how to make iron oxide (rust)

This is an experiment I found on my own. I encourage you to try it. It works. Feel free to use it as a school project or whatever.

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[MrAde9999]

if i use copper will i get CuO or Cu2O or will i get copper sulfate? beacus of the salt?

[zanychimp]

@MrAde9999 dude i have no idea >_<

[MrAde9999]

does this work with copper?

[zanychimp]

@MrAde9999 Indeed, it makes this weird yellow stuff that slowly turns blue.

[4395tjh]

could someone tell me if you could make thermite with this type of iron oxide?

[zanychimp]

@4395tjh there are plenty of other videos which explain that. Just search for "thermite," you're gonna get something.

[nickoolay]

NO iron oxide is produced all is FeCl3 when NaCl is electrolyzed in water it produced sodium hyfroxide hydrogen and chlorine which reacts to iron forming iron chloride(III)

[primejohnny]

You know, I thank you can use iron fileings from the car garage . When you get your break drums tuned down you will have the iron you need .Can you spray water on them and let them set a few days while stiring them from time to time. Then you will have Iron Oxide.

[hamsterboy13]

@MrAde9999 haha, yes that is very possible too and would explain the hygroscopicity

[MrAde9999]

@hamsterboy13 oo cuz i just found out that tis process makes CuO(OH)

same for Fe2O3(Oh)

[hamsterboy13]

@MrAde9999 just ask at the counter :), if you buy CuO there and they ask you why you need it, you just say that this is one of the cheapest pigments that won't react violently with you paint-solvent (if they ask you what kind of solvent it is just make something up or say 'I don't know, I am only buying it for my uncle' :P it's what i do when i buy chem's and they being annoying, they usually immediatly start to ask how you need xD

[MrAde9999]

@hamsterboy13 i mean in any sotres like painting stores

[hamsterboy13]

@MrAde9999 you want to buy it? likurg (dot) pl is a polish website where they sell a lot of chem's they ship all across europe. I live in holland and ones bought some aluminium powder and what not. Al prices are in the polish currency: CuO = 60 pln per kilo (they sell starting at 250 grams wich has an other price too) and that is about 15 euro's i think. else check ebay and what not, you can also usually buy (sometimes special order) it from pigment(paint) and chemical retailers :) any other Qs?

[MrAde9999]

@hamsterboy13

pryo for copper thermite.

but do u know what organic dye is and how u can get it?

[hamsterboy13]

@MrAde9999 do you need it as a pigment for paint? or for pyrotechnics?

[hamsterboy13]

@MrAde9999 the blue colour is because it has formed a cupric salt in some way, which also explains why it was hygroscopic (causing it to suck water into itself). this salt is what i think sodium chlorate (NaClO3) which is a really powerfull oxidizing agent and it is also hygroscopic.

my guess is that you have not only made CuO but also NaClO3 and cupric salts.

any other questions? :)

p.s. this is a better way to make CuO /watch?v=hZX3aA3hT4c

for what purpose do you actually need CuO?