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Quote: Originally posted by Tdep  | | Can you test how much carbonate is in it? You could be letting too much air in and it just oxidises, especially if you roast it for a really long
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Yeah thanks it looks like you're right. The hole to allow gas escape was a bit too large, and the top layer of Cyanamideish stuff was mostly
Carbonate, by the amount of CO2 it produced when added to HCl. The bottom layer is different, I think it was destroyed by water vapour. I had fixed my
crucible with a gypsum plastery material plug previously, and water from it may have destroyed my product.
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Here's some photos. There's my crucible, comparing the Cyanate to Cyanamide, my setup, and finally, the reason Engager used an electric furnace.
   
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Okay so uh I got no reply when I asked about the Aminoguanidine Carbonate salt, so I'll have to experiment.
Instead of adding Sodium Bicarbonate solid, I'll be adding a solution of Sodium Carbonate to the somewhat saturated Aminoguanidine Sulfate. Hopefully
Aminoguanidine Carbonate is insoluble.
Im doing this because my AminoGuanidine Bicarbonate precipitated after less than a minute, before all Baking Soda had dissolved.
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Apparently the Bicarbonate salt is formed by addition of Carbonate ion in whichever form. Time to fine out, because that would be an improvement to
the process.
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Okay so I used a 'furnace' to make the Cyanamide. It's just some insulating firebrick with nichrome coils going around the sides. The thing makes
somewhat okay Cyanamide, what I'm assuming to be just under 50%.
So since my Cyanamide is so shit, I used 15g of it, and 9g of Hydrazine Sulfate. I kept the pH pretty under control, but the temperature was hard to
maintain. During the 80 degree Celcius step, the temperature went up to 95 degrees twice. My yield was about 2 grams, which is honestly shitty. I
think I would have somehow messed everything up with the temperature. I know that not getting the temperature high enough is a big problem, but I
didn't know about the temperature maximum.
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Silly question! Are you guys trying to make calcium cyanamide just for the thrill of making it or because you want to make aminoguanidine bicarbonate?
If the answer is the latter, why not just buy it? Its about 1.5 Euros per Kg from my local garden store for 55% calcium cyanamide or you can buy it
online for even less. A little while back I bought a 25kg back. Check out:-
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Perlka-cyanamide-25-kg-fertilizer-...
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