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It takes time and filter paper and not much sodium acetate from each batch. Look on ebay: its dirt cheap.

Find some pyrite, that can be decomposed into sulphuric acid and Fe3+. You wont get much, very impure, but its not too difficult. You just need an old fossil...

Now, before I start, I want to make this known: Not many people will be able to do this, and if you want to make a big batch, then you'll have to go collect for the cause! So, most of you wont know, but Pyritic fossils (they are common in chalk and at the jurassic coat (thats lyme, seatown and charmouth in Devon)) can get infections. A tiny bacteria, the scurge of collectors, attack the pyrite, breaking it apart. Now, this is infectious: Keep infected fossils with uninfected and the bacteria will jump over eventually. But, what has this got to do with it? well, Pyrite fossils break down into sulphuric acid in humid conditions, which further deteriorates them. The bacteria is awesome at speeding this up. so, an old box of fossils that have been mistreated are now a source of sulphuric acid! But that takes a long time, and you get tiny amounts, you cant use this for much, but if you want to ignite Potassium chloride (chlorate? I dont remember) then you only need a little bit. But what if you want a little more? Well, there are two options: Destroy 100 million year old fossils in a pestle and mortar: Once the fossils are about a year old, they become....fragile. They can be broken up and then heated to react them into the acid. Gather Pyritic sand: Now, this stuff is....rare. This option is basically only available to people who live near a beach with pyrite fossils, as not many people would take a pot of this home with them. But, if you walk up a beach on the very extent of the tide, you will eventually find brownish sand gathered in a small area. it might be closer to cliffs, or buried, but this is a load of brown sand and its 100% pyritic and 100% fossilless (it tends to be broken down fossils, so theres nothing left). This should be able to be broken down for more sulphuric acid. Basically, this takes time, but heating to 40 degrees and keeping hydrated (and outside as it can create HS2, which im told is toxic) should give enough sulphuric acid to do minor experiments. Anyone who could improve the yield of the acid, please pipe up!

Thanks for the reply, will be an immense help, but im not sure how I can conduct that kind of thing in my back garden! Some of them are a great help, but then again, im not sure where to get things like peach neon lights!

Hey hey people, Im going to be starting a very very long summer soon, so I need to plan what ill be doing (I have approx. 12 weeks!). So, I want to try and make some chemicals and extract some elements from stuff I have at home. So, I require help and chemical knowledge on how to get some of the chemicals Im looking for! So, basically, I can buy about 20 1ml or 5ml jars, and I plan to put the elements and chemicals into these (I dont intend to hold large quantities of anything!). ELEMENTS ACCOUNTED FOR ARE CROSSED OUT! Hydrogen is easy enough (not exactly a challenge!). Helium is challenge, but I reckon if I turn a smoke detector upside down and leave it under an up turned beaker, it should get enough helium after a few weeks to be put into the jars I plan. Lithium can be taken from a battery Beryllium I need help with! I have no idea what would contain it... Boron. Now this is a bit of an issue, I know Borax contains it, but extracting it could raise issues. I dont mind this being oxidised so that it wont be too reactive. Carbon I know how to get in a few ways... Nitrogen isnt going to get purer than whats in the air. I suppose all of these are going to be impure Oxygen is in the air, but purer oxygen should be optainable with the hydrogen, no? Flourine is far more difficult, but I do have high flouride toothpaste. Perhaps its better to just leave it as it is? Neon is practically unobtainable, unless I could break a lightbulb open and take it from that source Sodium should be obtainable from salt, but as electrolysis requires it to be molten (at 801 degrees no less) then ill end up leaving it as salt probably. Or buying some..which I dont really want to do. Any further starts getting a little laborius, but feel free to suggest compounds to try as well! COMPOUNDS: Potassium Chloride (Distilled) Water Alum (Sodium Acetate) Silver Nitrate