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  • "sulfuric acid isn't that dangerous"...... as a top comment? what do you work as, a window licker? (for the record, like many other have said, its dangerous, and will burn you, come on read the MSDS)

  • Sorry to be a pain but there is a lot of bad advise here. 18M H2SO4 is very strong and will fucking burn the crap out of your skin in multiple ways. Of course it won't kill you but that dosen't make it any safer. I've worked with it. Never minimize the risks of it.

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  • now drink it muthafucka !

  • So are doritos if you eat enough of em. This is high school chemistry relax people.

  • I still find this video pointless, but interesting for the sake of chemistry. But 30% HCl can be found in any hardware store, and bought without any problems.

  • Darkpigion mentioned that h2s04 is a colourless solution. yes, in solution, but anhydrous h2s04 (which is not a chemical in solution) is a yellowish oily liquid. 18M DOES NOT mean "fully concentrated" it means there are 18 moles of h2s04 atoms per liter of water.

    18M, or anhydrous sulfuric acid, is EXTREMELY dangerous, i have been personally burned by that acid and it is instant and very painful.

  • @lulzwhot The formal definition of 'caustic' is: "Able to burn or corrode organic tissue by chemical action." And it does not only apply to bases, even though it's mostly used in relation to NaOH or KOH.

  • @lulzwhot

    18M means around -1.3 of pH ... I would never put that shit on my fingers, not even with gloves (I mean, not even a single drop)

    But still it can be a very good/useful catalyst!

  • The amount of retarded posts is astounding. Anhydrous sulfuric is in fact an oily liquid. 18 molar sulfuric acid, if you get it on your skin, will cause serious chemical burns almost instantly. I'm sure most of the people commenting have never actually dealt with any of these chemicals, For example "EnhanceTheTruth" mentioned that h2so4 is caustic; the word caustic is only applied to bases (the opposite of acids).

  • Nice set up, nice reaction,

  • Nice set up, nice reaction, thanks for sharing.

  • I have read about only a few acids, and how they don't actually dissolve items like metal or glass, but they superheat the items to their melting point. Like Sulfuric, and Nitric acid can be contained in glass and no problem, but Hydrochloric Acid will start to melt glass, so how do you contain it, without it melting out you testing flasks? I want it to stay pure as possible, I surely do not wish to dilute it??

  • @efferize

    Hydrochloric acid doesn't attack glass, but many metals, except noble metals like copper, silver, gold, platinum. Lead isn't a noble metal, but it isn't dissolved by HCl neither because of the insolubility of Lead Chloride into HCl, which forms a protective layer. Glass can chemically be attacked by Hydrofluoric acid, which is not only corrosive but also very toxic.

  • isn't Sulfiric acid IN LEMOND!?!??!

  • @Dantedevil1005 Citric acid atleast 

  • @Dantedevil1005 I think that's citric acid, if there is hydrocholoric acid in that, it's very little, putting lemon juice on your skin won't burn you after all.

  • How pure is this HCl since the salt is iodized? and whats the concentration?

  • @NewToTheLyte

    In salt , there is about 99.8% of NaCl, so it's quite pure.

  • @NewToTheLyte

    There are only traces of Iodine in iodized table-salt (Iodine is added here by sodium iodate (NaIO3), which is stable on the air. Iodides (like NaI) many get oxidized by the oxygen of the air (it works when they are in an aequous solution) and might form brown residues of elemental Iodine. Since Hydrogenchloride is a gas it has to be adsorbed by water in the receiver. A maximun concentration of 40% by weight is possible. Here I think, are not more than 20% possible.

  • are you mute or something

  • Well, aren't you the little alchemist. I would have no idea what to do with it, but great you can make it!

  • you are doing so many things wrong. but good job :)

  • Now how do you make sulfuric acid?

  • @WelcomeToTheFreekSho

    There are several ways - you could react a metabisulfite with an acid and generate SO2 gas and lead it into H2O2 to add oxygens, or you could do an electrolysis of copper sulfate solution using a copper cathode and carbon anode.

  • Go to home depot and buy muriatic acid.. same thing as HCL but by another name.

  • @jaws99099 Its not as concentrated and pure as making it with the right chemicals.

  • I once spilled 14 or 16M nitric acid on my arm. It turned green and smoked where the acid hit it. And burned like a sumbitch. But that's nitric not sulfuric.

  • what will be the concentration of that hydrochloric acid in %???

