Make Hydrochloric Acid

[terawattyear]

Yes, I like this. I suspect the HCl I got at the hardware store is loaded with Fe contamination. I wanted to make some that I know to be pure. Following your instructions I can probably reserve my H2SO4 for other purposes. Your trap method is more sophisticated than what I envisioned too. Thx!

[ZTrasher]

was there a bug in your ice?

[ZTrasher]

a big bug

[fdsdh1]

I'll just pop down to my local shop and buy some sodium bisulphate!

[fdsdh1]

HCL= Horrible Corrosive Liquid

[hinno95]

@fdsdh1 To bad that it is: HCl and not HCL

[fdsdh1]

@hinno95 damn I have forgotten so much since last year!

[diegonikki]

uhh question do u have sulfur hexaflouride in you ?

[Akademee]

I thoguht I left the word "titration" back in high school -_-

[TboneIsRogue]

See the dislike bar? Me neither :D.

[kdc43]

Isn't hydrochloric acid naturally produced by our stomachs to digest our food?

[thien369852]

@kdc43 Yeah, but you can't get acid from your stomach anyway

[HUsoldier171]

@nurdrage i wanted to know if a good way to get 37 to 40% hydrochloric acid would be to chill both the suckback trap and the receiver beaker and to put chilled 32% acid into the receiver.

[benplotke]

Love the voice.

[shadowman19991]

how can you purify Hydrochloric Acid

[theminiscientist88]

sulfuric acid is my favourite beverage

[fuckyoucauleehogan]

NOW TO MAKE SOME GOOD METH

[TheSkitzs]

what it the name of the attachment

[TheSkitzs]

i made this it great

[asilovesyou]

i am soo freakings scared watching acid gosh i sawsome videos of the most stupit pp trowing acid on pp faces gosh .... i hope pp realise how stupit this is and just use the gum lol thats a joke ofc but u get the point

[nikola96uf]

This that water comes to absorb hydrogen chloride, i did this with carbon dioxide and water and it also pulls water. HCl is mych more soluble in water than CO2. In your video making nitric acid NO2 doesn' do this. Why? It is alo soluble in water(it reacts). And also reaction of sulfur dioxide with hydrogen peroxide... Can made H2SO4 be backed in reaction mixture by this?

[AlChemicalLife]

whats the reaction. dose it go (NaHSO4 +Nacl+h20--->hcl + Na2SO4 +h20

[traviscannon97]

Meth lab?

[SargentLimpDick]

@traviscannon97 *sigh*

[hotchicksandpuppies]

Right about now.

[FuLlCiiRcLe]

You sound like a troll with a cold lol

[bigarmyrob]

"I want to play a game."

Thats all I could think of listening to this lol

[hatemelaterok]

I would like to see a video making these chemicals from minerals found outside. I once found some potassium nitrate salts forming on a celler wall. I thought about crushing it up with some high sulphur coal to make some rudimentary gun powder. I have not gotten around to it yet and don't have a camera toYT it.

[daviddanielgraham]

What is the take-off adapter called that you are using to prevent backflow? Thanks in advance, and thanks for the great experiment! :D

[AfroSamuraiTheMaster]

you should take a chicken thigh and dip it in HCl to see what happens and what becomes left of it :D

[AspiringCriminals]

question,

can i just buy store bought muriatic acid and heat it?? will that give me the necessary gas to get that hydrochloric acid

[purplemutantas]

@AspiringCriminals It's rather pointless and silly to use hydrochloric acid to make hydrochloric acid.

[AspiringCriminals]

@purplemutantas

So If I heat the Muriatic Acid will the fumes be HCl gas?

[purplemutantas]

@AspiringCriminals You obviously didn't understand my comment. Muriatic acid is hydrochloric acid. You strike me as the kind of person that isn't smart enough to be messing around with hydrochloric acid. You could have easily answered your own question with a simple google search. Google "muriatic acid" and the first link is to the wikipedia article for hydrochloric acid. If you aren't smart enough to do a simple google search, you aren't smart enough to play with strong acid

[AspiringCriminals]

@purplemutantas

successful troll is successful 

[TheWildfire53]

can i bubble hydrogen and chlorine into water to make hcl?

[stam50cal]

in the middle flask, if i use a stoper with 2 holes, will that work as well?

[stevenliang96]

Can I replace filtering flask with erlenmeyer flask?

[MrDimebagdarell]

I obtained sulfuric acid from liquid drain cleaner, will it work in this reaction?

[shadowman19991]

nurdrage

[shadowman19991]

how can concentrate hydrochloric Acid

[QuantumChance]

yup that was pretty dramatic

would really have sucked to do that not expecting it to backflow

[miesrah12]

can you do a video on Hydrofluoric acid?

