Making basic copper carbonate

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8 жыл бұрын

Hey guys, in this video we will be making a little bit of basic copper carbonate. To do this, we use copper sulfate pentahydrate and sodium carbonate (which was made in a previous video).
I will use this to make pyridine from niacin (vitamin B3). The main thing that I will use pyridine for is as an organic catalyst.
Doug's Lab video: • Basic Copper II Carbonate
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@NotSoLogical 8 жыл бұрын

now i want an advanced copper carbonate

@gummel82 7 жыл бұрын

NotSoLogical What about the pro copper carbonate

@DrakkarCalethiel 7 жыл бұрын

Zitronensaft Needs licencing... :D

@marshallhorton7526 6 жыл бұрын

NotSoLogical sorry your stuck with copper carbonate that wears uggs and drinks pumpkin spice lattes.

@RoflCraft96 6 жыл бұрын

the fuck did you saaaaay ?

@aeriumsoft 5 жыл бұрын

copper carbonate EX

@victorgigante5374 7 жыл бұрын

I love how blue copper compounds are.

@eier3252 4 жыл бұрын

Nobody: Copper compunds: I'm blue daba dee daba die

@xtreme1002003 3 жыл бұрын

@@eier3252 Cobalt: “Hold my beer.”

@MICRSCP 3 жыл бұрын

@@eier3252 legendary

@miscme6046 3 жыл бұрын

Yes

@miscme6046 3 жыл бұрын

@@xtreme1002003 yes

@LiborTinka 5 жыл бұрын

"No Smurfs have been harmed in the production of this video."

@MrMiki434 7 жыл бұрын

5:19 it is awsome to see that copper forms a complex when HCl is added (Cucl2) with a green colour. But as soon as water is added, cooper starts to create a complex with water instead which has a light blue colour

@kjpmi 8 жыл бұрын

I love copper salts. Copper and chromium, so many vivid colors.(and yes you actually pronounced my name exactly right, you'd be surprised how many ways you can fuck that up)

@NileRed 8 жыл бұрын

+kjpmi haha i am glad i did. I just rolled with my first instinct

@kjpmi 4 жыл бұрын

@@kutukutu5821 My last name, I'm guessing. I don't remember...it was 4 years ago, apparently.

@user-pr6ed3ri2k 3 ай бұрын

Eat chromate

@kjpmi 2 ай бұрын

@@user-pr6ed3ri2k I'll give you something you can eat

@Prototype5151 8 жыл бұрын

Both your channel and Doug's are one of my favorites ever. The quality is just outstanding. Great job ;)

@GymGirl88 3 жыл бұрын

For anyone watching this from a chemist: remember always add the acid or base into water NEVER water into acid or base (which is what he does here when cleaning, if you have a very concentrated acid or base the mixture heats very quickly)

@ariatcg 3 жыл бұрын

I'm guessing the HCl is 30%, and the rule of not adding acid to water really doesn't apply here

@GymGirl88 3 жыл бұрын

@@ariatcg quite possibly, I'm not questioning his safety skills, note just adding knowledge for others. Since there's no obvious reaction we can assume his acid isn't too concentrated, but it's better safe than sorry

@ariatcg 3 жыл бұрын

@@GymGirl88 yeah i always follow the rules, but i have seen people saying that it only applies to nitric or sulfuric acid at high conc. and the highest conc. of HCl in the lab is probably around 38-40%. Mine is 32%.

@GymGirl88 3 жыл бұрын

@@ariatcg even with that level of HCl you can get heating of the solution in my experience. 🤷 But I've also made 50% hcl solutions from concentrated hcl for cleaning teflon bottles and that definitely gets hot

@ariatcg 3 жыл бұрын

@@GymGirl88 thanks for letting me know :>

@utubefrog09 3 жыл бұрын

I love how you always mention where you saw a particular experiment and give shout outs, that’s awesome

@baardkopperud 3 жыл бұрын

One of the first - if not the first - experiments for my old Salter chemistry kit back in the mid 1980s.

@Leon21CS 8 жыл бұрын

Hey Nile, have you ever considered doing a Q&A about your lab and processes? I would also love to see a tour of your lab space with all of your glassware and the chemicals that you have synthesized. Also, could you look into the synthesis of amino acids using the Strecker synthesis? That would be awesome! Keep up the great work! I love your videos.

