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My attempt to separate elemental sulfur from garden sulfur (video)

Mabus - 10-8-2014 at 05:58

I'm still new here, I hope this is the right place to post this (if not please change it).
So I decided to separate some elemental sulfur from the brown garden mixture based on the method described in this thread, but instead of toluene I used xylene (couldn't find toluene pure enough at the time, just xylene).

So I made a video with this method:
http://youtu.be/N3_bxjFTJGQ

A few notes:
-Yes, I know I shouldn't of used a heat source with an open flame when boiling solvents, but I don't have a hotplate (yet).
-The purified sulfur in the image shows some yellow-brown spots, that's because it started to melt when I tried to dry it, as the sulfur was still wet from xylene, so when I saw that, I just let it in the Sun to dry.

Brain&Force - 10-8-2014 at 09:19

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