[1198g]

Would Iodized salt still work or do you need pure NaCl?

[TenderSalmon]

what's the chemical equation?

[MrAcid1000]

@TenderSalmon

NaCl + NaHSO4 -> Na2SO4 + HCl

[jasleil]

We have that acid inside our body an yet, we are still alive for some reason.

LOL

[XxTheGreenDeathxX]

Put a ant in there

[fenderbunny1211]

does it matter what % SB is in the ph down i have some that in the high 80s will that work?

[apocalypticchickenz]

my science class wanted to do an experiment with sulfuric acid and sugar however being a middle school we can not do this could you consider making a video of this reaction as there are none out there that are good are you working on or going to make a video explaining and showing this

[apocalypticchickenz]

@apocalypticchickenz or ca you show this in another video please love the show

[Heinzx3]

What about hydroflouric acid?

May you please make a guide or is this stuff too dangerous?

[YJunj13]

Delian!

[someone83098]

I also checked online stores and lab glassware is very expensive. Anyone know where I can get cheaper glassware?

[imsmarterthanu007]

@someone83098 its pretty expensive everywhere but i would go to ebay and get their kits it saves alot of money on postage 2

[klj2503]

@someone83098

Ebay - China sellers.. But fine glassware is expensive toys.

[BlackMagicProd]

where do you buy your glasswear?

[someone83098]

I'm just wondering ,where do you get your glassware?

[MrSuednym]

@someone83098 I'm getting a feeling he's a professional chemist. So he probably has access to the equipment in his lab. He does most experiments in a fume hood, and I doubt too many people have those in their homes ;)

[klj2503]

@MrSuednym Im pretty sure he's a doctor, and works at a university. He mentioned the doctor thing in an other video.

[MrPenfold84]

Jigsaw lives! He's finally decided to put his skills to a good use.

[pikmin786]

I bet this guy has a Meth Lab...

[crackahcrackah]

@pikmin786 You watch too much television.

[pikmin786]

@crackahcrackah coming from a person with CRACK in his name...

[crackahcrackah]

@pikmin786 Primitive conditioning associations for primitive minds.

[TheTitanium22]

I did this along time ago when I was 9...

[ThaTrolloverThar]

Pity Hydrochloric acid doesn't go as well with my chips as acetic acid.

[rahul74347]

why did we use ice and not water???????

[kicsiqki]

@rahul74347

To help the gas condensate better/faster.

[MrAcid1000]

@rahul74347

Lower temperature = more gas dissolve in water.

[StefanB2112]

@MrAcid1000 then why in the container on the left on a hot plate?

[AhmedFromKSA]

i use to make it every day... then i took an arrow to the knee...

[StefanB2112]

@AhmedFromKSA Skyrim quote ?

[DeathBedz]

you sound sad in this one :(

[Zappyguy111]

I naively attempted to conduct electrolysis on a NaCl water solution in the vain hope of producing sodium (I now know the proper method of attaining Sodium and I lack the equipment to do it via electrolysis). I do recall a strong sent of Chlorine gas which lead me to stop the test. I'm certain the three by products would have been NaOH, chlorine and hydrogen gas. Would this be an accurate guess? I thought there was hydrogen chloride gas but I would think it would be a sour smell.

[NurdRage]

@Zappyguy111 Yes, those 3 are produced. Although it gets more complicated: as the pH rises from the NaOH the chlorine produced redissolves and you start making NaClO and if you keep going you eventually start making NaClO3 and NaClO4

[Zappyguy111]

@NurdRage

Interesting.

So for the cost of two paper clips, a 9V battery, glass of water and tea spoon of salt I could make bleach... and moderately explosive hydrogen gas and highly noxious chlorine gas.

Thanks for the reply.

[MrDubstepaholic]

i just hunt xenomorphs, nothing like a good old fashioned bug hunt.

[newzhenxuan98]

what is your latest videos?

[sk8shred]

What's the concentration of mol/L H+ (aq) + Cl- (aq) in this experiment

[jojo19001]

can you show how cars run on water?

[NurdRage]

@TheSpencel if you think its fake, try it yourself.

[MrDubstepaholic]

@NurdRage lol u know he wont

[marcomili]

@NurdRage It is true that many advances in science are made thinking that something/someone is not correct; and that anyone has the right to repeat an experiment to clear and draw conclusions... BUT, If you THESPENCEL think this is fake, let me tell you that YOU ARE SO FUCKING STUPID, A RETARDED DICK-SUCKER THAT MUST SHOUT THE FUCK UP 'CAUSE YOU KNOW NOTHING OF CHEMISTRY!

