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tdjolliff

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ok perhaps this is the wrong place for this but im looking for the easiest way to make pure iron oxide

my sister wants some fore some pottery pigment thingummy and id like some to experiment with for fireworks and ferrofluid and a few other things

anyway im looking for the proper way to do it so it comes out pure if anyone can help me you can get me at tdjolliff@hotmail.com or @gmail.com

if this was the wrong place sorry and please suggest somewhere better
 
welcome to Blade forums :thumbup: This is absolutely the right place to post the question. If you "have to" make it there are a couple of retired chemists that frequent the forum. If you are game to purchase it check out this place http://www.unitednuclear.com/chem.htm They have all kinds of neat things to play with :D ;)

Just a quick tip about navigating bladeforums. You will get a much better response from others here if you put some info in your profile. A first name is nice too. Nothing at all in your profile is a pet peve of many, me included :) and will quite often hinder a response.
 
I second the suggestion of united nuclear...they have WAAAAY too many cool things there.

-d
 
Making pure Iron Oxide won't be easy or necessarily cheap with a home setup. You can buy it easily and cheaply. You can also find "Red Iron Oxide" as a polishing powder through many places (maybe ebay?). It might be listed as rouge.
Stacy
 
You can buy iron oxide (Fe2O3) from chemistry supply houses pretty cheap in bulk.
 
i luved the link and will soon visit it again for some odds and ends but yea i did kinda wanna make it at home (i like making my own stuff) and once i know how its done professionally who knows maybe ill win the lottery or something
 
Not to hijack this thread but did anyone ever notice that they sell Uranium...wtfo?? :confused:
Caution: Use normal safety precautions (wear a filter mask/respirator and gloves) when working with Uranium metal. Accidental inhalation or ingestion of Uranium particles can be dangerous. Grinding or filing will produce small particles that ignite on contact with air producing radioactive smoke. Finely divided Uranium particles can ignite spontaneously.
Note: adult signature required upon delivery.
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"Not to hijack this thread but did anyone ever notice that they sell Uranium...wtfo?? "


Hehe... I've got some Uranium ore at the house. Picked it up at an old ranch northwest of Amarillo. Some old volcanic upwelling. Anyway, it's an ore just like iron or mercury, and in some places, you can pick it up right off the ground (like I did). There are areas on that place where you shouldn't stay for more than 10-15 minutes becuase of radiation, but those are isolated.

It has to be purified and concentrated to be of any use, and that's where the real difficulty and technology comes in.

--nathan
 
J.Marsillo said:
Not to hijack this thread but did anyone ever notice that they sell Uranium...wtfo?? :confused:
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its ok your not kijacking the thread exactly i just posted because i wanted to find out nifty stuff that could be done with chemicals and anything elseon the subject that might be interesting

for example its possable to make the chemical timer for thermite out of stuff just lying arround your house now im a bit parinoid so i wont explain how its done because you can also make thermite with stuff just lying arround your house and while i might be a fire bug i dont wanna give the mad bomber types out there any ideas but thats the kinda thing im talking about

anything that has to do with practical aplications of chemistry that might be interesting

well im done with the longwinded speech now and have mad scientist things to get back to so you bunch have fun
 
Thermite is simple to make, and unlike a lot of other combustible compounds is extremely stable. All you need is some nails and aluminum siding.
 
When I want as close to pure iron oxide as I can get, I put a wad of 0000steel wool in a bowl with a little water. In a couple of days you can crumble the whole wad into pile of red powder. I have also seen methods of controled burning of the steel wool to accelerate the process
 
tdjolliff said:
so i wont explain how its done because you can also make thermite with stuff just lying arround your house and while i might be a fire bug i dont wanna give the mad bomber types out there any ideas
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To late I have links to a couple sites that give the formulas to make a variety of thermite and explosive compound. Nitroglycerin, RDX(Cyclonite) and fusing systems. The thing about this kind of stuff is that the componets are mostly easy to come by because they are so common. The knowledge is in the hands of the public and can never be put back "in the bottle" Even if the US tried to censor this information the internet makes it impossible to curtail the access of such.

PS I have tried a few of them with good clear instructions and they do work well.
 
making a fire in the middle of the woods in an emergency is one thing :thumbup: Things that go BOOM !! ? I'll leave that to the experts. Most of the formula's I've found don't include or explain the proper techniques for working with stuff like that . Not being a scientist or chemist that info is just enough to blow myself up, IMHO ;)
 
If you want to rust your steel wool quicker it helps to get it clean. Wash it thoroughly with dish washing detergent and hot water first. Then leave it in water in a warm place to rust.
 
But making things go boom is fun :D My grandpa was a demolitions expert in Vietnam, we've cooked up some plastic explosive before to blow out black locust stumps. It's a whole lot more fun than digging them out by hand.
 
Kevin R. Cashen said:
When I want as close to pure iron oxide as I can get, I put a wad of 0000steel wool in a bowl with a little water. In a couple of days you can crumble the whole wad into pile of red powder. I have also seen methods of controled burning of the steel wool to accelerate the process
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Hi Kevin,
I chuckled about the controlled burning part. We have all set the stuff on fire with grinder sparks or the like. 4-0 catches fire real easy. Instant iron oxide.
Not recommended in some areas of the shop.



Fred
 
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