How to Make Mercury Metal from Cinnabar Ore in Element Series - Episode 7

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Mercury can be produced under two main methods. These are either thermally or via a wet-chem process. The ore is roasted in the air in the thermal process, converting mercury sulfide into sulfur dioxide and mercury metal. This process also produces toxic mercury vapor. Another thermal method is to reduce the mercury sulfide with another material this can be material such as iron, lime, zinc, etc. In both, the sulfur reacts with other material to produce that material sulfide and liberate the mercury metal. For the wet-chem process, the sulfide ore is dissolved and then reduced out of the solution. I will combine the wet-chem process and the old standard thermal style in today’s video.
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  • @lukebowers536
    @lukebowers536 Жыл бұрын

    wow, your yeald is amazing, i only got 2 grams, it cost me far more in reagents & clean up time than is nominal.

  • @thomasklevgard
    @thomasklevgard Жыл бұрын

    I suggest one of those induction coils for the heating of the pipe

  • @BackMacSci
    @BackMacSci Жыл бұрын

    Awesome video!!

  • @Pamulwuy
    @Pamulwuy Жыл бұрын

    Subbed great video

  • @shatunyra
    @shatunyra4 ай бұрын

    Good job!

  • @world3957
    @world39575 ай бұрын

    VERY NICE VIDEO GOOD JOB

  • @girijashankar5557
    @girijashankar55573 ай бұрын

    Thanks for your experiment process happy good morning namaste ji

  • @mariokowalski7346
    @mariokowalski7346 Жыл бұрын

    Super

  • @dogodogo5891
    @dogodogo58918 ай бұрын

    can you help me? i tried to extract gold from ore, i make quartz jelly from naoh with some calcium as binder, give them h2so4 thus produces silicic acid and i dried it. finally i put aqua regia i simmer them till i supposed traces of hno3 gone, but suddenly i saw silvery white bubble at top of yellowish chloride complex i assumed when almost boiling, it was silvery white speck when i took out can it possibilty of mercury or just other precious metal? i dont want to mess with mercury whatsoever i chose ore carefully that indicated contain any minimum of mercury thank you best regards

  • @shortgame9770
    @shortgame9770 Жыл бұрын

    good nice

  • @alirezapanahie9253
    @alirezapanahie92536 ай бұрын

    thank you so much for the information .to be honest ,i am making a metal detector an i needs some Mercury .can you tell me where can i by some please .thanks .

  • @karimrazak3798
    @karimrazak37984 ай бұрын

    Can zinc be used instead of aluminum?

  • @ammarkreishan3567
    @ammarkreishan35672 ай бұрын

    Go on

  • @christopherlawrenceyasir6476
    @christopherlawrenceyasir6476 Жыл бұрын

    Hello Do Tanzania extract cinnabar stones

  • @Pyrokartoffel
    @Pyrokartoffel Жыл бұрын

    It would be nice If you attempt making Mg or Sr with electrolysis

  • @dimaminiailo3723

    @dimaminiailo3723

    Жыл бұрын

    That's very complicated and useless process

  • @WheelerScientific

    @WheelerScientific

    Жыл бұрын

    I’ll be getting around to that eventually, might be a while, still have to make gold and silver. Then I will be done with the metals of antiquity.

  • @Pyrokartoffel

    @Pyrokartoffel

    Жыл бұрын

    @@dimaminiailo3723 why🤔, buying strontium is pretty expensive and could be made much cheaper. Making small amounts of Mg just for proof of concept and there exist no videos of these metals

  • @dimaminiailo3723

    @dimaminiailo3723

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Pyrokartoffel The m. p. of both strontium and magnesiun are high, the electrolysis can't be performed as easy as with sodium. Although it's worth a try, I agree

  • @dimaminiailo3723
    @dimaminiailo3723 Жыл бұрын

    Usually iron is used in the thermo process because it doesn't form an amalgam

  • @WheelerScientific

    @WheelerScientific

    Жыл бұрын

    I didn’t have any large surface area iron and only had zinc so that’s why I used it. I mentioned using iron in the video.

