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Lead Nitrate and Potassium Iodide

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Uploaded by on Mar 20, 2007

DO NOT ATTEMPT THIS DEMONSTRATION AT HOME.

Transparent (and mostly colorless) solutions of lead nitrate and potassium iodide are mixed to produce the bright yellow precipitate lead iodide and aqueous potassium nitrate.

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  • did that in class yesterday...pretty kool

  • now heat it up and let it cool down slowly so you get large hexagonal flakes

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  • Remarkable is that neither of the ions is colored, but somehow the precipitate is (due to iodoplumbate-complex formation).

    It is very neat to expand your experiment by heating this precipitate and letting it cool again.

    The solubility of lead(II)iodide in cold water is very low, but the solubity of the stuff in hot water is very much greater.

    Letting the solution cool down again will yield golden crystals suspending from the faint yellow solution.

  • We did that at school today. It's simple and fun.

  • a nice precipitate of lead iodide there.

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