Making lithium hydroxide

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8 жыл бұрын

In this video, we will be making lithium hydroxide by reacting lithium metal with water!
Lithium hydroxide is a precursor to lithium drugs. I plan to use the lithium hydroxide to make a drug that's used to treat bipolar disorder, and to make lithium peroxide, which is a CO2 absorber (reacts with CO2 and produces O2)
I plan to do an Q and A video, so if you have any questions you'd like me to address in the video, leave them in the comments.
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@MrStickyIggy 8 жыл бұрын

future video: tips on cleaning labware after the procedures

@extremelyfatguy807 6 жыл бұрын

caros acid nuff said

@littleskilletscribbles3106 4 жыл бұрын

He does that now on his second channel, Nile blue!

@jhyland87 4 жыл бұрын

@@littleskilletscribbles3106 yep! also a great channel

@rattlesnakz9716 3 жыл бұрын

@@extremelyfatguy807?? Caros acid

@AlbanianThrash 3 жыл бұрын

KOH in isopropanol will clean pretty mush any glassware

@crispy8684 8 жыл бұрын

never seen lithium macaroni before.

@Eurotool 4 жыл бұрын

Gray Kraft Dinner Mac & Cheese 😂

@user-rc9jf8ng2k 2 жыл бұрын

Finally I can make my own antidepressants without having to pay. Thanks NileRed for your advice on making at home medicine!

@n111254789 2 жыл бұрын

100% solid idea absolutely nothing is gonna go wrong here lol. It's a mood stabilizer not an antidepressant though

@dogcarman 2 жыл бұрын

Well, more fodder for ChubbyEmu, methinks.

@Chris47368 2 жыл бұрын

Not sure if this post is serious (more on the side it is not and OP is very likely joking) but incase it is serious and for those who might be considering it: Im pretty sure your bodies lithium levels need monitoring while taking lithium based medicine....im pretty sure this is due to nephrotoxicity (kidney) and other issues related to taking too much lithium....not the best thing to be taking without medical supervision lol

@BeastFitness472 2 жыл бұрын

@@n111254789 bro i swear i got this a time ago

@karolus28 2 жыл бұрын

yes snort it

@evilferris 4 жыл бұрын

3:20 25 g of lithium is ~ 3.60 moles. Reacted with water will liberate 1.8 moles of hydrogen gas. Since 1 mole of gas at 1 atm is about 24L at 20 degrees C, he made ~ 43.2 liters of hydrogen.

@noxpopuli4821 2 жыл бұрын

yoo epic stoichiometry moment

@logc1921 2 жыл бұрын

@@noxpopuli4821 I love moles.

@noahhastings6145 2 жыл бұрын

@@logc1921 MoléMoléMoléMoléMolé Moooooooooooole

@logc1921 2 жыл бұрын

@@noahhastings6145 Mole Mole Mole Mole Mole Mole Mole

@General12th 2 жыл бұрын

@@logc1921 Just repeat that another hundred billion trillion times and you'd have a mole of moles!

@mheermance 8 жыл бұрын

It seems strange that the lithium metal was cheaper than lithium hydroxide. I liked that you discussed how things don't always go smoothly. A big part of successful outcomes is just slogging through barriers and many videos don't include that.

@leothecrafter4808 2 жыл бұрын

The lithium ion is so small and light that the mass of the hydroxyl group makes a difference

@vagellan_8842 7 жыл бұрын

Keep doing what you're doing! I love chemistry, and you really make it informative, and still interesting.

@hackerism1 4 жыл бұрын

>people will get mad No, no we won't. We love chemistry and its even better when we don't have to pay for it.

@youtube.commentator 2 жыл бұрын

>greentexting on KZfaq

@dots5641 8 жыл бұрын

Why would someone be mad that you used lithium? Isn't it quite common? I mean, I can literally extract it from old phone batteries

@NileRed 8 жыл бұрын

+Dan Swoboda Some people find it hard to get and they like to use it for other things. Not just reacting it with water.

@dots5641 8 жыл бұрын

+Nile Red ok. Makes sense. Btw. How would you turn lithium carbonate back into lithium or the hydroxide?

@NileRed 8 жыл бұрын

Dan Swoboda It would be really hard. I dont think there is an easy way.

@dots5641 8 жыл бұрын

+Nile Red I was thinking adding carbon to the carbonate inside an airtight container. I do have a furnace. Do you think that could work?

