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Yep, it's the famous silver tree. They're crystals. At the beginning they are needle shaped cristals up to 5 mm long, and as the reaction goes on,
branches of very small crystals form on the first crystals, so thin that light is absorbed or trapped in there so that's why the silver look so dark.
The dark very small crystals look like a powder tho. It is very fragile, actually it really looks like a tree, when you shake it a bit all the
"branches" move. If you shake it hard, it all falls.
In fact, if you shake it hard, it falls just like that :
 
Edit : put back the original photo for easier comparison
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It really is stunning. I guess you could compare the growth the a fractile.
To me, this is the coolest thread on the forum. It's inspiring.
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Quote: Originally posted by Zombie  | It really is stunning. I guess you could compare the growth the a fractile.
To me, this is the coolest thread on the forum. It's inspiring. |
I agree! I love all of the crystalline products here. By the way, nice title ("Forum Hillbilly") 
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| Quote: Originally posted by Zombie | It really is stunning. I guess you could compare the growth the a fractile.
To me, this is the coolest thread on the forum. It's inspiring. |
I see my use of a made up, quasi English language confirms the "Forum HillBilly" title.
Soooo embarrassing... 
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For the first time in months I had a little free time, so I decided to extract cinnamaldehyde. Here are a few photos ; it has a red color under bright
light, a brown color under weak light, and a yellow color diluted in a little bit of ether. I got that ether (last photo) by condensation of ethanol
in conc. sulfuric acid at 145°C. That was clearly one of the most frightening reaction I have done :p
 
