How to make sulfuric acid from sulfur

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How to make sulfuric acid from sulfur

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The Science Furry

Күн бұрын

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@petevenuti7355 Жыл бұрын

I tried doing that with a pound of sulfur in my basement when I was 10 years old and a really janky apparatus that fell apart and all the sulfur caught fire. I barely made it up the steps and out alive. My parents had to leave the house for a week for it to vent. When they came back I was in even more serious trouble because all the silver in the house was tarnished and pitted.

@thesciencefurry Жыл бұрын

Oh wow. But great story xD

@petevenuti7355 Жыл бұрын

@@thesciencefurryI've told that story a few times, I'm surprised "that chemist" didn't include that story in one of his chempilations.

@bobbimega Жыл бұрын

Why are you cooking sulfuric acid at 10 year old

@petevenuti7355 Жыл бұрын

@@bobbimega no one would let me have the concentrated stuff to make a nitration bath.... I had no intention of letting anyone know I was making nitroglycerin. I learned early that it wasn't a good idea . Same year I washed a few ounces of NI3 down the drain because crystals were popping as it was drying and I panicked. Kept a lot of people up that night with "water hammer" from the sewer. ...Dumb .... I thought I was smart enough not to tell my peers anything I figured out, yet only a few years later *they* were showing *me* how to make various peroxides 🤪👷🤯 Amazing my generation managed to live long enough to grow up ..

@petevenuti7355 Жыл бұрын

@@bobbimega this was back in the 70's btw...

@1smhs 9 ай бұрын

Warning: my wife is a scientist and has permanent eye damage from putting acid in a microwave… she was following a protocol straight out of grad school… the acid fumes coming out of the microwave reacted with her eyes. Loose fitting safety goggles will not prevent this. Exercise caution. Fume hood of some kind is recommended

@squishybrick Жыл бұрын

I'm making a chemistry mod in minecraft, and sulfuric acid seems to be an important ingredient in many industrial chemical processes, so I needed to learn how to make the stuff and then translate that knowledge into in-game. So.. Basically.. When translated in-game, it goes.. 1. Burn sulfur in special custom-made machine that uses the process of burning something and capturing/dissolving the gasses, to capture/create sulfur dioxide. 2. Using a second machine that lets you dissolve gasses into a liquid via exothermic process, you put SO2 in slot one, and water into slot two, which converts the water into sulfurous acid. 3. Then, sticking the sulfurous acid in a furnace, it is cooked (boiled) into sulfuric acid. I'm sure this process is heavily boiled down (pun intended) from the real thing, but this is simply a translation of it into the game in a way that I can actually mod in.

@ouepillthegoat Жыл бұрын

you could probably shorten the process by just mixing so2 and h2o2 in step 2, so that it could immediately turn into h2so4

@squishybrick Жыл бұрын

@@ouepillthegoat I'd have to figure out how to make h2o2 (in minecraft) first.

@martbarnav1787 Жыл бұрын

Holy... I am literally doing the exact same thing. When i read your comment initially i thought maybe i wrote it but forgot about it because it seemed so similar until i read your username. It's crazy! Do you have any links for your mod? I would love to try it out if it's finished. I'm also making a chemistry mod, i'm trying to get things to be as realistic as possible, i've added certain new ores like sulfur ore which can be mined near lava pools, and vanadinite ore which can be mined to obtain vanadium pentoxide which is a catalyst for making sulfuric acid through the contact process. It was crazy reading your comment seeing we both are making such similar things. Good luck with your mod man.

@clarakhong1148 Жыл бұрын

my fbi agent won't know that a game mod is exactly why I'm watching this video and not to melt a corpse... sorry to disappoint you, fbi agent.

@falsedragon33 11 ай бұрын

I'm stealing your excuse. Brilliant.

@VerbenaIDK 2 жыл бұрын

1: test tube pobably inst optimal, a steel kinda burner would be better, a steel tube with another steel tube inside with holes toward the bottom so you can melt the sulfur and blow air throigh the surface then the sulfur dioxide would be carried with the air, but if you dont like sulfur in your acid, you will need to remove sulfur particles from the sulfur dioxide and then there's two methods you can go, first, oxidize to SO3, but the catalyst is very hard to find and expensive so nope or oxidize the H2SO3 to H2SO4 by bubbling the SO2 into 35% hydrogen peroxide, then boilling to concentrate and try to destroy peroxide

@fajile5109 2 ай бұрын

I read you can finish the reaction by pumping ozone into the water instead. One paper included a UV light as well.