@196Stefan2 8 жыл бұрын

+Dan Swoboda No, this won't work. You cannot reduce alkali metal compounds with carbon, they are too "un-noble". By the way, Li is the most electro-positve element of the peridic table or the in other words least-noble metal. Maybe it will work with magnesium, like Mg can reduce many other metals (even Na and K), but this is extremely exothermic and requires a protective gas atmosphere of Argon.

@goodfeller2 8 жыл бұрын

ur voice is oddly therapeutic

@masoudnoushabadi717 8 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your description of every task and thought you plan to do .

@NikeTao 8 жыл бұрын

Your videos really make me want to go and get a degree in Chemistry now. Keep up the great work and thanks!

@Eurotool 4 жыл бұрын

4 years later. How did that go?

@NikeTao 4 жыл бұрын

@@Eurotool, not that I did, but still wish I would get one.

@Eurotool 4 жыл бұрын

@@NikeTao I'm glad you replied. Hope things worked out for you anyway!

@zoeym9197 2 жыл бұрын

@@NikeTao did you major in anything? im thinking of psychology or sociology

@WniGrup 2 жыл бұрын

@@zoeym9197 Looks like he got a degree alright, a BS for sure!

@Psychaotix2001 7 жыл бұрын

I know it's an "old" video now, but would it be possible to perform this under an inert atmosphere? I know you can buy welding-grade argon (usually 99+% pure) for relatively cheap but it's got a huge amount. Just make sure it's the pure argon cylinder, not a combination gas.

@j2003 2 жыл бұрын

@attackoramic8361 2 жыл бұрын

For some reason I really love Ionic compounds just because I like making up names for them and seeing if it actually exists

@ashW110 7 жыл бұрын

NileRed Thanks for all your videos. You are doing some really good work. I was waiting for the second part of this video where you would make some lithium drugs. However, I realized it won't happen so I decided to try and make it myself. There is not much information available regarding this process, so it wasn't particularly easy, but it looks like all the processes were successful. If you are interested, feel free to take a look and let me know if I've made any mistakes. Thanks

@NileRed 7 жыл бұрын

Hey, I do plan to do it eventually. I skimmed through your video and it seemed pretty good! Do you have any plans for the carbonate?

@ashW110 7 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much indeed. To be honest, I don't have any plans for it future use, I have very insignificant amount, so I will just seal it and leave as a "trophy":)

@ericasuberban6936 8 жыл бұрын

Wow, You make such fun videos! Thanks for shareing :)

@SusanWojcucki 8 жыл бұрын

Ooh, debunking pseudoscience. This world needs that desperately.

@hwgden 8 жыл бұрын

Agreed

@Spycyzygy 8 жыл бұрын

+SubscribeToSyndicate The video he did is super funny look up "Nile Blue" and it's there

@uxleumas 3 жыл бұрын

@@Spycyzygy only one video though. super funny though

@daniellewilson8527 2 жыл бұрын

Which video does he debunk pseudoscience? Also what pseudoscience is debunked?

@symbioticcoherence8435 6 жыл бұрын

Really looking forward to Hydrazine Sulfate! ^-^ And also the acid on skin video, but mostly Hydrazine :)

@larsu1212123 6 жыл бұрын

For people that (like myself) cant get larger amounts of Lithium than what they can extract from those lithium batteries, there is a third way of synthesis. You can start out with relatively harmless lithium carbonate, heat it until it decomposes to lithium Oxide and react that with water. basically like the production of cement from Calcium carbonate

@breonapimental2830 8 жыл бұрын

I'd love to see the Luminol one

@lamamriaissa1165 2 жыл бұрын

Your work is useful. Thank you. You deserve all the best. I really love you, your brother from Algeria

@HiwasseeRiver 8 жыл бұрын

Add a drop of HCl to a small sample of your LiOH powder. The amount of bubbles (CO2) will indicate the relative amount of carbonate contamination.

@robertkrumm1768 7 жыл бұрын

Saw you were using a broken breaker and heating it. Super dangerous because when borosilicate glass breaks it causes microcracks and stress points that will cause failure with thermal cycling. Be safe and discard it. And just FYI to everyone, be careful with lab glass, I've driven two colleagues to the ER for lacerations because of compromised glass!

@fabianfeliciani6785 7 жыл бұрын

Robert Krumm BUT ITS NILES SIGNATURE BEAKER

@Nick-cq7bz 4 жыл бұрын

When you melt the Glas with a fire torch, the micro cracks also melt and you can use the beaker as before.

@Andrew-my1cp 4 жыл бұрын

Woah what the hell went wrong with your coworkers? If something is ER worthy it's either poisoning, burning, or shrapnel from an explosion.

