@MrDndid Lithium reacts with water to form lithium hydroxide and hydrogen gas, the heat generated by this reaction is enough to ignite the hydrogen gas with oxygen in the air forming water.
Try advancing your experimentation to using lithium as a reducing agent. Theres plenty of interesting, if slightly less showy, uses in this regard. I use it sometimes to reduce pitchblende (UO2) to uranium metal, which has facinating chemistry.
@neddy17 Wrap the two together in aluminum foil and place in a metal container with mineral oil in it. Weigh it down as it will want to float (I use a steel bolt), and heat it gently for 5 - 10 minutes. provided the lithium is more electropositive than the metal the compound is attached to, it should swap over to the lithium and leave a metal behind.
@TheCaptainLulz noooo...nooooo.....nooooooooooooooo! are you serious?you reduce uranium ions?PLEASE tellme how to do that! Can i use magnesium instead of lithium?
@b1912313 Dont use water, its just a waste of metals. Magnesium works, but you have to be SUPER careful. Within 1 second of igniting you have to quench it in mineral oil, to prevent the uranium from reoxidizing. Either way its not too pure. If you live in the US its WAY easier just to buy the stuff from united nuclear. Their depleted uranium costs 50$ and is pure. Isotopically there really isnt much you can do, except make a neutron gun and try and make a tiny amount of plutonium.
@TheCaptainLulz nahh nah nah i don't want to make plutonium or stuff. It is just because I would really love to see uranium metal. Pretty stuff. Can Thorium be reduced using magnesium metal as well?
@b1912313 From what Ive heard no (Th), something to do with its oxidation states. I think they have to boil and reduce the stuff in a vacuum at high temperature. Either way, finding a source pure enough to reduce is nearly impossible. The stuff from mantles isnt nearly pure enough. Uraniun metal itsself is actually quite boring. Without a tarnish it looks like tin (Sn) but is quite a bit harder.
@TheCaptainLulz ehy hey hey, i'm not trying to use some cheap mantles. Here where I live is quite easy to get thorianite. Big chunks of it. Some people here stores about 200kg of it inside their houses....Yp, illegal, dangerous, but they do. Sometime ago we were having problems because thorianite was being illegally exported to some punk communist countries.
@b1912313 At where I dig theres uranothorite irananite and thorite. Plus stuff like uranophane. Oh, where I live that would not be illegal provided the element was a part of a rock and not refined. My room would probably set off counters from the end of the drive.
Man, all this overly-protective talk about gloves all the time...
It somewhat removes the respect for real dangerous stuff. Spilling 98% sulfuric acid on my hand is something I would definately prefer over a lead-poisoning or similar.
You can touch even straigtht sodium hydroxide without gloves. Your hand won't fall off after that. Also most (lab-scale) acid-spills are so unhazardous, that working with gloves isn't even worth the trouble.
@Spastb00n try it. 98% H2SO4 will burn your skin in about 10 seconds similar to touching a burning ball of lithium. NaOH can be touched quickly, so long as its dry. wet, it will do about the same thing. Chemicals are serious business. Some chemical burns will continue to do tissue damage days, weeks, or even months after they have been washed off.
@TheCaptainLulz Yeah, I had several spills, I work with concentrated acis and bases all the time, without gloves. And I guarantee you, that it is unneccecary to wear any, unless you're working with poisonous stuff.
And a burning ball of lithium is like 1k degree C, hardly a comparison to sulfuric acid, whitch will only slowly decompose your skin, and is harmless if washed away quickly.
omg are you stupid you dont light it first the lithium reacts with the water so much that it makes the hydrogen gas in the air ignite
also yes there is hydrogen gas in the air ( the reaction makes the water hot which then creates steam
MrDndid 2 months ago
@MrDndid most of that isn't true
neddy17 2 months ago
@MrDndid Lithium reacts with water to form lithium hydroxide and hydrogen gas, the heat generated by this reaction is enough to ignite the hydrogen gas with oxygen in the air forming water.
2Li + 2H2O -> 2LiOH + H2
2 H2 + O2 -> 2 H2O
zbrooo 2 months ago
not being rude but your an idiot, touching lithium with your bare hands.
technowizardb 6 months ago
lithium reacts with water so it will obvoiusly still burn try oil
diegonikki 8 months ago
what type of oil can you store lithium metal? can it be an olive oil to store lithium , i have green oil which comes from olives
MrBeefguy 1 year ago
@MrBeefguy i would use mineral oil, it can be bought at any pharmacy or supermarket in the health area
neddy17 1 year ago
you sound like Fogul...
