Electrolysis of salt water

[XempireX18]

thats not much cl gas. the yellowish colour is from the spoon. may be the spoon has copper in it. so when it corrode, the copper turns into copper ions and precipitate in the water

[SMSRONIC11]

thumbs up if the likes and dislikes were the same once

[jdducut83]

H20 + NaCL = H2 = CL2 + NaH sorry i have the numbers wrong but am too lazy to change them. but in essence what you produce is 1) hydrogen (which is likely used up or spent later on or just goes back into, 2) Hyrdrochloric acid, and 3) Chlorine gas.

[ApertureScience27]

@jdducut83 it's 2H20+2NaCl -> 2NaOH+H2+Cl2

[AnarchistKid1]

@watchyawant95 mustard gas is composed of sulfur hydrogen carbon and chlorine, where would sulfur come from let alone carbon, maybe hydrogen from the water but as long as you do this outside you will be fine

[doomsd46]

*weak, not weK

[doomsd46]

This produces Chlorine gas. Chlorine if inhaled will knock you out and possibly kill you of you breath in enough.  That is why some pools use salt to get the chlorine in the water, rather then gas, as a chlorine gas leak can kill everyone in the building. Try using vinegar next time, but it's a weK acid so a fair amount has to be used to get good results if you want to create Hydrogen gas and Oxygen gas.

[watchyawant95]

YOU ARE SO DUMB! THE YELLOW IS CHLORINE GAS... AKA MUSTARD GASSS! THERES A REASON THEY DONT TEACH CHEMISTRY IN 1ST GRADE!!

[flarn2006]

@watchyawant95 You're completely wrong. I'm completely honest when I'm saying you actually made me laugh out loud.

[poofnsauce]

@flarn2006 well he's not completely wrong, but i would recommend you know what the products are before trying anymore experiments. If you were using saturated saltwater you easily could have been killed by the chlorine gas escaping the solution.

[flarn2006]

@poofnsauce I've done this many times before and I'm fine. I'm pretty sure the amount of chlorine gas is negligible; I don't even see the faintest yellow color. Anything you see on the video is the camera's fault, or maybe the tint of the wooden floor or something.

[poofnsauce]

@flarn2006 yea for the amount of salt you use you'll be fine. But this is actually how they mass produce Chlorine in industry and if you know anything about Cl gas it's that is oxides pretty much anything vigorously (including your lungs and mucus)

[yoonsikp]

@flarn2006 You know this is most likely ferric chloride, coming from your spoons. Are they made of stainless steel?

[dec5952]

@watchyawant95 The heeelllll you talkin' 'bout whit yo' rage trollin'?

[Hadleton]

@watchyawant95 There definitely isn't enough chlorine in the solution for it to turn yellow from pure chlorine!!! Don't be ignorant and call someone else dumb when you yourself are wrong!!! The yellowish hue is from the formation of soluble iron chloride.

[opl500]

@watchyawant95 Cl2 at those concentrations would look colorless. You need a lot of Cl2 to get any sort of color at all. Mustard gas is a bit more than just Cl2. My guess is that he made some sort of iron chloride compound, if the spoons are mostly steel. FeCl(x) is still a bit nasty to handle - read up on it and wear gloves.

[TheRamazanozen]

the colour turning while the spoon dissolved.

[imatelly]

hey kid dont use salt,it can hurt you,use baking powder if anything,not baking soda but baking powder :)

[Zachdudeio2]

NaCl + H2O -(e-)> NaOH + Cl2 +H2

Sodium hydroxide in solution is highly caustic, but as far as I know, it shouldn't turn the solution yellow. For electrolysis of just water, pure H2O doesn't conduct any electricity. I think if you add just a little salt to make it conduct, it should produce oxygen. However, if you want pure oxygen, take hydrogen peroxide (found at any pharmacy) and manganese dioxide, which is found in lithium coin cells (CR2032, etc.) and combine them, you will get oxygen gas.

