Great video once again! I was looking for an easy synthesis for it and this seems like something I can do easily with the stuff I have right now Also, ceramic should be pronounced as sir amic, the C is a S sound
I know im to late, but letting the impure boron sit in hydrogen peroxide for some time seems to increase the purity even more, my boron sample went from 0.7g (from 1.1Theoretical) of black Powder to 0.6 grams of brown powder
A lot of elemental boron must have oxidized back to boron trioxide while still hot. The yield can be improved by making the thermite mixture even finer and by covering it faster while hot (an inert atmosphere would be ideal).
It is unclear how we know that boron was obtained... It could be some kind of magnesium borate, or a compound of magnesium and boron with atmospheric nitrogen. The text is very unclear in translation...
Great video once again! I was looking for an easy synthesis for it and this seems like something I can do easily with the stuff I have right now
Also, ceramic should be pronounced as sir amic, the C is a S sound
Thanks for mentioning! And I am glad to have helped you find a good synthesis.
Man you are first who had compared the theoritic yield and what you had got after the reaction. Respect.
the yield is an important part of chemistry and i feel destined to make useful videos
Very interesting thermal decomposition. Thank you for this, its giving me ideas of taking other borax salts and making boron at my home lab
Stay safe
I know im to late, but letting the impure boron sit in hydrogen peroxide for some time seems to increase the purity even more, my boron sample went from 0.7g (from 1.1Theoretical) of black Powder to 0.6 grams of brown powder
There's a 65 element eutectic just waiting to be invented. Remember I said that.
I didn't think it was boron at all. In fact, I found it to be very interesting.
I'll get my coat...
Very nice, ya got a smile out of me👍
2:35 Borane is described as pyrophoric yet I see no flames coming from the beaker. Why is that? I thought it would ignite like silane.
Schön 😃 mal ein deutscher Chemiekanal ich freu mich 👍 gefunden bei Reddit vom Brom Video
Freut mich dass es dir gefällt!
I've gotten only one thermite mix to cook off with the acetone torch but the flame had to be set just right. I cant get it to work ever time though
Would it be possible to melt this into a solid piece of boron?
Yes but you’d need to melt it under an inert atmosphere. In air it would oxidize quickly.
Can b2o3 dissolved in any liquid plenty
Nice job. What caused the low yield?
A lot of elemental boron must have oxidized back to boron trioxide while still hot. The yield can be improved by making the thermite mixture even finer and by covering it faster while hot (an inert atmosphere would be ideal).
very cool!
Can i use aluminium instead magnesium?
Try it. I can’t promise that the results will be good though. Magnesium is more reactive and the reaction gets hotter which makes it self sustaining
I tried it and it didn't work. I even tried to heat it with blowtorch but nothing happened.
Then you don’t have a cheap alternative to magnesium. Sodium and lithium would also work but are known for not being cheap
I found from some book that zinc should also work.
@@firechem5274 Maybe it could work with an external heat source, bunsen burner maybe?
It is unclear how we know that boron was obtained... It could be some kind of magnesium borate, or a compound of magnesium and boron with atmospheric nitrogen. The text is very unclear in translation...
awesome
Time to use my Turkish power
Making BORon seems to not be BORing 😏got it ?🤣