  • Sulfuric acid isn't that dangerous. If you get it on your skin you can just wash it off quickly. It's caustic, not lethal. Chill out people.

  • @EnhanceTheTruth agreed, though 18M is pretty harsh. If you were to take standard car battery acid (from your usual open lead-acid style batt) and add it to salt, I am thinking that the result would be HCl with a molarity similar to that of stomach acid. I have consumed car battery acid (from a weak battery so slightly lower molarity) on tongue down throat etc with no damage. strength was much like that of lemon extract or stomach acid.

  • @EnhanceTheTruth

    I don't agree: Sulphuric acid (especially the concentrated acid) is a very dangerous liquid. It is a strong acid (which is used to release other acid from their salts, like HCl in this video) and causes servere burns on skin and other materials.

    An additional aspect is it's hygroscopic property which carbonises organic matter (like human skin) at the spot. When I deal with it, I am always aware of the danger of H2SO4 and wear protective goggles and gloves.

  • @EnhanceTheTruth I've had sulfuric acid in my face several times, also a bit on my hands and thigh, nothing to worry about.

  • @iasedu Haha fair game, dont hear that every day.

  • @EnhanceTheTruth LOL OK then, concentrated sulfuric acid is a thick yellow oil. The stuff you're talking about is dilute. Like battery acid for example. Conc S. Acid will fuck you up.

  • @legacyabq Conc H2SO4 is a colourless solution, the bloke in the video used 18M sulphuric acid (fully concentrated), it was not a thick yellow oil.

  • @EnhanceTheTruth Go drink a gallon of sulfuric acid and tell me it isn't lethal.

  • @EnhanceTheTruth Its not lethal, but it bloody stings when you spill conc sulphuric acid on yourself :P

  • @EnhanceTheTruth Not that dangerous? It is usually known to be potentially more dangerous than HCl. Not only is it highly caustic (corrosive) and can damage tissues such as skin, the violent exothermic reaction with water can also provide more skin/tissue damage. It will also decompose amides and esters easily (muscles and fat). It also depends of course on concentration. Never minimize the risks of dangerous chemicals.

  • you should use an electric plate instead of direct heating with fire, far more safely, also the gloves man!

  • 18 molar no protection thats just stupid

  • Why bother making hydrochloric acid if you already have sulfuric acid?

  • @PaladinswordSaurfang 'cause the bubbles are AWESOME!!

  • @PaladinswordSaurfang For different reactions and more fun dissolving things. Sulphuric acid can't do what HCl can.

  • @PaladinswordSaurfang

    Because you can, chemistry is about seeing what you can accomplish and how you can accomplish it. Sure you could use sulfuric acid, or just buy hydrochloric acid, but most people who have a passion for chemistry and science like myself would much rather see if we could make something rather then buy it.

  • @Boredclub2ndgen Well I'd rather make hydrochloric acid from salt, like the video title says. :/

  • @PaladinswordSaurfang Simple, get some Sodium Chloride and water.... do electrolysis and collect the Chlorine(Cl2) gas and save the sodium hydroxide.

    Then keep the sodium hydroxide and water and do electrolysis again and collect the hydrogen(H2) gas.

    Go into a pitch black dark room, mix the two gasses.... stand back and shine a light on them.

    They'll explode and form Hydrogen Chloride.

    Add water to the Hydrogen Chloride and youll have Hydrochloric acid (hydronium ions and chlorine ions).

  • @PaladinswordSaurfang If you need pure sodium chloride instead of iodized table salt(which wont work), you can get some laundry bleach(Sodium Hypochlorite - NaOCl) and add hydrogen peroxide (HOOH) til its fully reacted.... youll get pure oxygen(O2) gas and sodium chloride(NaCl).

  • @havabighed or just buy non iodized salt.

  • @punkskamp420 no, thats way too easy... lol

    Actually I just have a concern about purity, but for all intensive purposes non-iodized salt would work.

  • @havabighed couldn't you just distill it after to up the purity?

  • @punkskamp420 well... not really.

    First of all, purifying it would first require me to know what the source of the NaCl was.

    And second of all... distillation is a process that usually involves liquids.... sodium chloride is a solid....

    For instance... If you wanted to purify the NaCl from a KI (potassium iodide) mixture of iodized salt(which actually contains more chemicals than just those 2)....

    Youd have to boil off the salt with the lower boiling point... KI, which takes a heat of 2426 °F

  • @punkskamp420 if you bought pure sodium chloride, then it would work fine... most sea-salt contains sodium, potassium, magnesium, sulfate ions, chlorine..... you have to use other methods, distillation is not how you would do it.

