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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

House made hydrochloric acid, sodium hydroxide, sodium hypochlorous acid

This experience, I tried today and was very successful. These are chemicals that I find in my kitchen - baking powder, sodium chloride, acetic acid.

I want to hypochlorous acid, but this acid is very difficult to obtain in pure form for me to become contaminated. First, get a bucket of water and add as much as possible until the sodium chloride is no more, can be solved faster results.
Then connect the positive of the battery in a carbon rod and negative for the carbon rod. We use carbon (graphite), and it does not break in electrolysis. (IMPORTANT: Make sure the two carbon rods are not connected, a short circuit be dangerous, the car battery is capable of producing 30 amps of current if you do not realize how strong it is).

Now add a membrane (paper) between two electrodes. Be sure the water does not deviate from left to right; otherwise the experience will be a complete failure. After this step, place the electrode and the electrolysis started. If you want more salt, electrolysis done to remove sodium chloride.

After the experiment, to create an equivalent amount of fluid from the right side of the membrane and the membrane is left without any alteration of the water. Pour the solution into the right place for container and the container is left to the left. In the positive electrode. The uptake of oxygen and chlorine gas, chlorine reacts with water to form hydrochloric and hypochlorous acid (chlorine weak acid) to form. Great, you've done to make a mixture of hypochlorous acid solution.

If you want to make hydrochloric acid, hypochlorous acid, put the mixture in the hot sun, and now produces hydrochloric acid, oxygen gas, but the output to the environment.

The other side of the electrode to produce caustic soda, which can be used in many chemical reactions or react with the acid to form sodium chloride.

What if no one in his membrane electrolysis. You get NaOCl (alkaline solution) or NaOCl3 if temperatures exceed 40 degrees Celsius. Using a pH indicator Cool, we show that all these chemicals are produced correctly.

Also sodium carbonate by heating sodium bicarbonate. Besides heating to about 1000 degrees Celsius to obtain sodium. We also have sodium acetate or sodium IUPAC name.

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