Iodine Clock Reaction

In the "take 2" of the iodine clock reaction, we've discovered that we can evaporate the iodine product, giving us pure elemental iodine. However, a dessicator bag is very inefficient, so we were wondering if our viewers had any ideas.

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• clock
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• vitamin
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• evaporate
• elemental

[viclorwow]

there are much easier ways to get iodine ( KI with HCL and H2O2 ), and the iodine you obtain from this method will most likely have impurities in it

[dbc616]

@viclorwow yeah definately, but we wanted to show that the clock reaction actually produces iodine

[1998anirudh]

witch craft ! burn his at stake

(kidding ofcorse)

[brisingrtwilighter]

peroxodisulphate ions

[chongjh123]

Wow! Very clear explanations!

[schnepman1993]

cool buffer

[Chaoschemiker]

Solve the Iodine from the aqueous solution by shaking the iodine containing liquid with Dichloromethan/Chloroform/Tetr­achloromethane/Diethylether.

The solvents should change their colours from colourless to a nice dark red.

[mrericsully]

I am glad to see you posting again and still doing good science.

I have to agree with the other comments though that although this reaction does produce iodine isolating it might prove to be difficult, good luck though.

[SierraAlphaSierra]

Get a solution of potassium iodide and add hydrogen peroxide to it, then add concentrated HCl to it to create a suspension of I2. Then filter the I2, then purify it by vaporization re-crystallization