 
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Very beautiful! I agree, distilling diethyl ether can be a bit nerve racking with its low auto ignition temp. Thanks for sharing.
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alexleyenda ,
Can you explain how that last reaction photo happened?
Was that all from a leaking join in the glassware?
Is it some sort of foam or crystalline?
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| Quote: Originally posted by Zombie | alexleyenda ,
Can you explain how that last reaction photo happened?
Was that all from a leaking join in the glassware?
Is it some sort of foam or crystalline? |
It's a very rare thing called snow which you, being a lucky bastard in Florida,
would know nothing of right now unlike those of us who are up north. It reduces
the evaporation of the ether product.
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| Quote: Originally posted by Zombie | alexleyenda ,
Can you explain how that last reaction photo happened?
Was that all from a leaking join in the glassware?
Is it some sort of foam or crystalline? |
Lol. It's pretty contagious too as we just received over a foot and should be getting more on Thursday. The East Coast is getting buried.
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| Quote: Originally posted by gdflp | | Quote: Originally posted by Zombie | alexleyenda ,
Can you explain how that last reaction photo happened?
Was that all from a leaking join in the glassware?
Is it some sort of foam or crystalline? |
It's a very rare thing called snow which you, being a lucky bastard in Florida,
would know nothing of right now unlike those of us who are up north. It reduces
the evaporation of the ether product. |
That would be a right answer hahaha. There was snow all round me so it was easier to take that than prepare an ice bath. Anyway the ice bath would
have become a real 100% ice bath if I had used that. I'm from Québec, Canada before you ask :p
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Not really sure what this is, I guess it is some form of
K6[Co2(CN)10]. If you treat Cobalt(II)-Solutions with a low amount of Cyanide you'll get Co(II)cyanide, analogous to
Nickel. If you continue to add more Cyanide the quite muddy looking thick brown cyanide goes into a green
[Co(CN)5H2O]3-. This compound is sensitive to oxygen, so you'll have to work in oxygen-free water and under inert
gas. I did it with regular destilled water and without any inert gas so the green complex wouldn't even build up and directly went into it's oxidized
from which is a reddish solution. I am not sure what the composition of that exactly is. But if you manage to get the green complex and add enough
Ethanol purple crystalls of K6[Co2(CN)10] should fall out. I did it with the red solution and the same happened. But
since most cyanides and cyano-compounds of heavy metals are insoluble in Ethanol this could be any other Co-Cyano-Salt.
The color still fits and perhaps the reddish color of the solution came from rests of Co(II)cyanide, could be. There is a Co(III)cyanide but that one
is blue, so this shouldn't be it, still this stuff reacts with water to a reddish Hydrate. Since the color of the crystals fit I'd rather go with
K6[Co2(CN)10]. It's hard to see but that stuff is actually the Cobalt Version von Potassium Ferrocyanide. You could
write it like that but data on the complex showed that it's rather written down as mentioned above.
Still quite interesting, the chemistry of Cobalt-Cyano-Complexes. Stay up for more in summer. I'm currently planing a whole bunch of d-Metal
complexes. Just went through a dozen of literature and still not finished yet. Till now it looks preatty cool and I'll try to make most of these
forgotten compounds, soon. The one mentioned here is an example from the cobalt section but there are far better ones.
So I hope you like it  .
EDIT:
So I isolated the brown-purple stuff and dissolved it in some water again and got a perfect yellow solution. That color is quite typical for the
Hexacyanocobaltate(III). That stuff is like the Iron version quite unreactive and should -according to literature - not react with Peroxide in any
way. I tried it and nothing happened. Co(II) and Cyanide can be boiled with oxygen for some time to get that stuff but it's quite cold in my lab and
that stuff still build up. So I'm not sure what the intermediate produrct was, there are some complexes mentioned with 5 cyano ligands and one other
like water or OH- depending on ration and amount of air. Could be one of them and this was oxidized while shaking it in the testtube with air to the
yellow Cobaltate(III). There is quite some stuff you can try out here especially when you work under argon.
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| Quote: Originally posted by gdflp | | Quote: Originally posted by Zombie | alexleyenda ,
Can you explain how that last reaction photo happened?
Was that all from a leaking join in the glassware?
Is it some sort of foam or crystalline? |
It's a very rare thing called snow which you, being a lucky bastard in Florida,
would know nothing of right now unlike those of us who are up north. It reduces
the evaporation of the ether product. |
Oh yes. I have heard of this "snow".
Much like Mr. blogfast, and the mythical "thumper" i did not believe such a thing really existed.
Now I really feel stupid~~~~~
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S=N-O-W
Tungsten (I) thionitrite
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one nothing, plus one nothing, always equals two nothings, no matter what anyone says.
Sorry.
Infinite mass or perfect vacuum... take your pick.
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Infinite mass We've been getting a lot of snow in the mid-west of Ohio.
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I just received a piece of Bismuth, nothing special but I always loved the look of shiny metallic shards of bismuth.
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Me too! Keep an eye on that piece - freshly broken, it's nice and silvery. But over time it oxidizes very slowly, and develops a yellow tinge.
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Nice picture! I was looking at SM today, and someone was looking over my shoulder; got a nice 'silver tree' discussion started with them because of
this page.
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I prefer the cristalline Bismuth with fractalo-cubic-Maya-temple shape and petroleum iridescent colour
Bsimuth cristals images
I own quite a lot from mineral Bourses/Fairs/Saloon at relatively cheap prices.
Also from such places cristaline Silicium, cristaline Carborundum (SiC) and Quartz Gold Aqua (transparent colorless Quartz that turns pale blue owing
to gold atoms inserted into cristal latice by special rays), Quartz Titanium (the same but with Titanium...display metallic look with petrol
iridescence),...
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I love the way crystals is spelled in your link
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Mercury (I) Bromide
Just made this mercury (I) bromide. Fluoresces salmon color under UV light.
 
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That's unique! I just made some copper(I) ferricyanide (Or ferrocyanide, I'm not entirely sure that the ferricyanide didn't get reduced...
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That sounds like dangerous stuff, but I like the colors :p
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Mg+NaCl thermite
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Winner of the conflagrations competition (and about ten bucks) except that you didn't enter.
Nice photo. Well done.
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