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Extracting Thorium Dioxide from Thoriated Tungsten Rods
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New NurdRage video!
Nice to see another amateur-accessible source of thorium, since incandescent gas mantles have mostly switched to yttrium.
I wonder what the easiest way would be to reduce the thorium dioxide to thorium metal?
Make Nitric Acid without Sulfuric Acid by Oxalate Precipitation
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Another useful example of producing a strong acid from a weak acid by using precipitation as the driving force.
Extracting Radioactive Salt from Chornobyl Blueberries
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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/21614029
> One of the OG YouTube chemists dabbles in some radiochemistry and spectroscopy.
Make sulfuric acid from oxalic acid with the sun
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Not very practical, but the chemistry is interesting. Producing a strong acid from a weak acid by using precipitation as the driving force is something I don't see very often.
Measuring Density with Pycnometers, Hydrometers, and Graduated Cylinders
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A bit of analytical chemistry for a change. I had never heard of a pycnometer!
Make Potassium Nitrate and Sodium Nitrate from Calcium Nitrate - An Alternative to Ammonium Nitrate
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Very useful video. Nitrate salts are a foundational feedstock in amateur (and professional) chemistry.
Edit: NurdRage reuploaded a slightly censored version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlonW4iJYrw
Purification of Sulfuric Acid by Distillation - Revisited
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