making Carbon disulphide liquid

[Alchemist]

Does anybody know of a safe and easy way to make CS2(l)?

I needed to extract sulphur.

[RyanJ]

Does anybody know of a safe and easy way to make CS2(l)?

I needed to extract sulphur.

 

Extracting Sulphur can be quite dangerous from what I know' date=' if you heat its orers you could get some [ce']SO_2[/ce] formed and thats not nice stuff. It would probably be cheaper just to buy the stuff and then react it with Carbon

 

 

Not actually shure if that will work - if not then search Google, I'm shure you'll find what you need

 

Cheers,

 

Ryan Jones

[woelen]

Forget about making CS2 at home. This is exceedingly difficult. Have a look on http://www.sciencemadness.org and search for this subject. It is in a recent thread.

 

If you want to dissolve sulphur, then you can use hot toluene. Almost pure toluene can be obtained at hardware stores as thinner. It's a nice and MUCH safer alternative for CS2.

 

Sulphur dissolves in warm thinner quite well, in cold thinner it dissolves in smaller amounts. I did the experiment and put it on my website.

 

http://woelen.scheikunde.net/science/chem/exps/S+toluene/index.html

 

If you want to repeat this experiment, please heat the toluene with boiling water and not with an open flame. Toluene is quite flammable and it is moderately toxic.