Turning Dirt into Silicon
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Published 2024-07-26
In this video I use a very big scale exotic thermite reaction to turn some average dirt into the tremendously useful and technologically important elemental silicon while greatly contributing to global warming and stink-bombing my whole neighborhood.
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0:00 Intro
4:05 Collecting and purifying some dirt
10:41 Preparing for the thermite reaction
14:05 Turning my grill into a volcano
17:18 Extracting and purifying silicon from the stinky slab
22:17 Outro
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#sand
#pretty
All Comments (21)
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18:24 casually releasing H2S that is enough to wipe out a whole village.
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Bro stirring the conc. sulphuric acid with his hand is making lab techs around the world toss in their sleep
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next make video: making an i7 intel cpu with the silicon
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Ah my favorite chemistry channel: Turning dirt into things that do not look like dirt
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He produced 1m³ of pure H2S. If it's dilutet to 100 ppm he contaminated over 10000 m³ of air. That's the size of a 10 floors high building.
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7:18 "The dirt was so dirty it just refused to cooperate." 🤣
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The extra 2g of ‘sand’ is probably steel from the cans!
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That 99.9999% pure silicon was the remains of a formerly perfect boule.
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I'm just amazed at the sheer amount of H2S 💀💀💀
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The extra mass after using the ball mill is probably coming from the ball bearings literally getting sanded down.
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When purifying the sand, the first acid step should be soaking with vinegar. Using sulfuric acid will leave insoluble calcium sulfate and other insoluble sulfates. Adding the sodium carbonate will leave insoluble carbonates from soluble sulfates like magnesium sulfate. An additional gravity separation step would clean the sand of heavy metals. Think gold panning but ssving the sand.
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4:30 LOOKS LIKE WE'RE DOIN' HYDRONEER BOYS
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5:20 the black plastic will absorb almost no light when it's cowered with dirt. the dirt does most of the amsorbing
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H2S is flammable. It can be directed to a flame or ignited for safe destruction.
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My man larped WWII chemical warfare at the comfort of his home. Anyway, nice processing.
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You chemistry peeps put so much dang work into these videos and I really appreciate it
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Your videos are great to watch !!!
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...it was too expensive so I sold my other kidney..." He s just chill like that
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Awesome video keep such content coming👍🏻
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Killer humour man I love it ! Very entertaining video
