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S02 gas
Somewhere I read a formula for generating S02 gas using copper scrap and an acid. CRS has struck again and I can't find it again. Any help would be
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You can generate sulfur dioxide by the reaction of sulfite, bisulfite, or metabisulfite salts with an acid. This is because the sulfurous acid forms
and then quickly decomposes into sulfur dioxide and water.
2HCl + Na2SO3 ---> 2NaCl + H20 + S02
HCl + NaHSO3 ---> NaCl + H2O + SO2
2HCl + Na2S2O5 ---> 2NaCl + 2SO2 + H20
It is made by burning elemental sulfur.
S8 + 8O2 ---> 8SO2
It is also formed by the pyrolysis of metabisulfite.
Na2S2O5 ---> Na2O + 2SO2
Why do you need SO2 gas?
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Are you trying to make h2so4. You could lead so2 to h2o2
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You can get it by burning sulfer. Easiest way. Nurdrage demonstrates how this can be done in one of his youtube videos. youtube.com/nurdrage
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I think it's what you want,maybe
Cu+2H2SO4 ---△ →CuSO4+SO2↑+2H2O,and it should be oil of vitriol,or it won't react
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Yes, the latter is a known (but not the best) method for making SO2.
If you have conc. H2SO4, then a much better method is to dilute this acid somewhat (to appr. 50%) and then add the warm acid to solid Na2S2O5 or
K2S2O5 (sodium or potassium metabisulfite, available from suppliers who sell stuff for making wine and beer brewing). The SO2 simply bubbles from the
solid, and if the reaction becomes somewhat sluggish, just heat gently.
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Buying sulfur off of the interwebs and then burning it in air will yield SO2. You can separate this gas from nitrogen by cooling to -10C, The SO2 will
condense while the nitrogen remains as a gas. I though that was a neat way to obtain resenably pure SO2(l). It gets so cold where I live that I can
leave it outside overnight in winter and it will condense. Be careful!! If you have asthma, SO2 will knock the air clean out of your lungs for at
least 10 minutes (talking from experience).
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Its not economical burnig sulfur. Better use Na2SO3 or Na2S2O5.
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Not *economical*? It may be messy, but your objection is bizarre. In the first place, sulfur is cheaper than sodium bisulfite; maybe $6/lb versus
$9/lb even in small quantities, and in bulk the price of sulfur drops to less than $0.20/lb (though that is for multiton quantities... I expect $1/lb
is as low as you will get for amounts you can lift).
But further, look at the stoichiometry: you need three times as much weight of Na2SO3 for each equivalent of SO2 as you would of sulfur. So unless you
have a source for bisulfite that offers it for about $0.30 per pound this is simply wrong.
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But there also is another thing. From Na2SO3 or Na2S2O5 you get really pure and concentrated SO2, it's like bubbling CO2, made by adding acid to
Na2CO3. I see this as a big advantage. Making SO2 with these chemicals is as easy as making CO2 from Na2CO3.
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One disadvantage for burning sulfur to generate SO2 is the fact that it is difficult to lead the SO2 gas into a reaction chamber, unless one has a
vacuum, which many do not have access to.
You can't seal the burning vessel, unless you mix an oxidizer with the sulfur. At this point, it might actually be economical to just use
metabisulfite, instead of potassium nitrate or chlorate and sulfur.
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Solution to these problems: liquefying the gas ensures high purity and usability.
I don't like the sodium metabisulfite method because it's so expensive for the amount of gas it generates. I burn sulfur in air and liquefy the
mixture of gases. I then collect the liquid and store it in a lab freezer. Works well enough for me.
An added advantage to this method is that significant reaction pressures can be reached simply by letting the SO2 boil. If you are trying to make
sulfur trioxide for example, high pressures drive the equilibrium more to the SO3 side, increasing yield, without even using a pump
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Quote: Originally posted by White Yeti  | Solution to these problems: liquefying the gas ensures high purity and usability.
I don't like the sodium metabisulfite method because it's so expensive for the amount of gas it generates. I burn sulfur in air and liquefy the
mixture of gases. I then collect the liquid and store it in a lab freezer. Works well enough for me.
An added advantage to this method is that significant reaction pressures can be reached simply by letting the SO2 boil. If you are trying to make
sulfur trioxide for example, high pressures drive the equilibrium more to the SO3 side, increasing yield, without even using a pump |
Do you use dry ice/acetone or is a salted ice bath sufficient to reach SO2's boiling point of -10?
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| Quote: Originally posted by redox |
Do you use dry ice/acetone or is a salted ice bath sufficient to reach SO2's boiling point of -10? |
I am "fortunate" enough to live in a place where the temperature drops below -15C during the night in winter. I simply leave the mixture outside
during the night to allow the SO2 to condense. I think an ethylene glycol/water bath should be sufficient. Just leave the mixture in the freezer and
make sure there nothing else in the freezer. That way, most of the energy will go into removing heat from the ethylene glycol/ water bath, not into
lowering the temperature of everything in the freezer. In any case, -10C is nothing a rankine heat pump can't handle. Dry ice is a bit extreme, a salt
bath is good as long as you use ammonium chloride. It will enable you to reach -18C.