@rhysmorgan7027 3 жыл бұрын

Andrew Villalobos sounds like the compromised glassware detonated, which would throw glass shards around the lab

@xXponyinthestarsXx 3 жыл бұрын

@@Andrew-my1cp That's... just not true. As a child, I severed an artery in my hand by falling on a glass lampshade, which obviously broke. People also often go to the ER for injuries that may or may not be more severe than they seem, such as abdominal pain after a car crash potentially indicating internal bleeding. Further, I once took my father to the ER because he had a small (nearly microscopic) splinter in his eyelid which was causing severe pain and compromising his vision by scratching his lens.

@greengrowlocks566 3 жыл бұрын

Here is great demonstration of the LiOH, It would be cool to see you do a small scale "Colex" process for enriching the Li-6 isotope using a mercury lithium amalgam and lithium hydroxide.

@welcometolimbo4597 8 жыл бұрын

love your videos!

@Shivachemist 8 жыл бұрын

Cool video as always :-) the only alkali metal hydroxide gives off monoxide on strong heating (but in a current of hydrogen or in vacuum). So, it is better to prepare monoxide by burning the metal alone in dry oxygen (but it always contains some peroxide anyway). It can also be obtained by heating either Lithium carbonate or nitrate but again in atmosphere of hydrogen (to prevent the formation of peroxide)

@rareearth7466 7 жыл бұрын

with a smaller size Li particle you should be able to increase reaction rate

@sciencetestsubject 8 жыл бұрын

also an idea to speed up the reaction, is to put the beaker in an ultrasonic cleaner, the sonics would probably break up the hydroxide coating.

@oshavlfarms7239 6 жыл бұрын

Dude go to a welding supply place and get a large cylinder of argon, then setup a low regulated flow and aim the output. Super cheap and useful.

@dROcITYkING11 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@cypherf0x 6 жыл бұрын

An amine is used to scrub CO2 in US submarines. Submersibles and rebreathers typically use soda lime based compounds.

@HiltownJoe 6 жыл бұрын

if you go for the boiling route, cant you just set it up like a simple destilation but just vent the steam. That should fill the boiling vessel with steam and displace all co2 from the air.

@georgegibbens9356 8 жыл бұрын

I like The Mistakes like you said I like the REALISM GREAT VID! KEEP THEM COMING (OH OH OH !)

@derekrader1 5 жыл бұрын

I’d like to see a lithium citrate video. Lithium citrate was added to soft drinks by pharmacists at soda fountains in the last century. I think those old soda pop formulas are fascinating chemistry like the ammonia coke and chocolate phosphate.

@AgentOffice 2 жыл бұрын

Cocaine Coke

@vishva8kumara 3 жыл бұрын

It is quite stable for a metal on the same column as Sodium and Potassium - no wonder they use it on mood stabilizers.

@atdit 7 жыл бұрын

Children in africa could have eaten this lithium

@pinksapphire2898 7 жыл бұрын

😂😂

@MuzikBike 7 жыл бұрын

They probably aren't as depressed as the richer countries

@speciamdoesntdraw1052 4 жыл бұрын

@@MuzikBike A lot of them are way more depressed and a lot of them aren't as depressed.

@jhyland87 4 жыл бұрын

they still can

@archkull 3 жыл бұрын

@PrettyNeckslashes If they are in rich or just in middle class parts of Africa, they likely say things along the lines of "There are people who can't afford this.", and if they in poor parts of Africa they'll likely say "Who knows when we'll get this next" or some variation of that.

@adamantris2 8 жыл бұрын

luminol and nitrous would be neat!

@andrewlorick166 8 жыл бұрын

xylene isomerization would be cool. It's used a lot in industry

@Lucius_Chiaraviglio 2 жыл бұрын

If you boil the lithium hydroxide solution under cover with only a small hole for steam escape, the steam will displace all the air so that not much chance is available for carbon dioxide to react with the lithium hydroxide. Likewise when you are drying it in the oven.

@siyabongabeizelmdluli9982 5 жыл бұрын

thanks for the video..can you also do a video on the reduction of esters using lithium aluminum hydride as reducing agent

@StanislavG. 5 жыл бұрын

8:23 - The right beaker is looping :)

@ThePbatemon 2 жыл бұрын

We use this at work in the production of grease

@WillThat 8 жыл бұрын

Could you rig up some way to purge it with argon when vacuum filtering if you didn't want any contamination?

@krystianmazgajewski1663 8 жыл бұрын

Dude it would be cool to see a solvated electron reduction one day. Or even a Lindlar reduction! (honestly the electrons would be cooler).