AbieDaFreak 1 year ago
Try advancing your experimentation to using lithium as a reducing agent. Theres plenty of interesting, if slightly less showy, uses in this regard. I use it sometimes to reduce pitchblende (UO2) to uranium metal, which has facinating chemistry.
TheCaptainLulz 1 year ago
@TheCaptainLulz that could be neat, something like a strip of lithium wrapper around copper oxide or sulfate powder.
neddy17 1 year ago
@neddy17 Wrap the two together in aluminum foil and place in a metal container with mineral oil in it. Weigh it down as it will want to float (I use a steel bolt), and heat it gently for 5 - 10 minutes. provided the lithium is more electropositive than the metal the compound is attached to, it should swap over to the lithium and leave a metal behind.
TheCaptainLulz 1 year ago
@TheCaptainLulz noooo...nooooo.....nooooooooooooooo! are you serious?you reduce uranium ions?PLEASE tellme how to do that! Can i use magnesium instead of lithium?
b1912313 5 months ago
@b1912313 Dont use water, its just a waste of metals. Magnesium works, but you have to be SUPER careful. Within 1 second of igniting you have to quench it in mineral oil, to prevent the uranium from reoxidizing. Either way its not too pure. If you live in the US its WAY easier just to buy the stuff from united nuclear. Their depleted uranium costs 50$ and is pure. Isotopically there really isnt much you can do, except make a neutron gun and try and make a tiny amount of plutonium.
TheCaptainLulz 5 months ago
@TheCaptainLulz nahh nah nah i don't want to make plutonium or stuff. It is just because I would really love to see uranium metal. Pretty stuff. Can Thorium be reduced using magnesium metal as well?
b1912313 5 months ago
@b1912313 From what Ive heard no (Th), something to do with its oxidation states. I think they have to boil and reduce the stuff in a vacuum at high temperature. Either way, finding a source pure enough to reduce is nearly impossible. The stuff from mantles isnt nearly pure enough. Uraniun metal itsself is actually quite boring. Without a tarnish it looks like tin (Sn) but is quite a bit harder.
TheCaptainLulz 5 months ago
@TheCaptainLulz ehy hey hey, i'm not trying to use some cheap mantles. Here where I live is quite easy to get thorianite. Big chunks of it. Some people here stores about 200kg of it inside their houses....Yp, illegal, dangerous, but they do. Sometime ago we were having problems because thorianite was being illegally exported to some punk communist countries.
b1912313 5 months ago
@b1912313 At where I dig theres uranothorite irananite and thorite. Plus stuff like uranophane. Oh, where I live that would not be illegal provided the element was a part of a rock and not refined. My room would probably set off counters from the end of the drive.
TheCaptainLulz 5 months ago
Isn't it unnecessary to light it with a match? Lithium reacts to water.
42xer 1 year ago
Man, all this overly-protective talk about gloves all the time...
It somewhat removes the respect for real dangerous stuff. Spilling 98% sulfuric acid on my hand is something I would definately prefer over a lead-poisoning or similar.
You can touch even straigtht sodium hydroxide without gloves. Your hand won't fall off after that. Also most (lab-scale) acid-spills are so unhazardous, that working with gloves isn't even worth the trouble.
Save the gloves for HF and stuff.
Spastb00n 1 year ago
@Spastb00n i agree man
neddy17 1 year ago
@Spastb00n try it. 98% H2SO4 will burn your skin in about 10 seconds similar to touching a burning ball of lithium. NaOH can be touched quickly, so long as its dry. wet, it will do about the same thing. Chemicals are serious business. Some chemical burns will continue to do tissue damage days, weeks, or even months after they have been washed off.
TheCaptainLulz 1 year ago
@TheCaptainLulz Yeah, I had several spills, I work with concentrated acis and bases all the time, without gloves. And I guarantee you, that it is unneccecary to wear any, unless you're working with poisonous stuff.
And a burning ball of lithium is like 1k degree C, hardly a comparison to sulfuric acid, whitch will only slowly decompose your skin, and is harmless if washed away quickly.
Spastb00n 1 year ago
@Spastb00n lol yea I wuold save glolves for lead,nickle,tin and chromium salts......
gabdcceddlappy 5 months ago
NurdRage is tits. Nice experiment!
PattyMMelt 2 years ago
sweat on your hand can already produce Lithiumhydroxid not to talk about the alkali burns...dont touch it without gloves
aayla1989 2 years ago
while i agree it is unsafe, the layer or mineral oil on my hands and the lithium was a protective measure
neddy17 2 years ago
Good stuff
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