Okay. Nothing turned yellow. So i assume this was a success.

Directionless and unsuccessful? Finally something I can relate to!

"One third coke, one third water." Where is the final third? Are they okay? Am I simply left to wonder for its well-being and how it was lost? Excellent video by the way

I actually think this is pretty interesting. Sometimes, we need to appreciate things that just...work. Sure, there's no explosion, no massive color shift, no massive temperature shift, and no effervescence...but it's a useful chemical that, after doing its job, doesn't become a toxic waste superfund site. And...it's interesting that this chemical is actually less dangerous to humans than half of the additives in the Coke (phosphoric acid is not kind to teeth...hell, the Coke is probably safer to drink now than it was before) from what I can tell. Let's all give a cheer for something that is useful, simple, and safe.

Bro needs some research fund for sure, I can tell you that from that measuring cylinder.

Just as an interesting note on lanthanum, it's also used as a medicine to clear phosphate from people with kidney failure. Same as in pools.

Maybe lanthanum azide has some energetic properties

The "flint" in cigarette lighters is actually a lanthanide (cerium) alloy.

I've made two unsuccessful attempts to reduce LaCl₃ to lanthanum metal using lithium metal. First attempt: LaCl₃ + Li in a carbon crucible. 1100°C Result: crucible full of light gray crud. No metal. Second attempt: LaCl₃ + Li in a glass ampoule, buried in a metal cup full of sand. 1100°C Result: sand fused to the glass ampoule, which is now filled with crusty crud and no metal. I'm thinking of trying a fourth time, this time using a 2:1 excess of lithium, and sealing it in the glass ampoule under vacuum before heating. LaCl₃ being hygroscopic may have messed up both of those attempts - wasting my lithium on destroying the water instead of reducing the lanthanum.

I'm a simple man. I see off the cuff, back of the envelope science from a knowledgable Aussie, I click.

Lanthanum Hexaboride is an unusual compound in coloration, if you're looking for something to do with all that stuff-- it's a rather beautiful reddish-purple color with a metallic luster which turns to brilliant blue as you add more boron. They use it in some interesting electronics applications, like ion thrusters for deep-space probes, and it's also a superconductor, though relatively poor at it (super low transition temp). You could also try making your own lighter flints from rare earth metal alloys, or your own ferrocerium if you can get some of that as well.

Lanthanum carbonate is used as a medicine. Also a phosphate remover (phosphate binder as pharmacologists call it), given to patients with end stage renal disease to remove the phosphate their kidneys are no longer able to excrete. It reacts with nutrition derived phosphates in the intestines to form lanthanum phosphate which is excreted with the feces.

that cloudiness was clearly from Turbium :P

People assume that the more obscure an element is, the more interesting, but in general the opposite is true more often than not.

I had an f-element lecture in university and I went back to that script just to tell you....yeah Lanthanum is virtually useless.

1:28 that shattered graduated cylinder he used to measure made me uncomfortable. We need to get this boy some funding to afford basic human needs

If you're at the hardware store, pick up some trisodium phosphate (TSP on the label). Much better source of soluble phosphate than cola. Also just great for cleaning glassware. Its sold as a paint preparation cleaner.

One use for lanthanum oxide is to alloy with tungsten for "TIG" welding electrodes. It makes arc start easier. Howevr, it has a side effect of reducing the melting temperature of the electrode, so it is not a universal solution to all problems. But in any case it is not radioactive like the long time common alloying compound, thorium oxide is.

I'm a biochemist and just about every part of living things metabolism uses phosphates. I'm surprised that stuff is not massively toxic. But I guess it can't get into the cells or something.

Lanthanum isn't boring. It's coordination chemistry is quite interesting due to the large ionic radius. It's the largest +3 ion besides Actinium and I even did lanthanum coordination chemistry today. It's also a treatment for hyperphosphatemia

Doped lanthanium compunds can be interesting like transparent ceramics or uv fluorescent oxides. No explosions or fires I'm aware of though. :)

the ol 1/3 coke, 1/3 water

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Lanthanum is really useful in organic chemistry. Its chloride is a really strong Lewis Acid. For this reason it’s a really good catalyst for free-electrons reaction involving the use of Li/NH3 (liquid ammonia). It can be used to reduce benzene to 1,4 cyclohexadiene or selectively reduce an alpha-beta unsaturated ketone to his enolate. If you want all the reactions are written on “organic chemistry” by Clayden-Greeves-Warren I apologise if i misspelled something. I’m from Italy, english it’s not my first language 😅

Welcome to 2020 where you can't even have a word "Fire" in your name or otherwise you get demonetized.

