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Potassium metal from K2CO3 + charcoal

metalresearcher - 9-10-2016 at 07:28

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crtDLgAn8CA

I repeated an experiment done years ago, but now used a stainless steel vessel.
Still unable to capture the K vapors (this requires Ar gas as answers to earlier topics on the same subject by me), but I noted now that the SS vessel just melted on the burner side. The inside of the furnace was 1470 C so the burner side even hotter.
Now I want to find out how to capture the metal. As Nighthawkinlight shows :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oF5bABrTsQ

he has the same problem capturing the Na / K metals.





[Edited on 2016-10-9 by metalresearcher]