ReaktionChamber
Harmless
Posts: 9
Registered: 6-12-2017
Member Is Offline
Mood: No Mood
|
|
Zirconium gel?
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
International Hazard
Posts: 1232
Registered: 23-11-2017
Location: Rome-Italy
Member Is Offline
Mood: I'm a maddo scientisto!!!
|
|
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
---------------------------------------------------------------------
feel free to correct my grammar, or any mistakes i make
---------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
ReaktionChamber
Harmless
Posts: 9
Registered: 6-12-2017
Member Is Offline
Mood: No Mood
|
|
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
International Hazard
Posts: 5102
Registered: 1-11-2003
Location: UK
Member Is Offline
Mood: No Mood
|
|
You probably made a zirconium hydroxide colloid, rather than a magnesium hydroxide one.
|
|
|
![[*]](images/xpblue/default_icon.gif){kind=icon}