@sirlinkthefourth6755 11 ай бұрын

Idk why but I laughed my ass off when you said "so I just put it in the microwave"

@Aussie-Phill 8 ай бұрын

Me too

@Shywolf2 Жыл бұрын

So I’m the idiot that burned it in open air, then breathed in an unsafe amount of the gas, and also tried dissolving the burned/melted sulfur in Hydrogen Peroxide. And if you are wondering, the gas smells like sulfur but 100X stronger, even with allergies you can still smell it.

@nothink0945 Жыл бұрын

Thanks man I have been researching sulphur and sulphuric acid for a while and you showed me just what I wanted to see.Great tutorial keep it up man👏

@slyfoxchemistry 4 ай бұрын

Hi amazing video how are you doing your work is super amazing

@user-ro2wg4rp7b 3 ай бұрын

I didn’t understand your video much, but you didn’t get sulfuric acid, but dissolve it, and then oxidize it to sulfuric acid, right?S+O2>SO2.SO2+H2O>H2SO3.H2SO3+H2O2>H2SO4+H2O. very simple

@Stickiestboi Ай бұрын

If you just have a lot of sulfur you can do a few things, like blackpowder, and uhhhh other pyrotechnics. You can also make sulfur chloride I suppose by melting it and bubbling chlorine into it.

@conceptofeverything8793 2 күн бұрын

May want to use an osonator to precondition the air you use for burning the sulphur.

@Stickiestboi Ай бұрын

Oh also powdered sulfur and zinc can be used as rocket fuel. If you do this be careful, from what I’ve heard it’s rather sensitive to static.

@charlie0008 2 жыл бұрын

Sulfuric acid is used for a lot more than I originally thought

@duncanfox7871 Жыл бұрын

IT works way better if you oxidize the SO2 all the way into SO3 with vanadium pentoxide then bubble through water and it take some it up instantly at near 100%. Of course then you need another reagent and also 600 degree SO3 lol

@ColaTai Ай бұрын

This is exactly what i wanted thank you

@katiefrisk980 5 ай бұрын

use the sulfur for gardening or gunpowder :p alternatively, make thioacetone

@The3rdPlateau 7 ай бұрын

What about, instead of using H2O2, pumping some pure oxygen gas (but not bubbling it) into the bottle until all the air is pushed out, closing the lid of the bottle tightly, and shaking it?

@MadScientist267 3 ай бұрын

The oxygen needs to be in radical form since there is nothing present to break an O2 bond. Ozone can do this, as well as peroxide. They both want to give up that single "extra" oxygen atom, at which point the H2SO3 will happily take it (being both SO2 and H2SO3 are both reductants).

@swinka-zielona 2 ай бұрын

You could take an air pump and attach the suction tube to the sulfur lumps burning in the air. The pump would suck in the sulfur flame and sulfur dioxide would flow through the hose

@MatthewBendyna Жыл бұрын

One thing you could do with the sulfur for fun is mix it with zinc powder to make rocket fuel for model rockets.

@davidbolha 2 жыл бұрын

Very nice presentation ! 🤔😏👌🖒

@laurdy Жыл бұрын

Why not dissolve the SO2 directly in the H2O2 ?

@thesciencefurry Жыл бұрын

Yeah that's possible. Back then I didn't want to do that because I thought it'll make pirana solution. But I'm pretty sure now that this needs more concentrated peroxide.

@cristianpopescu78 Жыл бұрын

Interrestig! German chemistry is much better regarding available information.I have downloaded the whole chemistry of explosives theory. Just in case. 👍

@Faasquit 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing tutorial thanks :)

@ConcretorumAzoth Жыл бұрын

Does anyone know if using ozone instead of oxygen/air works better?

@__8474 5 ай бұрын

If you have access to ozone you don’t need to burn the sulfur, you can oxidise the sulfur directly into sulfuric acid. There’s a science madness thread on the subject. Personally, this seems a lot more of a hassle than just using peroxide, or electrolysis of a sulfate, and ozone is incredibly dangerous.

@ConcretorumAzoth 5 ай бұрын

@@__8474 I would use sodium metabisulfate and HCl to generate sulfur dioxide and bubble it into a tall tube of water which has been bubbled for a few hours to build some Nitric oxides and acidify it keep bubbling and mix the two gases evaporate after the reaction is finished until white fumes form. I have some potent Ozone tubes in series they make plenty of Nitric acid as a by product when the air is moist.