[poroto931]

salt is sodium chloride, this means it has sodium (Na) and Chlorine (Cl) in the aquous state (because you added water) now what you are doing is some redox reactions, the spoon you connected to the positive pole of the battery will attract negative ions (Cl- and OH-) and the one conected to the negative one the positive ions (Na+ and H+). when these gain and lose electrons (beacuse of the battery) they produce Cl2(g) and H2(g), hydrogen gas is explosive and chlorine gas is toxic. nice job!

[ricktbdgc]

and my lungs hurt like hell.. I knew I made a mistake. Im still alive, rofl childhood! I think it was clorine from the SALT. Sodium Cloride NaCL,

[ricktbdgc]

I did this attempting to create oxygen and hydrogen like in a typical electrolysis of water. I added the salt to speed up the reaction. I used 12V DC and waited like 48 hours and collected the gases in large cups. I first took the glass with more gas in it (hydrogen) and lit in on fire, It went whoosh! Fun. The other glass was super green, but I thought thats what pure oxygen looked like so I inhaled it expecting fresh air. HELL NO I almost died. Couldn't breath for a few moments

[emmettebrown]

try 230 v. a.c. its like welding .it also produces green algae like by products

[flarn2006]

@emmettebrown If I leave this going long enough I get green stuff that looks kind of like algae. It sort of floats at the top and turns the water dark; is that what you mean?

[emmettebrown]

@flarn2006 exactly.

[tallolivier]

it turns yellow because the 9 volts seperate the sodium from the chloride(yellow gas) and if it blows up its because sodium and water=hydrogen and energy creating water with enough heat and by the way chloride s toxic

[tallolivier]

it turns yellow because the 9 volts seperate the sodium from the chloride(yellow gas) and if it blows up its because sodium and water=hydrogen and energy creating water with enough heat .

[asuraywolfgang]

"probably toxic"

hey readers, i don't know, maybe it explotes but who cares, it's fun to upload videos on youtube

[aRANDOMcritic]

well if theirs salt and water in pee...

why don,t people put 9volt batterys in their pee!

[PATAR144]

HAHAHAHA where are his parents while he's breathing in chlorine gas? LMAO!

[piepie411]

i hope he died from inhaling all the chlorine fumes

[PATHLOCATOR]

Actually chlorine gas is produced ! (NaCl + H2O ---> NaOH + 1/2H2 +1/2Cl2)

Sodium Hydroxide (NaOH) is a very strong base, Hydrogen (H2) is exlosive and Chlorine (Cl2) gas is extremely poisonous, so without protection this was not the smartest thing to do indoors !

[HeinzKlops]

@PATHLOCATOR In this case most of the chlorine reacts with the metal of the spoon, which precipitates with the OH- Ions (most metal hydroxides are unsoluable in water), the dissolved metal and its hydroxide look yellow

[collidesalot]

so your making chlorine, this is called the chlorine anomaly, water is generally the strongest reducing agent, but for some reason chlorine takes its place and is oxidized by the saltwater

[lewisadams42850]

@collidesalot

its because chlorine has such a strong reducing power as its an oxidizing agent that it basically steals the electrons that would otherwise go to the oxygen and forms chlorine gas instead of oxygen gas

[jaffey2006]

you wasted 2 minutes stirring some fucking salt water

[Agentoxedo07]

Holy-Terrorist:>*=* mmm, delicious salt fries

[acmfraser]

lol thats a very pure lab grade soidum hydroxide or NaOH

[vmelkon]

At the anode, chlorine that is generated immediately reacts with the iron/nickel/chrome in your spoon to make their respective chlorides. Yes, they are toxic if you swallow it. Good job kid.

[Cheetohlover]

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[thenoobcannon]

@Cheetohlover reply to comment removed by the government of the UK. the poster has now been dragged off to some eastern european hell hole to be tortured by MI5. have a nice day.

[lordanjan1]

@Cheetohlover The US Government of America? What does that even mean?

[witherspoon1995]

@Cheetohlover that doesn't make any sense...

[Vashthespearman]

I got an important question, where the fuck is this kid's stoiceometry, I mean come on kid, this isn't a playground ( >> 100% of the time), but treat it like science, You got to use stoiceometry for the most optimum reaction. Also it's turning yellow because of the spoons reacting with the chlorine.

