sodium hyrdroxide help please

[dom3mo]

Please i added ammonia hydroxide to sodium chloride, I boiled the white precipitate and collected the powder in alunium foil. I did not know the toxcity of sodium hydroxide when i made it. .Will this hurt me

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

Assuming you did actually produce sodium hydroxide, you should remember that it's a strong base and would be caustic if it touched your skin. Handle it with care (preferably with gloves). If some comes in contact with your skin (or anything else you value), wash it off immediately.

[dom3mo]

are there any bad gases

[Darkblade48]

It is unlikely that you made any appreciable amounts of sodium hydroxide. The only danger I can see is from inhaling the ammonia fumes when you tried to boil it off.

[YT2095]

you made absolutely NO sodium hydroxide.

[hermanntrude]

sodium hyrdroxide.....ammonia hydroxide.... alunium ...

 

Perhaps a good chemistry rule should be "if you can't spell it, don't mess about with it"

[Zephir]

...i added ammonia hydroxide to sodium chloride, I boiled the white precipitate and collected the powder in alunium foil. I did not know the toxcity of sodium hydroxide when i made it...

Nice experiment, but you've just precipitated a portion of sodium chloride back again. Feel free to use your product in the kitchen again.

[John Cuthber]

OK Zephir, while you are in the mood for patronising comments, perhaps you would like to explain why the addition of something that's mainly water and has no ion in common should precipitate salt from solution.

[Zephir]

... why the addition of something that's mainly water and has no ion in common should precipitate salt from solution....

If we add the 30% solution of spirit in water into concentrated solution of sodium chloride, most of salt will precipitate as well.

 

How is it possible, if the solution consist mostly of water and the spirit has no ions? Hint.

[John Cuthber]

What was added wasn't spirit, it was a solution of ammonia in water so it was still overwhelmingly water.

[Zephir]

What was added wasn't spirit....

...it was 30% solution of spirit, supposedly...

[John Cuthber]

Who supposed this?

[YT2095]

Dom3mo,

 

do NOT listen to this FOOL!

Feel free to use your product in the kitchen again.

 

absolutely do NOT reuse this salt!

 

if you can`t Buy NaOH or just want to try and make some of your own for the enjoyment, then make a strong soln of washing soda (sodium carbonate) and make a slurry of garden lime and water then pour the carbonate in and stir well.

you`ll have Sodium Hydroxide soln

[scotchlady]

Dom3mo,

 

May I ask why are trying to make sodium hydroxide? It is indeed very caustic stuff and if you did not have a very good use for it, I would recommend (imo) that you DONT fool around with it.

 

Jen

[dom3mo]

Dom3mo,

 

May I ask why are trying to make sodium hydroxide? It is indeed very caustic stuff and if you did not have a very good use for it, I would recommend (imo) that you DONT fool around with it.

 

Jen

 

To make water more conductive.

[Darkblade48]

You can make water more conductive by simply adding ions to the solution (i.e. with sodium chloride, water becomes much more conductive); there is no need for sodium hydroxide