@Spycyzygy 8 жыл бұрын

Good job Nile, you remembered all of the chemicals this time :D

@AntiProtonBoy 8 жыл бұрын

that's a really nice colour

@rittenbrake1613 6 жыл бұрын

Oh I love Doug's Lab and Nile Red , Both gained my Love

@kastynm.9004 3 жыл бұрын

So my dog usually doesnt give 2 shots about what im watching but hes really trying to watch this... he got mad when i moved my phone & now hes whining because he cant see whats happening😂😂

@zelda.1129 3 жыл бұрын

ok lol

@kaseygage9462 3 жыл бұрын

Love this comment🤣🤣

@violetraven9440 3 жыл бұрын

Well I can’t blame him

@squish718 7 жыл бұрын

this was insanely helpful as a reference for a scientific discussion, thank you so much!

@NicholasMonks 3 жыл бұрын

Just a beautiful compound.

@buckhubach2720 6 жыл бұрын

thanks for adding the cleaning tidbit for the fritted funnel

@dex1lsp 2 жыл бұрын

I love that colour so much!!

@Moire9 3 жыл бұрын

love the color of the pentahydrate, both powdered and aqueous!

@chasestuff2230 8 жыл бұрын

Your videos are very soothing i watch them to cool down

@darkbrotherhoodassassin7642 3 жыл бұрын

While watching the video i asked myself, "where is the blue?". The grey scale mode was active.

@NikeTao 8 жыл бұрын

Could you some time do a video (or maybe a series) on basic lab setups? I know you show them in every video, but I think it would make a really nice series if you in detail explained when to use which condenser, when to use a fractionating column, what flasks are used for which purpose. As far as I know there's nobody who would cover these aspects and it's really useful for people who actually want to practice real chemistry. Hope you notice this Thanks, love your videos!

@Riot228 3 жыл бұрын

That deep blue is beautiful

@kingdomofportugal-brazil 3 жыл бұрын

I made a lot of it using this method!

@breaksbassbleeps 8 жыл бұрын

Good video. Thought you might like to know that unlike some other compounds, sodium carbonates solubility actually decreases as temperature increases.

@pyrofriends2323 8 жыл бұрын

Very good video! Thank you!

@chemlab9873 6 жыл бұрын

I made this basic copper carbonate in the 2 times less smaller scale but the final yield was surprisingly too excellent than I expected. Now I almost have a small tub full of Basic Copper Carbonate.

@friendstype25 5 жыл бұрын

It's so pretty!

@codyshelton7906 7 жыл бұрын

Beautiful color

@Potentialiser 8 жыл бұрын

Even tho I won't be doing many of these things shown in your videos, in the near future atleast, it's hell as entertaining to watch. Good on you, mate.

@NileRed 8 жыл бұрын

+potential - iser Thanks!

@kadenherzog9727 3 жыл бұрын

when it was in the paste form it looked like it would taste so good

@DobleWhiteAndStabley Жыл бұрын

I love watching your videos. It inspired me to do my own chemistry even though im poor as all get out.

@brandondent353 8 жыл бұрын

you deserve way more subs than you have

@NileRed 8 жыл бұрын

+Brandon Dent Thanks :)

@mochimoy8865 3 жыл бұрын

His tool labs is on another level.

@Connection-Lost 3 жыл бұрын

It's funny how in the game Factorio, copper ore is orange-red while iron ore is this color of blue, lol. I mean it does actually help you remember easier, since the products you make are also those colors, and no one said a game where you build factories and trains from scratch, alone, by hand, was realistic.

@derpestcake9669 3 жыл бұрын

Yes

@dragonphog579 2 жыл бұрын

Finally, a NileRed video I need for my school work

@VidyUwU 3 жыл бұрын

It’s sooo pretty

@davidsferrazzo 3 жыл бұрын

Oh yea I totally needed to know how to make this.

@OmegaMegalodon 6 жыл бұрын

it is beautiful

@jade43296 8 жыл бұрын

Copper has one of my favourite chemical hues. The blue is always rich with depth.