The other day I was wondering if it was possible to get the rare earth elements from ferrocerium rods? Just a thought.

In the video, there was complaining about no color changes, but according to DOI 10.1016/0022-2860(82)85074-6 a colorless crystal of lanthanum azide exhibits (in the words of the authors) "a remarkable reversible color change to yellowish-brown" at about 80K temperature with a 100mW laser shining on it. That sounds exciting. You have azides, color changing, yellowishness, and lasers. What more could you ask for?

bunnings strikes again

I dont know anything about chemistry but I love watching your videos. Could you do a video where you synthesize the most obscure compound that your skills and knowledge allow you to?

I’ll never get old of your super energetic compound videos . Especially the super obscure and weird ones like C2N14 . So if you have any ideas for more of them that’d be cool.

Tom, if you order some phenazone you could probably make some fluorescent and triboluminescent complexes with it

Your garden walls are awesome. I’ve done a lot of landscape masonry and I’ve gotta say, it’s a cool design.

'No I'm not going to drink it', yeah you know your audience well. I'll admit it was me about to say that.

Love these kinds of video's, always fun to find out what the hardware store is really selling

Oh hey, a new video. I've been watching so many old youtube chemest or maker vids lately, it didn't even first register to me that this was a new on.

Loved the video, would be awesome if you uploaded videos like this more often. Content that don’t require days of set up and chemical reactions to do are still interesting and fun to watch. 80% of the reason I’m subbed to you is to hear you talk shit over the top of your videos :)

Its such a underrated channel, this channel needs to be more popular , your content is amazing

Thanks for another fun video!!! Only form of chemistry i get since finishing school.

Gotta love the broken graduated cylinder

super appreciate the explanation of its intended purpose and the interactions with pools. just adds more layers of info to absorb and helps me apply ig

ye but how does it taste as a salt?

not even a mention of the broken graduated cylinder near the beginning. hahaha love your stuff man.

Only lanthanides I got to use were samarium metal to prep SmI2 (absolute pita) and ytterbium triflate (good ol yitty triff)

Good shit, man! I love your approach on chemistry here.

I used lanthanum chloride as a reagent in flame AA analysis. We bought ours premade in 20L boxes of a 5% solution, but there was a procedure on the books to make it from the oxide form, dissolving it in concentrated HCl. Only had to do that once, it was not a fun reaction when you're making 4L at a time, lots of heat to manage. Lanthanum bonds with trace anions in the solutions we were analyzing and keeps the analytes of interest (Ca and Mg mostly) from precipitating out and affecting results. So lanthanum isn't entirely useless, but it's still boring.

I just caught myself wondering about the chem technician at Baracuda labs seeing this video:::::::: "Nice Boy!" "He's got THE Lanthanide I added" these guys for real THE cream of OTC dealers

Thanks for the instructions mate

Oh dear, you make me love chemistry even with the most boring element. And I'm a botanist.

I don't know about you, as you are in Oz, but here in England one can find on Ebay lanthanides in their elemental (metallic) form, in addition to compounds. If you add nitric acid to a lanthanide (Ln) metal, oxide or carbonate, you can get Ln ions into solution as the nitrate salt.

You need to have a walk around your local fishkeeping shop, phosphate removers are one of many different things you will find.

I friggin love this channel.

Try making lanthanum (or almost any lanthanide) sulphate. This thing is weird: barely dissolves in water, and when you heat it to help it dissolve, it precipitates...

Really love your combat-ready graduated cylinder!

8:38 this man living in a different dimension where a third plus a third is a whole

keep making vids !! love your vids!!

High quality measuring cylinder! I've got some beakers like that.... they still sorta work.

A similar problem occurs when making anhydrous calcium chloride from a solution in a beaker. Difficult to remove when it is hard. First get it to the damp stage for easy removal from beaker. Heat in a evaporating dish to obtain the anhydrous form.

Chemists working with lanthanum: man this is uninteresting Materials scientists working with lanthanum: P E R O V S K I T E

Do you have to special order those custom volume graduated cylinders?

Lanthanum supposedly prolongs the life of cut plants in vases when added to the water.