  • @punkskamp420 A better method than "distillation" would be decantation.... distillation would only remove the water from the ions in the water... and most tap water has been fluoridated.... so you would just separate the water from the sodium chloride and fluorine.

  • @punkskamp420 one method that you could use to purify sodium chloride from potassium iodide would probably involve dissolving both of them in a large tank of water and the heaver salts should sink to the bottom of the mixture.... then you could decant the part of the liquid containing the KI off of the part containing the NaCl....

  • @havabighed

    Probably a forced crystallisation might work: you start with a mixture of both salts (NaCl / KI) in water and allow the water to evaporate. First the salt with the lower solubilty (NaCl) will start to from crystals, while the KI remains in solution. Since NaCl is cheap and KI is relatively expansive (Iodine is a rather rare element), you'd remove the NaCl by filtration and discard it. Then when more and more water evaporates, KI will also start to crystalize.

  • @PaladinswordSaurfang because the two acids aren't the same thing.

  • @PaladinswordSaurfang to waste sulfuric acid

  • Is that a good idea to handle sulfuric acid without wearing gloves?

  • ouch fool it is poking me

  • Most of us don't have have access to h2so4 to make this otherwise we could just buy HCL :)

  • @jaws99099 u can buy concentrated h2so4 on ebay

  • @killerkyle2008 No Shit!? I'll have to check that out. Thanks for the heads up on that.

  • @killerkyle2008 Holy shit. They sell so much stuff on e-bay. They even sell thermite LOL.

  • how do i check the strengh of the acid

  • @ribman1998 litmus paper and then theres some -(log) calculations u must do, idk something like that look it up

  • @ribman1998 Look up titration. You'd get a very accurate amount of your HCL solution and see how much of a know strength base it takes to neutralise it.

  • @ribman1998 negative log of the concentration of hydrogen molecules per liter.

  • Lol I saw this and thought it would be cool to make some HCL(aq) But i have to have sulfuric acid first :(

  • way to turn a cool acid into a lame one

  • I got into chemistry in the first place because I read in the paper that it was easy to find out how to make meth on the internet. So i looked it up, and looked it up until I found a way to do it that I could understand. Then I looked up how other drugs are made. 10 Years later Im still fascinated with chemistry and I am glad I was able to find the methamphetamine synthesis. Information is not a crime, use your better judgement and don't be a criminal.

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  • well, you may not be able to buy high concentration of sulfuric acid, but still, if you know your stuff, you can do it... still... better to learn first abou chemistry then... experiment.

  • good job, now drink it.

  • Does anyone know what salt that was? I'm assuming either NaCl (Sodium Chloride) or NH4Cl (Ammonium Chloride)?

  • @FreakishAnimeFan The trivial name for salt is NaCl

  • @olx222 Well, thanks for pointing out the obvious. -.-" However, that doesn't answer my question.

  • nice work, can you show H+ acids to isomerization of honey oil could be further refined?

  • ha be careful with that HCL gas lol dont get it in ur eyes....

  • If you have access to sulfuric acid, you probably wouldn't need to resort to this for making hydrochloric acid. Haha. But the process is still fun :)

  • breaking bad brought me here

  • @IamAnonymous0 breaking bad plus the love of chemistry bought me here lol 

  • Cool!!! Sooo wat do I do with it now...? :)

  • @piepowa NOMNOMNOMNOMNOM HCL!!!

  • Great video...it used to be that Chemistry was a required class in high school but the corporatists have all but banned knowledge of chemistry! These videos are educational and fascinating! Just hope no one blows himself up playing around with chemicals!

  • Handling that quantity of *18 MOLAR* H2SO4 with no protection... you're fucking batshit nuts.

  • @Yackassss appears s/he was wearing low-reactive nitrileesque gloves and think there was a respirator on as well.

  • @Yackassss and not underneath a fume hood either...

  • @Yackassss its all fine.. i handle entire bottles of conc. acids allday in the lab. and i never wear gloves

  • @chockn

    And what if you dropped the bottle? What if it leaked? I think you're insane if you refuse to wear gloves with conc. acids.

  • @98JMA if i drop the bottle on the floor? you think gloves will magicly protect my shoes or pants? :)

  • @chockn

    Ok, what if, for example, you trip and the bottle and you end up on the floor . . .you could potentially end up with your hands and face in it. There is an endless amount of ways it could contact you, so always wear gloves. Experience; chemist.

