How to make IRON OXIDE

[opaldragonmb]

i tried this but but without the ball mill and cant get it to ignite does it just need to be finer grain

[flamedrag18]

@opaldragonmb yes

[lyrison]

@BestUsernamePossible You could. It creates black iron oxide though. Black iron oxide is great for thermite, but not so good for what he's doing.

[Simlatio]

Quick tip, if the powder is destined for use with chlorates, never use copper grinding media....worse than adding sulfur to a chlorate mix.

[INFOWARforYourMind]

How much salt? Add that into the weight.

[1041015]

quick question. when u leave it runing for 12 hours or 24 hours. do u see a huge diference in your electrical bill?

[Simlatio]

@1041015 Using figures based of electroylsis for chlorates which seems to have similar yields factoring in molecular weights, it is dirt cheap to perform electrolysis at home.

[1993weekniej]

what kind of bag did you use for the filtration? And is the iron oxide pure enough for thermite?

some of the best vids for producing ironoxide i've seen

[wolfenpixels]

so your making basically rust....could scrape that off old iron blocks lol. I do appreciate the vid tho im not a hater

[njmvermont]

chuck norrises dirty diaper

[antoespiga]

I think you´re making iron chloride, not iron oxide.

[42hiperion]

Nice method and testing video!!! tnx

[hoodstarx1]

ok im making mine right now and its been sitting for about an hour but the rust is black for some reason is this good or bad?

[Kuebke92]

@hoodstarx1 Heat the black rust in an oven for some time and it will turn orange. Black means it's monooxide, orange is dioxide.

[Sb01343]

My solution is black and it has brown precipitate on the top. Is there still going to be Iron oxide when I dry it out?

[1993weekniej]

@Sb01343 I've got the same problem..

[Berty1994]

How can you get rid of the salt?

[UTubeisSHIT523441]

good video. I use the same procedure, and there always forms this green-black 'thing' which sinks at the bottom and it doesn't matter if I use the sodium bicarbonate, sodium carbonate, or salt. Do you know what it is and why does it form?

[Kuebke92]

@UTubeisSHIT523441 I think your copper electrodes are hitting the water, effectively oxidizing them. Make sure your copper wires or whatever you use are not in the water.

[Arensx]

mix the iron oxide with powdered aluminum and burn it

warning: the reaction is very vigorous and produces high amounts of heat capable of melting steel

[1shehrozdon]

what do you do in the last step?

[mccunecp]

cool at least I get same color of rust mine is also a black color also I wonder what they do and how they get the red Iron oxcide. I wonder if it has somethign to do with the content of oxigen in the rust. I wonder that if some how I was able to force more air in to the fix if it make it reder.

[Fleffy11]

just rust steel wool

[lucky5650]

wtf powdered sugar?

[starshock01]

lol I use bullets as grinding media too...never thought of using a lathe to mill stuff

[AxelTiger]

good idea with the lathe!

[turbotonic27]

why dont you just buy it ?

[manstarson]

2 Fe + 3/2 O2 + H2O → 2 FeO(OH)

2 FeO(OH) → Fe2O3 + H2O

[david1513]

kid's dont do this its exstreamley dangerous and deadley, just go to the building supply store and buy it it's only $20 for 10 pounds and it will last you a life time, 10 pound of it is a great amount by volum, David*

[jesseroybal1]

@Garchompguy11 Yes you can.

[dib327]

what happens if the bars touch each other

[jesseroybal1]

@dib327 - A direct Short, A good way to destroy a power supply.

[hobomnky]

how long did you leave it in ur ball mill?

[jesseroybal1]

30 min.

[hobomnky]

do you know wat the chemical formula for this iron oxide is?

and also i have made a ton of that stuff, but i think its iron hydroxide, i say taht becuase i also did the same method to make what i thought would be copper oxide but it was giving me a blue coloured substance, i checked wikipedia: both forms of copper oxide aren't blue, but the copper(II)hydroxide page had a picture with a blue substance that look just like what i was getting..?

[jesseroybal1]

iron(III) hydroxide (Fe(OH)3)

Iron(III) Oxide (Fe2O3)

From what I read on line Iron Hydroxide would have been a lot more Yellowish. It is actually used as a Yellow die for makeup and Tattoing.

What you are describing sounds more like copper sulfate If you used tap water it could have had a reaction with the cemicals in the water that are added by the local treatment plant. I have seen copper turn sand into awsome blue glass after a cell tower was hit by lightning.

[hobomnky]

i dont think that what we have is Fe2O3, cuz thats a red colour, and FeO is like pitch black so the only other option is

Fe3O4. so i guess thats what it is. thats wat i originally thought it was but the copper thing confused me : /

[hazzaza1]

i tried to make some with a 6 volt battery but nothingever happens, so i bought another and the same thing ... lol, gr8 vid anyway u put alot of work into that

[jesseroybal1]

That could have been due to a number of reasons. Off the top of my head it could have been the electrodes were placed to far apart from each other requireing a greater voltage, not enough salt, not enough iron content in the electrodes, or the battery didn't have enough stored energy to sustain the reaction for long enough. Thank you for your comment.