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New Website Dedicated to Home Chemistry
Nice site, Andrew. Can't wait to see some more content, though :)

And I recommend staying away f ...
21-11-2011 at 17:58
by: Wizzard
The trouble with neodymium...
Here's a video I made of the last round of separation by evaporation of the ferrous sulfate form the ...
21-11-2011 at 12:34
by: Wizzard
The trouble with neodymium...
Argon may work well. Just don't try nitrogen or CO2 :) Speaking of which, anybody know anything abou ...
18-11-2011 at 12:11
by: Wizzard
K-40 isolation
It would be far easier to extract it from KOH or KI, which are both far more availble.

Good luck ...
18-11-2011 at 08:06
by: Wizzard
The trouble with neodymium...
Quite possibly. I dont take advantage of other people ignorance, however ;) Plus I dont know if this ...
17-11-2011 at 12:56
by: Wizzard
The trouble with neodymium...
You know it! I'm going to go a real nice writeup with at least 150g of magnet material, and walk-thr ...
17-11-2011 at 09:54
by: Wizzard
The trouble with neodymium...
Second-round extraction and recrystallization of my magnet sulfate soup produced 5.45g of neodymum s ...
17-11-2011 at 09:25
by: Wizzard
The trouble with neodymium...
Well then I learn something every day! Thanks for the write-up.
16-11-2011 at 09:14
by: Wizzard
The trouble with neodymium...
Oh, yes- I'm looking to increase solubility below 0*C to push ever more ferrous sulfate out of solut ...
16-11-2011 at 07:39
by: Wizzard
The trouble with neodymium...
I know I read some of the other lanthanide sulfates are alcohol soluable- To what degree, I dont kno ...
15-11-2011 at 14:02
by: Wizzard
The trouble with neodymium...
What I'll experiment with next will be how much alcohol I can add to the water solution of high-Nd/l ...
15-11-2011 at 13:12
by: Wizzard
The trouble with neodymium...
It's quite possible there's some other Lanthanide impurity involved there- Neodymium magnets dont ne ...
15-11-2011 at 11:59
by: Wizzard
The trouble with neodymium...
My lighting conditions are a normal 60W incandescent, and big-bulb commercial flourescent lighting. ...
15-11-2011 at 07:36
by: Wizzard
The trouble with neodymium...
Thanks! Very small yield was due to my physical method of separating the Nd salt from the Fe salt- I ...
14-11-2011 at 13:04
by: Wizzard
The trouble with neodymium...
I'll run another batch, fully documented :)

I have stacks of old HDDs and all the motivation I n ...
14-11-2011 at 11:06
by: Wizzard
The trouble with neodymium...
The approximate weight of the magnets, before breaking up and removing the plating, was about 200g- ...
14-11-2011 at 09:43
by: Wizzard
The trouble with neodymium...
Well I know from experience that ferrous sulfate oxidizes with contact to air in solution, unless ke ...
14-11-2011 at 07:59
by: Wizzard
The trouble with neodymium...
Yes, after filtering out the insoluables, the Nd fell out of solution before the Fe did with slow ev ...
14-11-2011 at 05:52
by: Wizzard
The trouble with neodymium...
Mother aqueous solution was 'magnet sulfide', with the nickel COMPLETELY removed manually.

Then l ...
13-11-2011 at 19:32
by: Wizzard
The trouble with neodymium...
Will test once I get home :) It all dissolved in 15cc of very cold water (1-2*C), about .5g of the p ...
13-11-2011 at 09:35
by: Wizzard
The trouble with neodymium...
Alright, I'm first going to admit I have absolutely no formal training in chemistry- I'm strictly a ...
12-11-2011 at 10:51
by: Wizzard
Which elements do you have in its pure state ?
Mr.crow, do you have crystalline Sulfur? It's very beautiful, and a sample is clear/yellow and doesn ...
11-11-2011 at 09:02
by: Wizzard
The trouble with neodymium...
I'm a bit worried about the excess sulfuric acid reacting with whatever gunk is left over after it's ...
9-11-2011 at 13:28
by: Wizzard
The trouble with neodymium...
That might be worth trying. They mention the iron impurity is taken left as jarosite- That's got pot ...
8-11-2011 at 11:43
by: Wizzard
The trouble with neodymium...
I'm dessicating it right now, I'm not really worried about it- I have a 125g (weight of magnets) bat ...
7-11-2011 at 11:29
by: Wizzard
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