[jojotjuh]

@TheSpencel olololololol moron

[jakubgt1]

Can you show us how to make lysergic acid?

[k0namiman]

Is the backflow caused by vacuum? Or is it caused by the solubility of hydrogen chloride in water, the gas pulling the water towards it?

[Spart248]

What is the "attachment" called. The one that deals with the feedback problem.

[Tl82T]

is there any catalyst we can use to speed up the reaction?

[MrAcid1000]

@Tl82T

Reaction is fast, and without heating when you use concentrated sulphuric acid and sodium chloride.

[angel11811]

now , make some hydrofluoric acid

[nybotheveg]

@angel11811 you're insane, you know that? ^^

[THENOSAUR]

Hey where do you get your experiments?

[Boredclub2ndgen]

Can I join the Nurdrage group? :)

[mattaddison19]

Make some C4 please :D

[megvagyimmartizenyol]

you know the feeling when ur eating something crunchy, and trying to watch a video ur interested in, but u cant hear it? XD

[reaperdeadlikeme]

Omg its JiggSaw

[TheCerberusInferno]

The voice of the guy who talk scare me lol ..

[TheGuyInUrCloset]

Wouldnt it be easier (less chemicals) to put a brine (water and sodium chloride [table salt]) through electrolysis?

[Barrosy]

You're all geeks and nerds watching this kind of video, Thumbs up to let everyone know, even the little fella's on schools! :)

[kettyca666]

AWESOME ! :D i'm ur fan! I'm a chemistry student and i love ur vids! And you make me research so much! I love it!

[ApertureScience27]

I've been thinking about making a membrane (Nafion) chloralkali cell to make chlorine, hydrogen, and sodium hydroxide from a sodium chloride solution, and I would really appreciate some advice.

[NurdRage]

@ApertureScience27 i'm actually working on that too. i hope to get a video of the process up eventually.

[Athiril]

@NurdRage That would be awesome

[jayofthe400]

@NurdRage I'm no scientist... But don't aliens bleed this stuff? Or am I thinking of a different acid?

[QuantumChance]

Nurd, stop responding to the idiots ~ not worth the time. Thanks for the videos

[liberalboi]

i cant wait to get older so i can actually buy this stuff

[StaigeFright]

I figured it out thanks anyway. It is a 24/40 distillation adaptor. Love you channel and hope you keep up the good work.

[Hollowhead50]

great now i need a video on how to make sodium bisulfate

[StaigeFright]

Is the thing on the round bottom flask a 1361 gas generator stopper? If t is not could you tell me what it is called? I have obtained most of  the equipment to try this experiment but the stopper on the round bottom flask has eluded me.

[emmettebrown]

I just have a question. and pls. answer it. Is stomach acid pure HCl? or not. If yes I'll just try to puke.

[idrivetardis]

Hi again. I really like ur videos. I can't understand one thing. If sodium bisulfate lowers the pH of a solution, then why is it considered an acidic salt in wikipedia?

[FPengu1n]

@idrivetardis Acidic salts lower pH.

The lower the pH the more acidic something is.

[idrivetardis]

Or u can go to a home depot store and go to the pool section. Muriatic acid is concentrated hcl

[NurdRage]

@idrivetardis I think you completely missed the point of learning stuff.

[crackahcrackah]

@NurdRage Bingo. Thanks for your posts. With out nerds and those with a love of learning, the masses would not be masses, and they would still be living in mud huts and caves.

[Dark0Lord7]

@idrivetardis Muriatic acid is DILUTE hydrochloric acid.

[MrAcid1000]

@Dark0Lord7

muriatic acid is another acid for hydrochloric acid, not depends of concentration.

[nawhz]

I like you, nerd mother.

[eduajvhades]

wtf whats the sense of this if you already have sulfuric acid dud lol :D

[NurdRage]

@eduajvhades You know jack shit about chemistry if you think sulfuric acid is superior in all respects to hydrochloric acid.

Ever try making aqua regia?

[eduajvhades]

@NurdRage i dont now a shit about it but my reason to be here is to obtain sulfuric acid in order to make nitric acid , hi concentrated acid to obtain better results

[NurdRage]

@eduajvhades This video is about making hydrochloric acid, not sulfuric acid. Go look at my video on making sulfuric acid.

[13illumination]

eduajvhades, you should read some books!

[TheShadowman60]

@NurdRage ...Is it bad that i learned from aqua regia from Amnesia the dark descent?

I looked it up on google and found out it was real.

I understood *Most* of the things in your videos, but I'm no chemist. :P

[MrAMColes]

@NurdRage Dissolve some gold just for the lols

[1shot3killsH3]

HCl baby!

