Praseodymium oxalate - a beautiful green rare earth salt

In this video, I prepare a sample of praseodymium(II) oxalate, a very pretty rare-earth salt of which no videos seem to exist.
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[@BackYardScience2000]

Great video! Thanks for sharing. What do you plan to use it for?

[@Zenzicubic]

I mostly just made it for the color. Thanks though.

[@petevenuti7355]

Wanted some ever since I was 10 years old and I saw Carl Sagan show it during that episode of cosmos was first released..

[@Zenzicubic]

You wanted praseodymium?

[@petevenuti7355]

@@Zenzicubic oddly, yeah, niobium was another, something to do with quantum chromodynamics in its nucleus... I forget what... I was just burning through the 500 section of my library,
I didn't have an air conditioner till I was 16, the library did , summer was hot...

[@Zenzicubic]

@@petevenuti7355 Interesting...surprised neodymium wasn't on the list. It forms very pretty pink salts.

[@santiagomunozbarrios5795]

Beautiful green

[@Zenzicubic]

I know right, the word praseodymium comes in part from the Greek for green

[@lablulz2483]

Cool! Is it fluorescent?

[@Zenzicubic]

Unfortunately it is not. Thanks for watching though

[@Zenzicubic]

Maybe under a UV laser, but not under a blacklight

[@johnathancorgan3994]

The content here is good, but please, please, do away with the music. It is competing with your narration and serves no purpose but distraction.

[@Zenzicubic]

Fair enough, but if you don't like it that's in part why I write captions.

[@brainandforce]

@@Zenzicubic Just fix the balancing of the narration audio vs. the music and you should be fine.