  • @SanaTeymouri84
    @SanaTeymouri846 ай бұрын

    what if we don't mix cinnabar with zink? does mercury vape out from the tube to the bottle ? and does the sulfur liquid stay in the first place?

  • @WheelerScientific

    @WheelerScientific

    6 ай бұрын

    You need something to bond with the other chemical to allow a reaction.

  • @SanaTeymouri84

    @SanaTeymouri84

    6 ай бұрын

    Thanks for reply. but i saw plenty of videos that they're just heating cinnabar to 400 degree and on the other side mercury is coming to bottle. are they cheating?@@WheelerScientific

  • @WheelerScientific

    @WheelerScientific

    6 ай бұрын

    They might be doing direct air reduction, or have something else. I could be wrong through.

  • @hakohako6584
    @hakohako6584 Жыл бұрын

    Thank You Mr I need red mercury plz Cinnabar to red mercury

  • @hustonhuston1259
    @hustonhuston1259 Жыл бұрын

    Saudaraku.batang pengaduk itu terbuat dari apa ?

  • @fartak.888
    @fartak.8887 ай бұрын

    Hello sir. Exellent. Thanke you. How can increase mercury density??

  • @xenogen

    @xenogen

    7 ай бұрын

    What are you talking about? You can't just change densities of elements? Also, Mercury is already pretty dense. (You seem to be dense as well.)

  • @fartak.888

    @fartak.888

    7 ай бұрын

    @@xenogen My meant to increase the density of mercury.what materials should be combined?

  • @fartak.888

    @fartak.888

    7 ай бұрын

    @@xenogen Also you are very rude.It's clear that you just use other people's content. You are not deserved respect.

  • @youneszarwal4300

    @youneszarwal4300

    7 ай бұрын

    ​@@fartak.888تعال خاص

  • @-sycamore

    @-sycamore

    5 ай бұрын

    @@xenogen I think bro is using google translate, unless he's an alchemist and tries to turn mercury into gold lol

  • @Abo.Braah.Alharby
    @Abo.Braah.AlharbyАй бұрын

    كيف يمكنني ان افحص الحجر الذي اضعه كصورتي الشخصيه في حسابي إن كان خام الزئبق ام لا

  • @FoUAD-ub4uf
    @FoUAD-ub4uf11 ай бұрын

    Is there a way for me to color it

  • @Feelbetterfungi
    @Feelbetterfungi Жыл бұрын

    What should i do with the liquid waste?

  • @thecat3059

    @thecat3059

    Жыл бұрын

    go to a random public bathroom and flush it, It won't be youre problem after that

  • @user-fv7yr8zh4n
    @user-fv7yr8zh4n7 ай бұрын

    How does Mercury get its red color

  • @fdailmonsumov2684
    @fdailmonsumov2684 Жыл бұрын

    Hello. I did as you indicated. It didn't work. What could be the reason???

  • @WheelerScientific

    @WheelerScientific

    Жыл бұрын

    There could be a lot of things that went wrong. Where did you get your ore from?

  • @phonotical
    @phonotical Жыл бұрын

    First emperor! It's said he has mercury pools around his coffin in the tomb I mens it probabaly been long since collapsed And liquid at room temperature, I'm glad you've remember led cesium! Annoys me when people say there is only one Did you get cinnabar as a pigment or as a lacquer object?

  • @WheelerScientific

    @WheelerScientific

    Жыл бұрын

    I had it in the ore form which came lightly pulverized.

  • @AdvancedTinkering

    @AdvancedTinkering

    Жыл бұрын

    To be fair, people saying that there is only one metal in a liquid state at room temperature are also correct. I would argue it is the more correct statement. That's because "standard conditions" are defined by NIST or IUPAC. And none of those are sufficient for cesium to be a liquid.