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Is there a specific reason why ammonium chloride allows lower temperatures than, say, sodium chloride?
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| Quote: Originally posted by seawolf | Somewhere I read a formula for generating S02 gas using copper scrap and an acid. CRS has struck again and I can't find it again. Any help would be
good.
Mark |
Sulphur Dioxide Provides Fascinating Home Experiments
Popular Science Science Monthly March, 1936
http://preview.tinyurl.com/SO2-Pop-Sci-1936
I'm so old — I Fart Dust and remember when SO2 was the
refrigerant in home refrigerators.
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redox: All I know is that the freezing point of an ammonium chloride salt bath determines the "0" on the Fahrenheit scale. Thus you can rest assured
it gets cold enough to condense sulfur dioxide. You can experiment with calcium and sodium chloride (which might get cold enough as well), but
ammonium chloride will definitely work.
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I found this pretty amusing: down on p. 94 there's an ad for "Science Discovers New Way to Increase Weight" - it "is putting pounds of solid, normally
attractive flesh on thousands of 'skinny', run-down people who never could gain an ounce before."
You'd never see something like that these days!
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| Quote: Originally posted by MrHomeScientist |
Mark[/rquote]
I found this pretty amusing: down on p. 94 there's an ad for "Science Discovers New Way to Increase Weight" - it "is putting pounds of solid, normally
attractive flesh on thousands of 'skinny', run-down people who never could gain an ounce before."
You'd never see something like that these days! |
You wouldn't see this in today's Popular Science either....!
February 1938.
http://tinyurl.com/Pop-Sci-Sci-Studies-Nudists
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The wiki article is lacking somewhat. The Monitor-Top killed enough families they mostly quit SO2 and dabbled with ammonia for a while (when they
leaked it drove people out of the building quickly even if they were asleep when the leak occurred), some of which still ran into the mid 60's. I grew
up in the largest refrigeration repair business in Kansas City and remember the tanks of ammonia and SO2 gas, which I kept until they went up in a
fire in the 70's. Freon was known and used for safety reasons but until the late 50's was still very expensive. Only the wealthy had units running
freon for a lot of years. The cheap units were ammonia, bad because they abounded in packed tenements just asking for disaster. By the mid 60's I only
used my SO2 tanks to flush the moisture from freon units when I was rebuilding them. It worked very well for this. Acid formed in the system would eat
small patches inside only microns deep so it was not harmful at all. But dried the hell out of the insides of the unit better than any other method I
ever used. By 1965 I was buying 50 LB tanks of R12 and R22 for around 17 dollars. R22 was a couple dollars more per tank.
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" Richard Feynman
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And classified adds offering chems to the home experimenter!
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SO2 Popular Science October 1942
Home Experiments Explain the Magic of Cold from Chemistry
http://tinyurl.com/SO2-Pop-Sci-Oct-1941
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OK, an old reference from Watt's Dictionary of Chemistry notes that HClO will oxidize Sulfur to form H2SO4, so one can avoid the generation of the
SO2.
2 HClO + S + H20 --> H2SO3 + 2 HCl
HClO + H2SO3 --> H2SO4 + HCl
Note, HCl and HClO may also liberate some Chlorine gas as:
HClO + HCl <---> H2O + Cl2
Note, I do not expect the creation of any sulfuryl chloride, SO2Cl2, but if it is formed, it reacts violently with water:
2 H2O + SO2Cl2 --> 2 HCl + H2SO4
PREPARATION OF HClO:
HClO can be made by adding a weak acid, like acetic acid (or HAc of which vinegar is dilute variety) to bleach (Sodium hypochlorite, NaClO):
NaClO + HAc --> NaAc + HClO
Distill off half of the solution to nearly double the concentration of the HClO as HClO vapor and Cl2O come over mostly first during the distillation
process. Use promptly as anything but dilute solutions will disproportionate:
3 HClO ---> 2HCl + HClO3
and to a much less extent, a decomposition reaction:
2 HClO --> 2 HCl + O2
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I dont know what you smokin but word on the street is I can buy a 5 pound bag for 8 bucks at my local plant nursery. It's 80% stuff but is easily
purified by grinding and washing with water. Just hook a funnel to tube connected to a glass rod inserted through a cork or rubber stopper. The glass
tube is positioned so that it is at the bottom of the flask so that when gas enters its bubbled through the mixture. Then another glass tube is
inserted in the cork or rubber stopper and and tube connected to it and then the tube is connected to a source of vacuum. The second glass tube is
positioned in such a way that it does not come near the liquid and is used to pull air through the liquid. Next step is place some sulfer on something
that it will burn safly on and light it. Turn on the vacuum. Position the funnel over the burning sulfer. Cheap. Easy. Fun.
You can add a water bath to the pull setup to catch any particals followed up by a drying tube and even bubble it through sulfuric acid.
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MeSynth:
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