@pacificcoastpiper3949 2 жыл бұрын

I think the easy way around the co2 problem is a vacuum desiccator

@SelinicaHarbinger 8 жыл бұрын

As an oxygen generating scrubber, does it have anything in common with the processes that make the oxygen generating candles work?

@roywang7414 4 жыл бұрын

May I ask, after 4 years :), where does the blue color comes from? The lithium hydroxide covering the lithium in a saturated solution of water; I don't think anything in the reaction is blue, except lithium in ammonia solution (which even then is not the lithium ion being colored, it's the solvated electron)

@SB-KNIGHT 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks, man I have been looking for a source of this and its so damn expensive for what it is!

@user-qy5yz7iq8g 5 жыл бұрын

Instead of dropping lithium into water you can drop water into lithium slowly. I made in my home perfectly dry lithium hydroxide using this method

@alfarabe1564 2 ай бұрын

I was interested when Nigel said that lithium peroxide does not only suck co2 but also liberates o2 which is similar to the photosynthesis of plants.Pretty cool right.

@abstractdonut948 8 жыл бұрын

Hey, Nile. Do you plan on doing a video on making lithium carbonate in the future?

@mrchangcooler 8 жыл бұрын

Hey, do you think you could try extracting caffeine from coffee with a soxhlet extractor? If not make a video about it, at least comment on how it went if you do try it?

@mzulfiqar4794 4 жыл бұрын

Very nice sir.

@Sevenigma777 2 жыл бұрын

Man I miss these kinds of vids from him

@derrickbecker9856 5 ай бұрын

Demonstrate capturing CO2 using aqueous LiOH and bubbling in air. Measure pH change as it goes to carbonate form

@editname6868 5 жыл бұрын

Step:1 put lithium in water Step:2 remove the lithium Step:3 boil the water Step:4 there ya go

@timothyfeldhaus297 Жыл бұрын

They use LiOH in industry in systems to hydroscopic remove moisture from air in systems that need specific moisture content.

@David-fh6rr 7 жыл бұрын

if you dry LiOH in the oven, doesn't it form Li2O ?

@spagsauce 3 жыл бұрын

ngl thid video is really lit 🔋

@Gravity4220 2 ай бұрын

A pre grind would of helped out a lot.

@OkieDokieSmokie 4 жыл бұрын

Should've put it in a vacuum chamber to dry it. Less exposure to air, less contamination. Wouldn't be as fast but would've helped.

@kingofthend 2 жыл бұрын

That warning sounds like a promise.

@CAoffRoading 7 жыл бұрын

for the second method you used to precipitate out the lithium hydroxide, would it not make sense to use a heavier than air inert gas, several types can be procured cheaply from a welding supply, and for the subsequent filtration if purity is an issue use the same or other inert gas to filter it under pressure rather than a vacuum. for the final water removal would freeze drying under a vacuum make sense? I have a very limited knowledge ofchemistry however I value knowledge and enjoy your videos and as an over the road trucker I have no shortage of time for pondering of things like this.

@Atomos95 8 жыл бұрын

+Nile Red The contamination isn't a problem... Also sodium hydroxide is full of carbonate. Just a titolation and u can use it. :)

@LerRhann 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for posting this though. I really should get into chemical engineering.

@johnlbales2773 6 жыл бұрын

Big fan! Thank you for your understanding & skill. Is there a use for the hydrogen gas beyond a combustible?

@Dave-dh7rt 4 жыл бұрын

A reducing agent

@DaffyDaffyDaffy33322 6 жыл бұрын

Could you use a soxhlet extractor for getting the lithium hydroxide? I think it would be way easier.

@kneptr97 8 жыл бұрын

Luminol!

@krystianmazgajewski1663 8 жыл бұрын

If not, I totally cast my vote for acrolein, the toxic metabolite of cyclophosphamide in the body which causes hematchuria from hemorrhagic cystitis. The antidote is mesna.

@196Stefan2 8 жыл бұрын

I never thought that LiOH was so poorly soluble into water, that if forms a crust around the metal. NaOH and KOH are easily soluble in concentrations of > 50% w/w (these commercially available concentrated alkali hydroxyde solutions appear like a kind of syrup).

@HeisenbergADHDScienceAndMore 6 жыл бұрын

Make a video about making lithium bromide!

@StinkySneakerz 8 жыл бұрын

pretty cool, it might be pretty interesting to see you make. sodium hydroxide as well.

