prepared!
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Just a simple sol-gel process. Take Titanium nitrate, nickel nitrate, or whatever transition metal nitrate salts you have lying around, prepare a 1M solution, saturate with glycine, dry the mixture the best you can, then heat gently until it becomes a soupy black mess. After heating it will combust and you will have your ceramic powder. This video is using Titanium nitrate, but you could get similar results with nickel nitrate. The synthesis is ubiquitous in inorganic chemistry these days, and you can find an outline in most papers, like this one: <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304885399005661" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304885399005661</a> I like using glycine to create the gel, but this article uses citric acid. Same idea, but the "geling" compound depends on what metal nitrates you use and what properties you want the ceramic to have (high porosity, high surface area, small particle size, etc., etc.) Again, the prep for this synthesis is perhaps thirty minutes, followed by drying overnight, then maybe an hour for the combustion. Very easy and quite enjoyable.
2016-08-25 04:39:13 +0000 UTCThat is pretty cool! I am tempted to do it. Do you know what was in the beaker? Do you have a procedure for this?
Nile Red
2016-08-25 04:15:24 +0000 UTC
