Mg from C10H6MgN4O8

[TheRoot]

Can we get metallic magnesium (Mg) from magnesium orotate dihydrate (C10H6MgN4O8)?

[Sensei]

You just have to heat it to high enough temperature..

 

[TheRoot]

Any ideas what chemicals will be created? Do you thing that if I add H2SO4 it will produce MgSO4?

Edited December 9, 2018 by TheRoot

[Sensei]

4 hours ago, TheRoot said:

Any ideas what chemicals will be created?

CO, CO₂, NO, NO₂, etc. etc.

 

Edited December 10, 2018 by Sensei

[BabcockHall]

There is a difference between a magnesium ion, which is what is present in a magnesium salt, and metallic magnesium.  Do you know what it is?

[TheRoot]

Well ion is a particle with positive charge (usually an atom that lose or get some electrons). In metals there are free electrons and the atom are in Bravais lattice. But I think that if we somehow get the Mg atoms they will group. For example it happens in electrolysis of NaOH.

[Raider5678]

On 12/9/2018 at 3:27 PM, Sensei said:

You just have to heat it to high enough temperature..

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Isn't the melting point of Carbon higher then Magnesium? 

[Sensei]

1 hour ago, Raider5678 said:

Isn't the melting point of Carbon higher then Magnesium? 

It is, but it must be pure Carbon. Carbon compound contaminated by other elements will release CO, CO₂, NO, NO₂, H₂O, etc. etc. gases.

e.g. if you have MgCO₃, after heating it to high enough temperature (>= 350 C), it will decompose to MgO solid and gaseous CO₂

 

[BabcockHall]

20 hours ago, TheRoot said:

Well ion is a particle with positive charge (usually an atom that lose or get some electrons). In metals there are free electrons and the atom are in Bravais lattice. But I think that if we somehow get the Mg atoms they will group. For example it happens in electrolysis of NaOH.

Magnesium ions would need two electrons each to become magnesium metal.  Wouldn't it be easier just to buy magnesium metal?

[TheRoot]

The idea is to explore the chemistry