[smartxalex]

@Vashthespearman I'm not sure how stoiciometry is necessary for this. It's a general experiment for electrolysis. Stoiciometry is used to balance reactions, determine limiting reagents, and create a very precise reactions where you want a very certain number of moles to react. If you want stoiciometry, feel free to measure the water, the salt, the Iron III in the spoons, and calculate the moles.

[OrgSynthJosh]

Sorry you guys, while if this spoon is infact made of iron, any yellow compounds coming from the spoon are minimal, the yellow you see here is chlorine gas disolved

[wb5rue]

The bubbles are hydrogen, the water turns yellow most likely because you are producing Iron Chloride from the stainless steel spoon you are using. You are also producing Sodium Hydroxide because as the sodium is liberated from the sodium chloride it combines with the water to produce HaOH and release the hydrogen gas

[PedroT2000]

i know why i did this in school the electricity seperates the sodium in the salt from the chlorine the chlorine turns the water yellow,green, or blue as the clumps of soduim rise

[Vashthespearman]

@PedroT2000 if it turns yellow you've most likley got a reaction of Iron (III) Chloride, if its green, you've got a reaction of Iron(III) + HCl(aq), blue...im not sure of...

[smartxalex]

@PedroT2000 Actually, seeing as how NaCl is an ionic bond, it readily disassociates in water.  The Na and the Cl came apart when it was put into the water, not when the electricity ran through it.

[vmelkon]

@PedroT2000 Nope. You don't get clumps of sodium because the sodium reacts with the water and make H2 and NaOH.

[vikuserro]

Yellow? Chlorine? It may be kind of iron compounds... Spoons were used as electrodes.

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[joechuph1261]

use graphite (lead from pencils) for the positive pole will produce chlorine.If you use copper wire instead, you'll make the salt water brown, which will turn to green powder later.

[jacobdorp]

he is just making hydrogen the comination of eletricity and water makes hydrogen

[Vashthespearman]

@jacobdorp umm doo doo, yes hee is creating hydrogen, congradulations for spotting that, but it dont turn the water completely yellow, you've also got a reaction from the spoons and the chlorine, so dont be blind and say "hes only making hydrogen durrrr" come on.

[Vashthespearman]

@jacobdorp @jacobdorp umm doe doe, yes hee is creating hydrogen, congradulations for spotting that, but it dont turn the water completely yellow, you've also got a reaction from the spoons and the chlorine, so dont be blind and say "hes only making hydrogen durrrr" come on.

[RanDoMkId73]

More or less, this is just electrolysis with water. The salt adds conductivity, and, just a guess, the yellow comes from the spoons.

[darksideofthebrick13]

yellow is chlorine

[RanDoMkId73]

Cool. Thanks

[Agentoxedo07]

@darksideofthebrick13 Holy-Terrorist:>*=*

[5aaron5]

just skip to 2:00, it seriously takes him that long to get the salt water ready.

[krusherkid]

lol at the end it looks like piss

[marconarajos]

The yellow is iron oxide. Iron reacts with the oxygen in the water in an electrochemical process called rusting :)

[killer6468]

dad comes downstairs oo orange juice drinks and goes crazy LOL sorry any ways good vid

[metalguitarist1000]

my friend got 2 drops of hydrochloric acid on his arm and he started to get tears in his eyes lol!

[ITSTHETINGLE]

I DID THE SAME THING

[rizikm]

I kind of think you're making hydrochloric acid.

H2O + NaCl -(electricity)-> HCl + NaOH

Try putting a tarnished penny in it. And wash your hands quickly if you touch it.

[Princessgurl1088]

what happens to the penny and wut happens if u dont wash ur hands

[rizikm]

Hydrochloric acid will dissolve the tarnish off a penny. It will also dissolve the skin off your hands.

[AHW214]

Actually I think its

NaCl (AQ) + (electricity) = H2 + Cl2 + NaOH (AQ)

[RanDoMkId73]

NIce. Evaporate/Filter the end results and you get lye/caustic soda/ strong Base

[Martiinkun]

your not 15 o-o

[XxEvilSk8ersxX]

thts weird