@StoneWaterGlass 7 күн бұрын

You could mix hydrogen peroxide with ice and bubble the SO2 into this, it would be more efficient

@eworrall1 Ай бұрын

How about bubbling sulfur dioxide directly into hydrogen peroxide instead of water?

@thesciencefurry Ай бұрын

Weird, I thought I made a pinned comment about that. Anyway you need to consider that h2o2 and sulfuric acid makes piranha solution. So you need to be sure all the h2o2 is used up.

@digitalphear1960 17 күн бұрын

The peroxide is 11-22% without getting on some sort of list 😆 but the reason of the 89-77% is water contents.. soo that water contents shold disolve the SO2 whilst simultaneously oxidize the new formed H2SO2 directly into H2SO4.. "should"

@Linus-nq2op 2 жыл бұрын

Sulfur itself is not very irritating, you can eat it spoon wise.

@sethapex9670 Жыл бұрын

What concentration of H2O2 was used? Just consumer variety 3% or did you get your hands on something stronger?

@thesciencefurry Жыл бұрын

11,9 % That was the strongest I could get.

@pedestrianrights1257 2 жыл бұрын

Wow! And, where did you get the idea of using H202 to convert the sulfurous acid into sulfuric? Thank you.

@sdssdss4474 2 жыл бұрын

Hydrogenperoxide is a pretty good oxidizer especially for making sulfiric acid.When you oxidize sulfurous acid at the end you have water and sulfiric acid, but you can easily distill the water.

@geopolitikNEWSLCT 2 жыл бұрын

Cual sería el rendimiento teórico de 1 kilogramo de azufre y 4 litros de peroxido de hidrógeno al 50 %?

@kevinbyrne4538 8 ай бұрын

In the 1700s sulfuric acid was made by burning a mixture of sulfur and potassium nitrate in a lead box containing some water.

@sunumi 7 ай бұрын

awesoem !!!

@slqjeueuieqpiejdjsjs 2 жыл бұрын

I just love how sulfuric acid solution spins in the microwave.

@utahknifeworks5443 Жыл бұрын

You can have lots of fun making black powder with your leftover sulphur!

@dumbassdemonfoxmk2 Жыл бұрын

Thx for tutorial

@Obv1ously_snow Жыл бұрын

Make sulfur monocloride from sulfur plz

@vladyyukhimets5815 Жыл бұрын

Can you make it absolutely arsenic free or how close to it can you make???

@mtalhakhalid1679 2 жыл бұрын

Use ice bath to dissle more so2 so3 gas into water

@Thato3700 12 күн бұрын

Where can i get hydrogen peroxide?

@Kickrock2008 7 ай бұрын

Food for thought: sulfur produces more conductivity than that of red clay which is the highest conductivity of the soils. Note: sulfur and red clay mixture can be used as an earth battery in a 5 gallon bucket. Your conductivity will be higher than normal, and your ability to store the electricity is increased Now for the best possible electrolyte solution to make the mixture even more efficient. Im trying different electrolytes and graphene seems to be the best solution. 4:26 think outside the box and you will get answers like no other. 💯💯💯💯

@andraskis6890 Жыл бұрын

What was the concentration of the H2O2? And from where did you get i?

@yazanzo3bi610 6 ай бұрын

What is the ratio of water and sulfur?

@nikosdrakopoulos8034 Жыл бұрын

just found out about this chanel... a furry and science.... WHERE WAS THIS CHANEEL HIDING ALL THIS TIME...

@thesciencefurry Жыл бұрын

In plain sight 😄

@tamboong15 2 жыл бұрын

Hello sir, can you also tell us how long did you boil the sulfurous acid ?

@jadentonkin466 Жыл бұрын

boil it intill you see distinct white fumes then you will know the acid has just pasted 70%

@SashaXXY 11 ай бұрын

If peroxide can oxidize an oxide of sulfur, it sounds like it should just be able to oxidize raw sulfur. Why not try to just mix sulfur with peroxide?

@kallah4999 2 ай бұрын

You don't have any use for sulfuric acid? 🤔

@abdalrahman3766 8 ай бұрын

Can I apply 3 percent hydrogen peroxide? I hope for a quick response❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

@photonik-luminescence Жыл бұрын

I actually have a similar idea only that in my idea i bur the sulfur in oxygen rich air flow and bubble it like you.

@werrkowalski2985 Жыл бұрын

Then you will need a big oxygen cylinder.