[StaigeFright]

Thank you for making this stuff look easy! I am curious, do you know what the percentage of concentration is of the Hydrochloric Acid in your video. Also, is there away to estimate the concentration based on certain dependant and independant variables? I understand if the last question would be to hard to explain to a novice. Thank you for doing these videos, they are awesome and easy to understand. I would also like to know if you have a special place to shop for chemicals and equipment.

[goodzgood100]

@StaigeFright interesting

[hahafunny1225]

wouldn't 100% hydrochloric acid burn through the glass? I am only 12 and we didn't learn much about it but we leaned that it could burn through metal and if you wanted the pure stuff, stick your finger down your throat haha

[mcwario13]

what is sodium bisulfite?!?

[2dallahoe]

lol, dude, nerdrage, is that a finger in the icewater??? lmao totally looks like it

[1994maffy]

can someone please explain how i obtain 5% concentration from this method.

[MrAcid1000]

@1994maffy

12g of NaHSO4 and 6g of NaCl should have produced about 3g of HCl, then dissolve the gas in 50 ml of water.

3/53*100% = 5.66% Hydrochloric acid

[aaappp51]

my brother is only 8 and he has access to conc. h2so4

[aaappp51]

Isn't it easier to just by muriatic(epic spelling failure)acid from hard ware stores?:)

[iNFamousAAC]

@aaappp51 Its exploring the chemistry, not offering a substitute for bought stuff.

[0coldfinger0]

When you used the Blue PH paper, that kind of brought me back. I haven't used that stuff in ages.

[NinjaFreak500]

Good video. I might make hydrochloric acid and I only needI the sodium bisulfate.

[andreh4eva]

what is the temperature needed to get the reaction kicking?

[PyroDesu]

Your chemistry videos = PURE WIN.

[iskatelikeanoob]

one question where do u get all ur chemicals

[cassiavc]

I wonder if that could be made using chlorine gas instead of the HCl gas.

[crapbag1997]

i have two inquiries could i make concentrated acid like this also could i just use a condenser on the hydrogen dhloride pleae reply

[spotlightman1234]

@crapbag1997 no the hydrogen chloride needs to be dissolved in water.

[keglimp]

what is that thing in the crushed ice?

[Aviatorsmith]

@keglimp It's a magnetic stirrer. The thing in the ice is a magnet and the plate below the beaker generates magnetic fields to spin it.

[keglimp]

@Aviatorsmith ok. thank you. i thought it was something like that :P better to ask questions when unsure :)

[Aviatorsmith]

@keglimp Yep.

[RICKROLLBLENDER]

I thought you were afraid of hydrochloric acid...

[spotlightman1234]

@RICKROLLBLENDER He said he was afraid of hydroFLUORIC acid, which is very toxic.

[RICKROLLBLENDER]

@spotlightman1234

thought it was hydrochloric.... I might have heard it wrong. :S

[sjagkid]

or you can do it the fast way by mixing bleach with ammiona sure its not safe and u might die but its faster...... just ignore this comment unless you want to breath in acid

[blackjack659]

what is the name of the top you put in the neck of the round bottom flask?

[wihty]

funny thing^^- fill the roundbottomflask with hydrochloricgas than turn it quickly on a container with water. what will happen is, the hydrochloricgas dissolve in the water by sucking the water in the roundbottomflask ;D

[joeysmodz]

if u hav sulfuric acid why wud u want hydrochloric acid

[PaintballEclipse]

8 ppl accidentaly swallowed the sodium bisulfate , and had to call poison control

[HUsoldier171]

@nurdrage PLZ REPLY would hydrogen peroxide increase the yield or purity if used in place of distilled water

[spotlightman1234]

@HUsoldier171 No, if anything it would contaminate it. Just use distilled water.

[dingo596]

@THEM589 get superpowers

(jk, you will probably die)

[iluvkipkay]

I luv nurdrage but I'm happy I don't hav 2 make this cos it's hard 2 find chemicals in australia, cos I found out our pool acid is just hydrocloric acid. YAY

[michel6]

You can produce a good amount of cheap Hydrochloric acid listening Justin Bieber

[Peaserist]

you can just by it on amazon for $10 bucks plus $9 s+h

[82Caver]

I have looked everywhere....PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME....WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE FRIGGIN' PART used in the middle to catch the HCL and drop it into the flask...PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!!!

[xxxletsmakeascenexx1]

so on a low budget is there any way else to make hydrochloric acid with an alternative to sodium bisulfate, and possibly with household chemicals, i am also looking for a very good yeild.

[marcuspinson]

couldnt you avoid backfire like that by using two "one way" valves one in the stopper with the air flow going in and one at the exhaust with the air flow going out so you dont end up with that vacuum recompression issue