@StinkySneakerz 8 жыл бұрын

I'm guessing maybe performing electrolysis with sodium chloride and water could be away. am I right? if so, it would be a pretty interesting, cost effective and easy video idea.

@John_Stick 2 жыл бұрын

Watching this 5 years since this was posted

@AtlasReburdened 8 жыл бұрын

Is there any problem with vacuum filtering under a "pure" nitrogen atmosphere? That seems like it would be a cheap solution for purity if you already had a tank that was up to spec on hand.

@TheVonMatrices 8 жыл бұрын

I want to see the effects of acids on skin. I'm assuming that since you are still releasing videos, you still have two working hands. In my organic chemistry class, the first time I handled concentrated sulfuric acid I didn't use gloves because the lab assistant had previously talked about how sulfuric acid would eat through gloves. When he discovered what I was doing, he reprimanded me and instructed me to use gloves for subsequent experiments. However, I always wondered what actually would have happened that one time if I had made a mistake and spilled the concentrated sulfuric acid on my hand.

@andriuchaMetal 8 жыл бұрын

So... Why not grind the lithium bits into smaller particles?

@dtiydr 3 жыл бұрын

3:06 Me: "dumps the whole bag in."

@hamzaburghol5484 2 жыл бұрын

Hello, I have a question, what is the name of the solvent that was used as a substitute for sulfuric acid in the carbon treatment for the first stage in order to separate the waste oil into two layers?

@gozitanmontainbikegoprorid5261 8 жыл бұрын

hey nile can you make a vid on how to nitrate toluene

@777swampie 4 жыл бұрын

What about building a glove box. If you fill it with N2 , then the vacuum filtering would not contaminate your product. I built one with PVC pipe as the box frame and covered it with PVC sheet from Walmart. The PVC pipe joint glue works for sticking the sheet to the frame.

@42x42x42x42 7 жыл бұрын

Cool videos! Do you know how to get lithium from lithium-ion battery pack? It's easy to get from lithium-metal battery but I have no idea how to separate it from the cobalt in the lihtium-ion...

@travisschiewe8547 2 жыл бұрын

What do you know about converting Lithium Hydroxide/Carbonate back to Lithium metal ?

@Phoenix38m 2 жыл бұрын

question....would it be possible to crash out the Li Hydroxide with ethanol as opposed to isopropyl?

@skankinwitch5180 7 жыл бұрын

lithium carbonate is the salt used for bipolar disorder. My father and I take it (although my dad is on a massive dosage of 1200 mg)

@bpark10001 4 жыл бұрын

Why not do the boiling in an Erlenmeyer flask with a one-hole stopper in it, and boil to dryness. The escaping steam will not allow CO2 to enter. Does LiOH attack glass?

@krappa 8 жыл бұрын

Acid on skin! So want that one!

@FlowersForYou629 8 жыл бұрын

How could you use a vacuum filter and keep the system away from exposure to oxygen?

@kagereact 2 жыл бұрын

Would it be sn Idea to vacuum filtrate it with nitrogen as a surrounding? So the Lithium hydroxide wont get in touch with the co2 in the air.

@jwtv8731 8 жыл бұрын

Hi, do you think it would be possible to extract the sodium percarbonate out of laundry stain removers like vanish gold oxi action? The container says it is about 30% percarbonate Thanks

@harrydudley-bestow5222 8 жыл бұрын

Do the benzaldehyde next! I'm dying to see the chromyl chloride in action.

@imsowhiteandnerdy25 7 жыл бұрын

I'm no chemist.... just curious, since you were worried about co2 exposure, would shielding it with nitrogen or argon be beneficial?

@gibbyace5077 7 жыл бұрын

Jerry pricey

@General12th 2 жыл бұрын

@@gibbyace5077 Not just very pricey, but Jerry pricey! That's how you know it's expensive!

@KnakuanaRka 5 жыл бұрын

What about heating the water? That would greatly increase the reaction rate and the LiOH’s solubility. Or are you concerned about the reaction going out of control? Also, evaporating sounds like a way better idea; vacuum filtering is going to result in a massive amount of carbonate conversion, since you’re actively pulling a lot of air through the lithium, compared to evaporation, which only exposes the surface.

@kefkaZZZ 2 жыл бұрын

Could you use the lithium hydroxide that forms to protect lithium from atmospheric oxidation?

@elementcollector995 7 жыл бұрын

Hi, I am stirring lithium under mineral oil. When I put it in it was grey but now it's black and has floated to the top it still reacts with water though. Why is? How can I prevent it? Thanks