@photonik-luminescence Жыл бұрын

@@werrkowalski2985 yeah, only that i don't plan this idea any time soon. It's just on my buket list for the future. Thanks for the advice tough

@werrkowalski2985 Жыл бұрын

@@photonik-luminescence It's not an advice, it's just a fact. Did you check how easy would it be for you to get oxygen? I wondered if maybe you have to set up a company to be able to order it.

@photonik-luminescence Жыл бұрын

@@werrkowalski2985 no, i was imagining a simple glas setup with a chemical source of oxygen like a reaction in a presssurisable water sprayer to form a small pressure. The Idea waa DIY but maybe i need some more industrial equipment

@werrkowalski2985 Жыл бұрын

@@photonik-luminescence You essentially would have to collect that oxygen in some container, you will just not create enough pressure, the reaction goes too slowly. In the end you would need to produce a lot of oxygen anyway, it's rather impractical. That being said I don't know how pressurizable water sprayer works, but there is just no way to continuously create enough oxygen without collecting it using just a chemical reaction in some container and a nozzle.

@Matetheemperorofhell 9 ай бұрын

Will the method with pumping oxygen into sulfurous acid work to make sulfuric acid? 2:42

@momcilomomcilovic558 2 жыл бұрын

Gunpowder make gunpowder

@schwoedie 5 ай бұрын

Questions: 1. Can one use hydrogen peroxide precise molar ratios to produce concentrated sulfuric acid? 2. How and why does the sulfur dioxide molecule bond with water molecule (and if the answer to my previous question is yes, why, with hydrogen peroxide) ?

@thesciencefurry 5 ай бұрын

Yes, you need the same molar ratios of the two. The sulfur dioxide bonds with the water to form sulfurous acid wich is H2SO3 wich is a weak acid, so we react that with the peroxide so we get H2SO4, the sulfuric acid.

@schwoedie 5 ай бұрын

@thesciencefurry I see. Also, are the following set of reactions possible? 1/8(S8) + (O2) -> S02 SO2 + H2O2 -> H2SO4 (concentrated sulfuric acid) edit: concentrated hydrogen sulphate

@thesciencefurry 5 ай бұрын

@@schwoedie idk if the last one really is possible because H2O2 is always in a water solution. I guess what you're implying here is that you want to direct the SO2 directly into your peroxide. In theory his works, but you need to be aware that any excess of peroxide makes piranha solution which is very agressive and unstable. I'm not sure if you can just keep adding SO2 to the solution until you have sulfuric acid again. (But I might have done that in the video?, I have to rewatch this)

@schwoedie 5 ай бұрын

@@thesciencefurry Thanks!

@MadScientist267 3 ай бұрын

@@thesciencefurryThis cannot be understated. I am not surprised to see you mention this because I thought it amusing that in effect, to make the acid this way, one must create piranha in situ. At first this won't be much of an issue but as the acid concentration builds, things will change and indeed there won't just be sulfuric and sulfurous in peroxide but a whole different animal that doesn't play around. Personally I'd take the ozone approach, for a few reasons, but the piranha factor being one of them (another being the severe dilution factor as noted in your video).

@jaydenritchie1992 Жыл бұрын

Is it possible to burn/combust the sulphur mix with a perchlorate for the extra oxygen molecule?

@jadentonkin466 Жыл бұрын

why would you do that it will probarly crack the apparatus if you're using glass and it will release an uncontrollable amount Of sulfur dioxide into the water so a lot will get wasted

@FurryAnimator Жыл бұрын

you are the best

@thesciencefurry Жыл бұрын

UwU

@FurryAnimator Жыл бұрын

@@thesciencefurry :3

@JoseJose-ke3rd 11 ай бұрын

You can make black powder with sulfur

@sniperfuazo6495 11 ай бұрын

Now make it with ehanol to make ethylene and mix ethylene and oxygen to make poly ethylene Now that is one step to high voltage age

@seethakodagoda3775 Жыл бұрын

Is it working ?

@frostedlambs 2 жыл бұрын

Use the rest of the sulphur to make black powder

@kAY-yl5en 2 жыл бұрын

Yes.

@vulpera1150 7 ай бұрын

Gunpowder

@lavarush8741 Жыл бұрын

My glass keeps breaking, and it is annoying

@ihatecath 10 ай бұрын

me vewy wikey!

@PyroRob69 6 ай бұрын

This would take months to make any usable amount of concentrated sulfuric acid. I guess if you have no other choice. Might be esier to go to another country and just buy it.

@michaelthemadsoldiertist 2 жыл бұрын

Was gonna say gunpowder but it’s already done

@rickt10 3 ай бұрын

Black powder. Modern gun powder is smokeless.

