ReaktionChamber - 7-3-2018 at 05:48
So, while experimenting with zirconium oxynitrate ZrO(NO3)2 solution, I thought it would be possible to get electrochemically zirconium by dumping
some magnesium in. The magnesium began to produce some sort of gas (hydrogen?) and soon some thick white gel has formed. The magnesium was consumed.
What could this compund be ? Maybe a complex ?
Ubya - 7-3-2018 at 06:08
recently i made some magnesium sulphate with magnesium pencil sharpeners and sulphuric acid drain cleaner. i wanted the acid to react completely so i
added lots of magnesium powder (to speed up the reaction), i saw lots of fizzing so i tought it was reacting with the acid, but at the end the
solution was jelly and impossible to filter. the magnesium fully reacted with any remaining acid and then started reacting with water to form hydrogen
gas and magnesium hydroxide. probaably you made magnesium hydroxide in colloid form
ReaktionChamber - 7-3-2018 at 11:17
pH is around 7
Edit: okay ur probably right, the original solution has pH of about 3 so ...
[Edited on 7-3-2018 by ReaktionChamber]
unionised - 7-3-2018 at 13:10
You probably made a zirconium hydroxide colloid, rather than a magnesium hydroxide one.