Answer 2:
You will not be able to make aluminum powder
from aluminum salts (used in some deodorants, but
not to my knowledge in antacids) in a house
setting. Your description was not entirely clear,
and I just want to caution against mixing anything
that contains alcohol with sulfuric acid (unless
the sulfuric acid is diluted with lots of water),
this could cause a violent reaction or fire. Be
careful with chemicals such as sulfuric acid and
aluminum powder, they can be very dangerous. Why
do you want to produce aluminum powder? I can
maybe relate, having started my interest in
chemistry via fireworks, and I know that this can
be hazardous business, from own experience with
burns and knowing from friends who have
experienced worse. Be careful, play it safe, and
learn as much as you can beforehand. |
Answer 3:
This question depends heavily on how pure you
need the aluminum to be. Any acid you can get at
home (by freeze distilling vinegar, eg.) may
dissolve aluminum but contaminants in the vinegar
will bind with that aluminum to form Aluminum
salts or hydrate (Al(OH)3). If you
aim to produce pure elemental aluminum that
generally requires very high temperatures (you
will never achieve this in solution - aluminum is
too reactive; once oxidized you'll need to do
electrochemistry or some other processing to
reverse it). This is an interesting little
article on the industrial process by which alumina
(oxidized aluminum) is converted into
aluminum: rocksandminerals
Do be careful! Pure aluminum is quite reactive
in the presence of other metal oxides (like rust)
and if initiated can burn at extremely high
temperatures (when rust is used this is called
thermite). |
Answer 4:
I might be wrong, but it sounds like you might
be wanting to do the thermite reaction. If this is
the case have your teacher email me for
instructions. It is very cool but very dangerous
with out the correct precautions. As for
your deodorant question, you can get aluminum ions
or Al2(SO4)3 out
but not the metal. Sorry for the bad news. Click Here to return to the search form.
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