  • @98JMA im a chemist (: but if i trow a bottle on the ground for whatever reason i will stay clear of the area immediatly until i clean it all up. and gloves wont help you if acid spills onto your face for whatever reason. wearing protective goggles and having working emergency equipment nearby is much more important. especialy running water and the possibility to shower within seconds of exposure.

  • @chockn

    Fair enough, but as a chemist you should still know the importance of wearing gloves.

  • @Yackassss Or he's Severus Snape.

  • @Yackassss am agree wd u..

  • @jonalululy

    H2SO4 is actually quite easy to obtain. Just drain the cells of a 12V car battery, filter out the lead, and boil it down to your preference. It may not be the purest of acid but it will surely get the job done. Though, I'm not sure if it would yield the best HCl in this reaction due to the impurities in the battery.

  • @jonalululy They both serve different purposes actually. And he shows the H2SO4 to be 18Molar so you can imagine the strength of the HCl produced. You cant buy Extremely strong HCl from the hardware store

  • @humwangerdoodle but you can buy highly concentrated sulfuric acid at the hardware store? I'm genuinely asking, i don't know.

  • @ImmaDwarfKicker No I think it requires a certain license for that which he is using in the video. Its pointless productivity wise. Its just showing off the experimental side of things. You can buy Hydrochloric acid (Suppose you could probably buy weak Sulphuric too) but again not very concentrated.

  • @humwangerdoodle i get sulferic acid thats about 95% from this thing called liquid fire at hardware stores

  • @Zepolodon Do you live in Australia?

  • @humwangerdoodle i tested Rooto for the purity of the sulfuric acid in it, and it was 95, and liquid fire seems to have the same quality and react-ability probably no more than 10% difference if any, i love nice sulferic acid

  • I've got a suggestion, takethe camera, put it further away so you dont have to change the view the whole time..

  • @jonalululy Actually, you can get 2 gallons of hydrochloric acid for cheap at most hardware stores. Also, some people are more interested in the chemistry than you might be.

  • @jonalululy if you buy the right drain cleaner it will be 95% sulfuric acid and spirits of salt is hydrocloric acid so it can be baught just not pure

  • Its important to not use iodized salt... or youll get hydrochloric acid and hydroiodic acid and a couple other pieces of crap.... cause theres 4 chemicals in iodized salt

  • how much was the concentration of the sulfuric acid?

  • @oglow100 Maby a Regular Grade.

  • @oglow100 96%

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  • does HCl gas condense if you used a distillation let up? and you would get better yeild if you were to use H2O2 instead of water and does the reaction of NaHSO4 and NaCl also make HCl gas when they are both molten together?

  • So do you ever check your video from 3 years? .. I noticed "smoke "coming from your gloves.. Reaction to the fumes or what?

  • that is in pour stomachs

    

  • Anyone who tries this at home should wear at least an air-filtrate mask and hopefully a respirator of some sort, the gas produced can kill you quite easily by scaring your lungs.

  • @blackt0wer Oh noes! I hope my lungs don't get to frightened!

  • Hey,

    go to nurdrage

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  • Hydrochloric acid is less expensive and cheaper than sulfuric acid, why in the world would you use sulfuric acid to make weaker hydrochloric acid??

  • @nickbhalo why did u say less expensive and cheaper :P

    

  • @HazorTheHopeEnder Just to show you how much cheaper and less expensive it really is :)

  • how motch grams of salt?

  • is the sulfuric acid in a plastic container?

  • wait, how could this be??? in physical chemistry, the NaCl has a strong attraction force?? how could he easily replace NaCl and H2SO4 to HCl and NaHSO4

  • @Lloydy9101 Because hydrogen is just as "willing" (for lack of a better word) as sodium to give an electron to chlorine and obtain a full valence configuration. In addition, I highly doubt that was pure sulfuric acid - I suspect it was an aqueous solution, and since the sodium and chloride ions would have dissociated in the water the chloride ions would have been free to combine with hydrogen atoms from the sulfuric acid.

  • Drugs are the only reason most my friends know the metric system.

  • thats smart dude handle a sulfuric acid bottle right at the opening with no gloves

    

  • waste of H2SO4

  • It's a nice video, but you again show your lack of safety. You're not wearing gloves while pouring concentrated acid, and you're heating borosilicate flask over naked flame. One day it will crack or burst.

    Also, you can't shove a glass tube with pouring HCl in water. There is a great chance it will be violently sucked in the reaction vessel.