@michaelthemadsoldiertist 3 ай бұрын

@@rickt10 it’s mostly aluminum I can’t seem to get it right

@rickt10 3 ай бұрын

@@michaelthemadsoldiertist Aluminum? Flash powder has aluminum, not black powder or gun powder.

@michaelthemadsoldiertist 3 ай бұрын

@@rickt10 rifle powder has aluminum or was it lead? I’m honestly not sure tbh. I’m not all that invested in being right anyway. I can make black powder are you satisfied. You got me. Way to out me for whatever whatever internet boo hoo my life is ruined woe is me.

@nakulchadda6384 2 жыл бұрын

make gunpowder or a rocket from the sulphur left

@thesciencefurry 2 жыл бұрын

The problem is that I need nitrates for that and that's strictly regulatet and hard to get here in germany.

@frostedlambs 2 жыл бұрын

@@thesciencefurry just make it…. Potassium nitrate or sodium chlorate are easy to make

@frostedlambs 2 жыл бұрын

Potassium chlorate from salt free salt

@frostedlambs 2 жыл бұрын

@@thesciencefurry if you can’t buy it make it… I thought you did science, it’s legal to make whatever you want in uk it’s just when you missuse or make a large ammount upto 100g

@thesciencefurry 2 жыл бұрын

@@frostedlambs I will redesign my birkland eyed reactor at some point. But the ammount of nitrates is so low. Making gunpowder is not woth it. And I don't know any other easy way to make nitrates. And no I don't have any degree in chemistry or something xD

@crossagera669 Жыл бұрын

why dont use pure oxygen gas instead of just air?

@thesciencefurry Жыл бұрын

I didn't have that at the time, but yeah I tried it. Works better obviously.

@user-dq2ik1wv2l 2 жыл бұрын

Hello sir is it possible to use agricultural sulfur?

@AirbornePig Жыл бұрын

Doing things outside when they should probably be done in a fumehood lmao

@code-52 Жыл бұрын

People are mixing egg, coconut oil and lime juice, to treat grey hair. Wouldn't this make sulfer acid?

@thesciencefurry Жыл бұрын

@code-52 Жыл бұрын

@@thesciencefurry can you tell me what this makes, and how it would color hair?

@thesciencefurry Жыл бұрын

@@code-52 I have no idea what this makes. If it even makes anything new. Most likely it's just the three things combined. And I have no idea how this supposed to treat grey hair.

@vedu34534 5 ай бұрын

make gunpowder from the sulfur

@anarhuseynov4162 Жыл бұрын

SO2 does not dissolve in water. Just take it easy, bubbling So2 through hydrogen peroxide not water

@baileymoody3916 2 жыл бұрын

Turn so2 to so3 by platinum catalyst. Dissolve so3 in water voila!! H2so4

@curiosaementis7151 Жыл бұрын

Make a sulfur soap

@sebastianNARANJO96 Жыл бұрын

Black powder

@Brandi.Nicole 2 жыл бұрын

💀 You can send to me so I can spread it on my carpet for mites 🤣😉 Where did you find for much Sulfur?? Wow!

@kamelsamer5768 Жыл бұрын

WikiParanoia lol Everything related to gold synthesize or normal gold are missing or misleading, yo wiki, don't you think you're exhilarating? Get out of here! gold salts are missing or do not exist, and no photographs exist. Don't be concerned! No one is going to believe gold can be made from cheap metal. White sulfur is only one of the components used in gold synthesis! Even if someone discovered that white sulfur can be used to synthesize gold, he would still be unable to identify the other compounds.

@user-hw4td5zc1g Жыл бұрын

what about sulfur soap haha

@na9565 Жыл бұрын

Make some nitric acid with some potassium nitrate

@thesciencefurry Жыл бұрын

That's very difficult. You don't get a huge amount of sulfuric acid and nitrate is also hard to get in my country. But I might try.

@na9565 Жыл бұрын

@@thesciencefurry Where are you located? I'm from Sweden, and here you can buy stump remover. Sadly, it's not pure but pretty close.

@thesciencefurry Жыл бұрын

@@na9565 Germany. Sadly pretty much everything with chemistry is illegal here -_-

@na9565 Жыл бұрын

@@thesciencefurry Sodium nitrate can't be illegal, it's the stuff you find in hot dogs and bacon. Also, you could heat air, make no2, combine it with water to get nitric acid.

@na9565 Жыл бұрын

Pretty sure air and water isn't illegal in you country.