You can use basic Lanthanum salts to test for acetate. Turns blue if it works, but in my experience it nearly never works..

I know you might just laugh off this but I think flourine chemistry would be a great project

The compound in the video turned out to be very boring, yet somehow you still made the video quite entertaining 😆

Do some TIG welding with a lanthanated electrode; that's something interesting to do with lanthanum. Other than that, I got nothing..

"Let's spend almost the entire video boiling off all the water only to dissolve the resulting salt in water." 10/10 - Would watch again.

Nile Red used Lanthanides for high temp superconductor "123" LaSr2Cu3O7. Bismuth (large +3 ion) substitutes for La.

When you said "the solution is quite cloudy" I thought sarcastically "It's called turbid! Use the correct fkn terminology!" and then you said that it is turbid. Felt like I was God for a few seconds.

Love your work man

Those 22 seconds were worth it

l love the broken graduated cylinder at 1:57

Probably the most interesting thing about lanthanum is the combloc-era Polish assault rifle development project named after it, Project Lantan.

At least you got one more chemical to put in a jar, label and put on your shelf.

7:06 "Just putting my hands in the chemical" glad im not the only one, although I haven't touched anything toxic yet, as far as I know...

That graduated cylinder. This looks like a pirate lab.

sir did you accidentally educate me on lanthanides?

The broken measuring cylinder really shows how high the safety standards are 😭

EP acetate identification method 1: to a solution of sodium acetate add few drops of lantanium nitrare, iodine 0.1N and dilute ammonia. Heat gently until boil. A blue precipitate is form! The only cool reaction of lantanium

The only Rare Earth I can find at Bummings is the safety earth in their electrical items.

Extractions&PoolCleaning

From the "She'll Be Right" School of Science. Good on yer 😎👍🏻

0:34 YES WE DO I WAS SHOCKED

Is there a way to use it to collect phosphates and then extract the phosphates from it?

Look at how clean the bench is.

8:35 "its about 1/3 coke, 1/3 water" and the last third is what? vacuum?

Your chemistry setup is super relatable, except you actually have a good amount of good equipment and glassware, while I own 4 beakers. The most exciting chemical I have is chlorine gas from pool chemicals, which I of course have stored in Pepsi bottles.

At this point I'm pretty convicted his hardware store sells everything including polish sausages

You can get even more rare earth elements from the hardware store parking lot.

What if you synthesise the lanthanide oxalate (react a solution of a lanthanide nitrate with sodium oxalate) then thermally decompose it in the absence of air to see if it produces finely divided pyrophoric lanthanide metal? It might work for some of the lanthanides, or maybe not for any of them (if the lanthanide oxalate's thermal decomposition product is the oxide as opposed to the metal, then it will not work). I know this works for oxalates of transition metals (e.g. Ni and Fe). In the case of transition metal oxalates, thermal decomposition in the absence of air results in carbon or carbon monoxide, which are reducing agents. Hence, the metal in its zero oxidation state (i.e. elemental or metallic form) is produced, instead of the oxide. The metal produced is so finely divided and has such a high surface area that it undergoes exothermic and rapid oxidation as soon as it is exposed to air.

Anybody know where to find the element ranking video?

Is there something you can do with the precipitate?

Also, do you ever watch nurdrage? Another one of my favorite channel.

bloody hell, at first glance I completely missread the label on the bottle as "prostate remover"... (had to double take) realy not sure how I feel about that... but yes, you called me (along with, no doubt, countless others) out, I am curious about what dephosphorised coke tastes like (probably horrible, but hey its science)

Who needs a supercomputer to calculate the dirac & schrodinger equation MOST? Extractions & Ire!!!!!!! It'll be the new Wild West!

I think this was a fair example of amateur research - totally in my zone. You observed the product label, and followed up to investigate properties. Boiling away the water to isolate it was a reasonable approach, you observed the unusual weight of the solution, and you discovered "beaker cement." You found a real-world way to demonstrate its properties, and educated all of us a little more. Good basic chemistry video!

That should be your outro to every video

Awesome video!

cool! i could check it out for you with the ion chromatography for anions, see other impurities with the XRF and measure its radioactivity ...Lanthanum is slightly radioactive..

Can it be used as a desiccant?

if want to remove phosphate why not cheaper salts like Mg or Ca? how is La superior bere?