  • @Zx_Wizard
    @Zx_Wizard5 ай бұрын

    Приветствую! Разве алюминий не амальгамируется в ходе обменной реакции? Как его потом очистить от ртути?

  • @girijashankar5557
    @girijashankar55573 ай бұрын

    Aapke experiment se yah proof hua ki cinnabar mein Mercury sulphur available Hota Hai isiliye yah silver ko colour kar sakta hai yah abhushan banane mein bahut upyogi hoga lekin isase yahan yah proof nahin hua hai ki isase gold bhi ban sakta hai remember please

  • @petevenuti7355
    @petevenuti7355 Жыл бұрын

    Where can I find cinnabar that's real? Seen a lot of fake ...

  • @mrbrad187
    @mrbrad187 Жыл бұрын

    So how did the ancient people know this an how were they able to extract the mercury from cinnabar? Vast pools of mercury were found under Teotihican in Mexico and under a temple pyramid in China! Plus you did all that and only got a few drops, they had thousands of gallons of this stuff!

  • @squishyghost1234

    @squishyghost1234

    Жыл бұрын

    Because the emperor got slaves to mine as much cinnabar as possible, then burn the cinnabar to create liquid mercury. I am pretty sure tons and tons of cinnabar was mined. It is actually simple how HgS + O2 -> Hg + SO2, not that complicated

  • @ggyggg2272

    @ggyggg2272

    6 ай бұрын

    You should be appreciating ancient people they don't get enough credits after all they are people

  • @allangibson8494

    @allangibson8494

    5 ай бұрын

    Putting cinnabar in a ceramic pot and cooking it will produce some elemental mercury that usually escapes as condensable vapour.

  • @khodanoor
    @khodanoor Жыл бұрын

    Hello, please provide a film on the purification and increasing the density of mercury

  • @Moaaz-ff5pi

    @Moaaz-ff5pi

    6 ай бұрын

    هل حجر الزجنفر الاحمر القرمزي الثنائي البلوري hgs يستخرج منه الزئبق الاحمر السائل النقي ذات جوده ونخبه أولى وكم نسبة وكمية الزئبق التي يستخرج منه من حجر يزن 116 غرام

  • @alirezapanahie9253
    @alirezapanahie92539 ай бұрын

    HI what is difference between red mercury and silver mercury and i need to buy some .do you have some for sale .thanks .

  • @chemicode

    @chemicode

    8 ай бұрын

    There is no such thing as red Mercury it's a scam sorry

  • @alirezapanahie9253

    @alirezapanahie9253

    8 ай бұрын

    thank you for answer .@@chemicode

  • @WolfyRealm

    @WolfyRealm

    8 ай бұрын

    Red Mercury is fake

  • @alirezapanahie9253

    @alirezapanahie9253

    8 ай бұрын

    thanks for informations .do you have any for sale .?@@WolfyRealm

  • @freg-kl7qw

    @freg-kl7qw

    6 ай бұрын

    Red mercury is cinnabar that is the ore from where mercury is extracted, like you see in video

  • @kingKhan-346
    @kingKhan-346 Жыл бұрын

    hamare pass 235 garam silawar markari he hame ise bec na he fatehpur shekhavati jila sikar rajthan india

  • @edsaad9960
    @edsaad9960 Жыл бұрын

    How can i contacte you ?

  • @phonotical
    @phonotical Жыл бұрын

    It did look like you had the flame too close to the pipe set up, meaning it won't warm up fast enough If you look at real cinnabar close enough, you can see small parts of mercury, as though it sweatted

  • @WheelerScientific

    @WheelerScientific

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah, it got light glowing red hot, but if I was to do it again I would throw the reduction end into my propane furnace.

  • @fdailmonsumov2684
    @fdailmonsumov2684 Жыл бұрын

    Heeelp mee pleaseee.