@NileRed 8 жыл бұрын

+Boltzmann It always has a nice blue color :)

@BadPete81 3 жыл бұрын

I remember a time when I was eagerly measuring niacin from beer with CE. Some time and pain later I realized that in nature it tends to be in amide form.

@miljanch 3 жыл бұрын

CuCO3 is my favourite chemical compound.

@KowboyUSA 8 жыл бұрын

Already subbed to Doug's channel. Been watching his videos for years.

@zanpekosak2383 7 жыл бұрын

By adding sodium carbonate soulution to CuCl you can neutralise it and that add NaCO3(s) until it percipitates. You will get CuCO3 and NaCl.

@Nexus4582 8 жыл бұрын

Not sure if you take suggestions but I'd love to see some polymerisation reactions. I saw someone make nylon when I was younger and thought it was pretty cool.

@olzoro8985 8 жыл бұрын

I already made some CuCO3, just via CuCl2 Solution but in the same way. Love your videos nile, keep up your awesome work! :)

@appledream8573 6 жыл бұрын

Nice man

@bkm83442 6 жыл бұрын

You can use baking soda instead of sodium carbonate. It's cheap, available, and dissolves more easily. You end up with the same products, plus some water which gets filtered off anyway.

@randomsleepyness 3 жыл бұрын

Whenever he adds distilled water 👌

@timetogetcancer7866 8 жыл бұрын

The crispiness of the video...

@nunyabisnass1141 7 жыл бұрын

Now this is interesting, because I use baking soda and water to clean sulfated electrical connectors (connected to a lead acid battery of coarse), and that is the exact color of the waste wash. Obviously I'm not a chemist, but this will be useful when explaining why i use this technique in the future.

@holguacamol8408 7 жыл бұрын

will you be showing us both the intermediate and advance copper carbonate next?

@jhyland87 3 жыл бұрын

Neither you or Doug mentioned that heating it to drive off the water is a bitbof a sensitive peocess, lol. It decomposes into CuO, which is black. I was convinced i had impurities in my carbonate or copper sulfate for the first run.

@mtalhakhalid1679 6 жыл бұрын

Monosodium glutamate or Chinese salt react with copper has a deep blue color i have done it at home

@messiahyah 8 жыл бұрын

so when is the Q&A video coming? I am looking forward to that!

@NileRed 8 жыл бұрын

+Imlife I keep forgetting to do it, haha

@messiahyah 8 жыл бұрын

No problem! I gotcha man!

@flowerpower6985 4 жыл бұрын

Omg tysm I searched everywhere for this

@rediempti 8 жыл бұрын

Colorfull FHD chemistry! Sweet :)

@heh_boaner 3 жыл бұрын

I'm glad he showed how he cleaned it because it looked like a nightmare.

@upyours5460 Жыл бұрын

Hi nilered, I was wondering if you could do a video on botulism? I know it may be outside of the field you work within. It would be neat to see a chemist do a few experiments

@nostalgistl0058 7 жыл бұрын

sodium bicarbonate with copper sulfate also works.and it won't need heating

@thepracticalscientist7356 3 жыл бұрын

sodium carbonate is exothermic when mixed with water so it does not really need heating

@arnavbhagwat3163 2 жыл бұрын

I Actually did the reation but I found decantation and evaporation works really well cause it give more denser copper carbonate but I used it to make colored chalk

@Molko701 7 ай бұрын

but that would leave any un-reacted copper sulfate (which should be in slight excess) in the copper carbonate. Best to do a vacuum filtration and wash with hot (not boiling!) water.

@arnavbhagwat3163 6 ай бұрын

I was just suggesting a cheaper way but yeah your point is valid for making pure copper carbonate

@nunyabisnass1141 6 ай бұрын

@@Molko701i disagree and feel free to tell me how I might be wrong. Instead use an excess of sodium carbonate to ensure no copper sulphate remains, and wash and decant several times to wash away the more soluble sodium sulphate.

@nunyabisnass1141 2 жыл бұрын

Just so you know, its ok to use excesses in this reaction so long as you get everything to dissolve since rhe reagents are so cheap. CuSO2 doesnt dissolve i water nearly as easily as literature tends to claim, so using more water is just fine since it wont harm anything unless you have limited container sizes.

