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hmmm... interesting, so the process involves, turning a rare earth (possibly iron too) into powder, then using a magnet to align all the particles (as if using electricity to make a permanent magnet) and then cooking the whole thing to nucleate it and make it grow crystals.

Hmmm, I see. So the problems are heat and pressure, the former may be solved using cold plasma/ionization (using something like a tesla coil), and the latter using a catalytic to stabilize the resulting ammonia.

I've become interested in being able to make magnets from scratch (without electricity), and turned to iron and iron oxides (such as hematite) to try and turn them into magnetite. Anyone knows if there's a way to do that? Or how feasible is it?

I added nitrous gas, because, the hydrogen wouldn't burn in just nitrogen, would it? If the torch won't work, would an electrical arc, in a pure nitrogen (N2) and hydrogen (H2) atmosphere?

I see. Well what about if I had a container full of H2 and N2 and applied a current in the form of an small electric arc?

What would happen if I had a hydrogen (H2) torch burning inside a container full of nitrogen (N2) and nitrous gas (NO2)? Will the reaction create ammonia/ammonium? And if so, would the reaction be reversible at normal pressure?

So I've separated chlorine from table salt and hydrogen from water by doing electrolysis on brine (salt water). How can I produce hydrochloric acid? Should I just mix both and ta-ra?

Hmmm then let's just focus on the first process, do you think it might work? (The reason being I want to be able to produce it out of basically nothing, that is all). Thanks for the adviceabout the plant material, but that's why I proposed feeding them salty water so they would absorb it and die off and then burn them down, so I would mimick what sea/salty plants do (like glasswort). Soda ash (potash + soidum carbonate) would still represent an acceptable product to me. P.D: I actually got some salt from my last trip to the sea.

To simplify, the less I have to do or put into the process, the better. From basically nothing, the more it approaches producing sodium carbonate from materials I can get from trash or nature, the better. The process I proposed can be built and be carried out in the wild. I can get that energy from, wood, charcoal, methane, etc.

I. The process I'm proposing doesn't actually cost anything (other than getting the salt), though obviously, it couldn't be scaled to industrial proportions, which is fine by me. I wanna be able to make it from scratch (maybe I should have been a little more clear). II. Yes, I've already done that by: 1. Produced CO2 by capturing wild yeast and feeding it starch and sugar, and storing the gas in a tire's inner tube. 2. Using coke as electrodes and do electrolysis to salty water to make sodium hydroxide. 3. Then bubbling my CO2 through the caustic soda to make the sodium carbonate (like the other commentator indicated). Nevertheless, I'd rather not have to use electricity at all. The more I remove moving parts, the better. Anyhow, what about the process I've proposed, complicated as it is, you think it could work?

Hello ppl amateur chemist here Before I begin, I wanna ask if anyone here knows and is willing to teach me of a cheap, workable process to create sodium carbonate? With that out of the way, I want to talk about how I recently become very interested in this useful chemical called sodium carbonate, since it has tons of practical uses (as glass and metallurgical flux, for the production of biodegradable soap, as a cleaning agent and to produce sodium bicarbonate, which is also extremely useful), and so I've decided to try and develop my own process to produce it... since the ones I'm most familiar with (Leblanc and Solvay), are too hard and costly for a DIY setup (except burning sea vegetation, but I don't live by the sea). Reading about plant material (cellulose) combustion, I've learned that, the resulting CO2 creates a reductive environment, which enables the plant's nutrients to bind with the carbon and produce minerals such as calcite/aragonite (calcium carbonate) and potash (potassium carbonate), and also a bit of sodium carbonate (though the yield is pretty low). For what I can gather from the Leblanc process: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leblanc_process Is that sulphuric acid is used on table salt, to dissociate the chlorine and then bind the sulphur to create sodium sulphate, which is a lot less stable than sodium chloride, allowing for another, easier dissociation of the sodium and sulphate (using mere combustion and a catching material i.e. calcium carbonate, to take the sulphur away), to bind the former with carbon (producing sodium carbonate) and the later with sulphur (producing calcium sulphide). So I was thinking that, the main problem I've got here to tackle, is how to dissociate sodium from chloride, without any, all too fancy chemicals or processes, if possible. Since I've already been producing some coke (very pure charcoal) in a kiln, I've decided that, maybe, I could just dip my sodium chloride into some water, to dissociate the ions, drop coke dust into my salty water, then, drop my soaked, salty coke into a kiln full of incandescent, non-treated coke to evaporate the water and, hopefully, the chlorine as well (pure chlorine boiling point is -34.04 °C), leaving only sodium behind (while pure sodium's boiling point is 883 °C) in the highly reductive environment of my kiln (and maybe some trace potassium from the coke to create the mixture known as "soda ash"). You guys think this setup could work? And also, what test can I perform to tell me, I've indeed got ashes with a high sodium carbonate yield? P.D: other potential processes I've thought up are: 1. Simply burning my table salt in a bloomery (more than 1000 °C), to try and dissociate the chloride (like ceramicists do to create salty glazings i.e. sodium silicate i.e. liquid glass). 2. Feeding common plants a lot of salty water till they die and then, burning their remains.