Make Europium and Dysprosium Nitrate salts.

In this video we make europium and dysprosium nitrate salts we'll need in upcoming videos.

Instead of buying the salts directly from our chemical supply companies we decided to make them entirely using chemicals anyone can buy online or make themselves. In this case europium metal and dysprosium metal with nitric acid.

The europium and dysprosium metal were purchased online from: http://elementsales.com/

The nitric acid was produced in our nitric acid video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yE7v4wkuZU

The procedures for both salts is rather simple.

First, obtain 2.5 grams of europium. Europium comes in mineral oil so it must be washed off with toluene. Then the europium is placed in a beaker where a total of 10 mL of water is added in small portions. This is added before the acid for safety reasons. After all the water is added and the reaction seems to have slowed down 10mL of concentrated 15.6 molar nitric acid is added.

The solution is then heated to ensure complete reaction of all the metal bits.

For dysprosium:

5g of dysprosium can be directly added to a mixture of 20mL of water and 20mL Nitric acid. Once again, heating the solution ensures complete reaction.

Both nitrates are allowed to dry in the desiccator bag we made last week: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJFfS_YbbYI

Afterward, the nitrates are transferred to vials for storage and labeled.

The europium salt produced will be Europium Nitrate pentahydrate
The dysprosium salt produced will be dysprosium nitrate pentahydrate.

We're going to use these nitrates for some cool upcoming videos so please subscribe rate and comment!

Note: before you ask, no they are not good for any pyrotechnic.

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[toix48]

when you said to lable the products carfully you alos said i had to learn it the hard way what was the hard way

[NurdRage]

I mislabeled a $1000 chemical and it got tossed out with the trash.

[pwn0grapher]

Hey Nurd Rage your videos are awesome but can you tell me how to purify the nitric acid to exactly 15.6 moles? You said in the other video that you can't predict the exact molarity, so are there certain procedures I can follow to ensure the required molarity? Thanks.

[NurdRage]

15.6 molar is the concentration of the nitric acid and water azeotropic you obtain from fractional distillation.

so if you purify your acid by fractional distillation then it will automatically be 15.6 molar.

[LegallyMoi]

Could you do a video telling us why pottasium and sodium explode in water?

[NurdRage]

@legallymoi

also already lots of video that.

[LinkyZ]

Hello Nurdrage,

My disprosium and europium nitrate are drying in the famous dessicater bag.

I'm really impatient to see your next experiments.

Thanks alot for your nice work and all the time you spend trying to release the knowledge for chemistry nerds.

[getdown1983]

(g/mol=(relativadditionmassoft­heformel)*10^(-)36

Need good calculator or programm for.

[jakeycool8899]

IT'S REACTING WITH THE AIR!!!

[KewneRain]

One thing I tend to notice, aside from the the obvious reactions, is the optical qualities of liquids. Things made from metals dissolved by nitric acid seem to have a reflective quality to them when they're in glass containers. Is there any special reason for this?

[GTHaroFITBMX]

@NurdRage o dang!

[Blinkwing]

@NurdRage which chemical was it?

[k0namiman]

@shawnio Yes, science and chemistry is NOT the purview of good, ignorant 'murricans, sicence and chemistry is for TERRORISTS. The only use the average non-military, non 1% man on the street would have for expanding their horizons is TERRORISM.

Now, don't wet your bed too fast... But they are teaching things like this IN OUR SCHOOLS!

TERRORISM!

[dmn513c]

@NurdRage i figured you almost blew your self up.. lol

[killbilly701]

im gonna use this stuff to put in my hampesters feed so i can make my hampster take shits the sise of a dumpster on my grandmas ass drip of sweat cock

[guhanable]

@shawnio LOL! hez the leader!