@djspacecake 3 жыл бұрын

yo nile ! could you re do this one and record it using a macro lens, maybe lower 1/3 exposure, i think the visual would be amazing. you're awesome

@s.sradon9782 5 жыл бұрын

i was procssing copper into copper sulfate using my automated chemical reactor via the; atmospheric oxygen process and after i poured off the solution, the unreacted copper was left for an hour and copper carbonate formation was observed, this method seems significantly more economic and easier to automate.

@leam1978 4 жыл бұрын

it also makes a lovely ceramic stain

@jakeevans7075 8 жыл бұрын

Hey could you make some Adenosine triphosphate (ATP). I think it would be a cool thing to make.

@jhyland87 3 жыл бұрын

Turns out... if you heat up the basic copper carbonate too much, it degrades into CuO, which is a black powder. I didn't know that, and I tried drying the end result on a hot plate. I kept thinking there were impurities in the copper sulfate pentahydrate or the bicarbonate. I did a couple runs before I was able to find out what it was, lol.

@yesitsmojo24 3 жыл бұрын

School: "Never add water to an acid" Nile: 5:24

@grants5167 5 жыл бұрын

Interesting. I run a plant that manufactures around 20 tonne of BCC a day and we do it different to this. However some of the similarities are fascinating as is seeing the reaction

@Wishingweezy 4 жыл бұрын

Bruh. Can u sub to mee

@rock.entity 8 жыл бұрын

+Nile red what would you recommend in the way of chemist kit for a sort of "starter pack" and love the videos also ways a great quality and educational

@Shruthi.shashidhar 2 жыл бұрын

Damn that's some good yield... Anyway, does the acid you used to clean the copper carbonate breaker wash off with water?

@HeaanLasai 7 жыл бұрын

Random thought: could you use teflon tools in the chem lab? PTFE (teflon) is one of those materials in the lab that almost doesn't react with anything. It's not universal but close enough. Also it doesn't scrape glass, and it's available in any shape you want it as kitchen utensils.

@Ryan-lc4bl 2 жыл бұрын

Stirring bars are coated with Teflon, so you're right.

@Lucian4694 2 жыл бұрын

This may be an old video and my comment will likely not be recognized but I just wanted to say that copper carbonate just so happens to make my favorite color! :D

@DFliyerz 8 жыл бұрын

I wasn't aware that copper carbonate could be used as a catalyst for the decarboxylation of niacin. Glad that I won't have to make ammonium chromate!

@erikakerberg1104 8 жыл бұрын

Cool

@nutbreaker22 7 ай бұрын

First I made that hilarious comment, now I'm making this reaction myself. You live, you learn.

@jamie91995 8 жыл бұрын

You should have used the copper chloride made from the copper carbonate and hydrochloric acid to dissolve aluminum.

@SmoulderDrache 3 жыл бұрын

That copper sulfate solution is such a drinkable shade of blue

@mairisberzins8677 3 жыл бұрын

How would you go about making azurite (another basic copper carbonate - Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2 )? Is it just a case of different proportions of starting materials or do you have to take another route?

@SzajbonLipsky 8 жыл бұрын

i made this 4 years ago but i use cu no3 .2

@shaphyshaphy 3 жыл бұрын

I clicked on the video just cause the color was so nice

@dinamoore1580 7 жыл бұрын

We like sodium carbonate aka. soda ash aka. washing powder and sodium bicarbonate

@carnivorousplants5217 3 жыл бұрын

You should try adding pennies to baking soda and hydrogen peroxide, 1.2.3 ratio. You get a blue copper liquid that does a bunch of stuff.

@scabbarae 5 жыл бұрын

I just tried to make basic copper carbonate today by adding sodium bicarbonate solution to a solution of copper (II) acetate that I made previously. At first I got what I think was the right compound (instantly saw a chalky blue-green precipitate), but I made the mistake of heating further and it turned black. I'm guessing it converted to CuO.

@AmericanFishDude 8 жыл бұрын

Hey I have a question unrelated to the video. I recently bought some IPA and Hydrogen peroxide. After doing some research I found a few websites that said it is possible to make ketones by mixing them, and probably with a catalyst. Could you maybe make a video on how to do this, or just explain to me how? thank you! love the videos keep them up! ill diffidently donate once i get a card!