    It's great you enjoy experimenting, but you should really examine what can go wrong before actually doing something in the lab.

  • Why did you use all those unrelated words in your tags???

  • what happend to the sodium?????'

  • @SuperMrBentley single displacement! it's in the reactant vessel but it's on the right side as a product still.

    Does this look right?: NaCl+H2SO4 -> HCl + NaSO (unbalanaced)

  • @quexalcoatl Ok, I agree with the reaction NaCl +H2SO4---HCl+ NaSO, but is the NaSO in form of those white fumes? or is a precipitate at the bottom of the flask? or is it dissolved in the HCl solution? I mean a physical form for NaSO. Thanks!!

  • All acids fume like that, the NaSO I believe is the solids left after the reaction is complete as a biproduct.

  • @quexalcoatl No it is like this (unbalanced): NaCl+H2SO4->HCl+Na2So4 and Balanced: 2NaCl+H2SO4->2HCl+Na2So4

  • @quexalcoatl No it looks like this NaCl+H2SO4 ---> HCl+NaHSO4

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  • @taigi100 Maybe, but I'd rather make it 2NaCl + H2SO4 ---> 2HCl +Na2(SO4), so it's a 2:1-2:1.

    I poked around at Wikipedia, looks like it's called the Mannheim reaction.

  • @quexalcoatl thats how i know it from school but iv looked on google and it sais my version so im confused

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  • So, Dr. Basco #36 You just made toilet bowl cleaner. But how much did you save? I think I can get it pretty cheap. I'll just buy my own - thanks anyway.

  • @BigWhiteTurkey The product's purity is the same level as the reactant's. Try making toilet bowl cleaner lab grade.

  • were do you get the sulfliric acid

  • @NTV99 They dont sell reagent-grade sulfuric acid to unlicensed (or inexperienced) chemists, you know.

  • @NTV99 Car batteries, for one. Might not be too pure though, but if you heat it until fumes start to appear it should be potent enough. (60-70%)

    "Now that you know how to do it, don't do it."

  • ya know you can buy muriatic acid really cheap. I don't see why you would want to waste sulfuric acid to make this stuff.

  • if you have sulfuric acid, why you need hydrochloric? 0.o

  • @officialdemo thats like saying why do you need apples when you have oranges.

  • @cnidoblast well seeing as sulfuric acid is more badass, why would you want hydrochloric

  • @officialdemo if you're just looking for a badass acid that'll eat through anything then I suppose H2SO4 would be a better choice than HCl. H2SO4 in itself isn't that badass though. Add some concentrated H2O2 and you've got pirhana solution. Aqua regia is more badass than H2SO4 since it can dissolve noble metals. Wanna see a real badass acid look up HF on youtube. Theres more to acids than just protonation.

  • I still don't understand why people use acid to make acid. I get it from a laboratory standpoint, like if you don't have one acid on hand and you need another one, but people would love to see a way to make good acid with available materials.

  • @Flumphinator Well in this case it would be useful to make HCl (which is a gas) to bubble through something.  For example I want to protonate an amine. However, a protonated amine is water soluble so concentrated HCl (liquid) wouldn't really work. But if you bubble HCl gas through the amine in diethyl ether it would just precipitate out and bingo you have your product.

  • well, someone listened during their chem class

  • I do chemistry experiments at home. Chemistry experiments at home does not mean "meth lab." 

  • @gps93 society is just incredibly ignorant they see a chemical reaction and immediately think METH LAB because all they know about chemistry is drugs. Same goes for everything with any depth in life. They simply see one incredibly stupid use out of something incredibly useful, and they immediately assume its always used for their dumb use.

  • @fwesh1 Pretty sure it was a joke...

  • @Necron3211 i realize that but its still the same

  • @fwesh1 Either "drugs" or "terrorists". I have to admit, I thought exactly that. That just goes to show you how much junk is on TV these days.

  • @fwesh1 thank you

  • @fwesh1 METH LABS ARE KASUAL MY BUDDY OWNS ONE

  • @fwesh1 yeah I mean these videos are useful for chemists working in labs...

  • lol ammonium hydroxide has a dick killing smell dude lol

  • @fwesh1 You would not believe how many times I've been asked if I'm studying chemistry for the sake of making drugs, less common is the assumption that you're going to make explosives. The ignorant are always so blind to the fact that there are people out there who like to learn for leisure.

  • where did you get that chemistry set?

  • Now how do I make sulfuric acid?

  • cool