Metals+Hydrochloric acid

how different metals behave when thrown into concentrated hydrochloric acid.
Inspired by a chemistry class experiment.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• metal
• metall
• hcl
• chlor
• wasserstoff
• chlorine
• hydrogen
• chloride
• hydrochloric
• muriatic
• acid
• salz
• säure
• salzsäure
• kupfer
• copper
• aluminium
• zink
• zinc
• vanadium
• cadmium
• lithium
• water
• steam
• smoke
• fire
• feuer
• dampf
• rauch

[Ecdub984]

if i used sodium with some HCl do u think i would be able to use the salt for like eating? i mean sodium chloride is normal salt, right?

[sciencoking]

@Ecdub984 Yes, and in fact I have even done that myself with concentrated hydrochloric acid and sodium hydroxide beads. i was even going to put it on youtube, but the footage was shit. It took me more than an hour to get the pH right. You have to be incredibly careful, but it works just fine.

[RidzRSBuddy]

Why would you put your physics homework on the table when doing chemistry?

[sciencoking]

@RidzRSBuddy I don't know - I was too lazy to put it away, I guess.

[utube8353]

How concentrated is the HCl?

[sciencoking]

@utube8353 11 moles/l or 34%

[sciencoking]

@BabiiuaGalaao582 wHaT tHe fUcK aM i sUpPoSeD tO dO aBoUt tHaT ?!

[gogo311]

You were holding Lithium with your bare hands!

[aidandavitt]

is hydrogen gas the technical word for bubbles?

[BuschTukkerMan]

You can also marinate a steak in it ahha:)

[bulletshotfromgun]

Sci-fi question so the Xenomorphs(or Alien from the movie Alien) this Acid is the same as their blood?

[tifialf]

@GerryRich100 You could add this coloured reaction in your video slowing down your filming rate. If you add your pale yellowish solution in water you get a green colour and then a blue color, depending on how many chloride ions have been substituted by water molecules in the complex. Adding ammonia to it, you'll get a turquoise precipitate and then, with an excess of ammonia, a beautiful deep blue solution.

[tifialf]

@GerryRich100 Copeprt can be definetrly more interesting. If you leave copper in HCl for one hour or more you would see that the solution turns pale yellow, as in the latter video before reacting with Lithium. The reaction of copper with HCl can be sped up saturating conc. HCl with sodium chloride. The yellow-green color is explained by complex ions as [CuCl4]2-. In the same way copper could react very slowly also in salt vinegar.

[mrgerminaro]

i been learnin about science and chemistry is what im thinkin of next even tho i already graduated that hydrocloric acid just tore threw that lithium lol

[Starcraft88888]

No hood and no gloves? I hereby revoke your license to do chemistry.

[poofnsauce]

@Chemkid77 yep that's one of the reason it's used so much in electronics (even though silver, and other metals are more conductive) it's the hardest to tarnish for the price.