@EvelynnEleonore 8 жыл бұрын

3:38 looks like a more than decent swimming pool (cocktail) to me

@bandanasaikia6048 3 жыл бұрын

Thats blue moon ice cream. I WANNA EAT IT

@SenkoLoaf 3 жыл бұрын

And here, is where the mic quality improves drastically

@Ubernator 8 жыл бұрын

Nile Red, I am sure you have seen the product called Never Wet. I want you to run some experiments with it to see if it has any good use in chemistry. Coat the inside of some beakers and see if it helps with chemicals from sticking to the sides of the beaker. Instead of having to wait for the liquids to finish dripping out of the beaker you can just watch as everything plops out instantly!

@NileRed 8 жыл бұрын

+Justin Angers That is an interesting idea but i would always be concerned that the never wet would either react or contaminate my reaction

@Ubernator 8 жыл бұрын

+Nile Red I am not a chemist at all but I think Never wet is silicone based?

@ATFieldZenkaii 8 жыл бұрын

0:18 In chemical equation You wrote "calcium carbonate" instead of "copper carbonate".

@NileRed 8 жыл бұрын

+Gingerbread of death noooooooooo :(

@pyrofriends2323 8 жыл бұрын

+Nile Red can you produce CuCO3 by exposing your basic copper carbonate to CO2 at higher pressure? If you make a video about this it can be very interesting!

@tjhooker7483 6 жыл бұрын

Did you know what he meant? Then zip it, Shirley. Maybe he is using the pictured rxn as his experimental template.

@deepikanarayan6515 3 жыл бұрын

Lol lol lol lol lol lol lol

@yingxiawei821 3 жыл бұрын

@@tjhooker7483 u idiot. Does he have to zip it?

@edgeeffect 7 жыл бұрын

This is the first chemical experiment I did at home, back when I was about 12 or something... takes me right back to my youth. ... oh no, I think I did it with CALCIUM carbonate. I always wanted to reverse the reaction back to Sulphate... but I've always assumed that it would need Suphuric Acid... and I couldn't get that at that tender age.

@edgeeffect 7 жыл бұрын

No problem... I can get drain cleaner that's just sulphuric acid and inhibitors now. But I couldn't when I was a kid.

@pietrotettamanti7239 7 жыл бұрын

kan petyim HCl can't protonate sulphate, or more properly, it can, but only a few.

@theterribleanimator1793 6 жыл бұрын

Pietro Tettamanti hmmmm, i made nitric acid with some fertilizer and muriatic acid, isn't nitric acid soposed to be stronger than sulphuric acid?

@pietrotettamanti7239 6 жыл бұрын

The Terrible Animator i don't know, but i think that sulphuric acid is stronger than nitric acid. you did a low conc. nitric acid, and probably highly contaminated with hydrocloric acid. to synthetize nitric acid is better to use sulphuric acid, as it has a very high boiling point. hydrocloric acid has a lower bp than nitric acid, so you boiled away HCl with HNO3. the problem isn't the strenght of the acid, but his bp. the reaction between H2SO4 and KNO3 to produce HNO3 can go forward because you boil away the nitric acid. by reacting SO4-- with HCl you would produce some H2SO4, but it would be more or less 50/50 of the two acids and you wouldn't separate them.

@pietrotettamanti7239 6 жыл бұрын

The Terrible Animator how did u test your nitric acid?

@NegustoruL 8 жыл бұрын

You`re going to stink up the lab again with that pyridine. :) Congrats on the 120%! hehe

@angieclark608 3 жыл бұрын

The sulfate carbonate went from having Neptune's color to having Uranus color when the sodium carbonate was added.

@maci00782 4 жыл бұрын

@NileRed It's possible a video of the synthesis of Copper(I) Hydroxide (CuOH)?Thank you from Italy

@Wishingweezy 4 жыл бұрын

Man can u sub to me

@markuslouw3727 3 жыл бұрын

Oh my lord copper carb is so messy. We use it as a glaze colorant in pottery and it’s just *so green* it turns absolutely EVERYTHING green in raw form.

@Prchemist06 3 жыл бұрын

Do you use cobalt carbonate ?