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Reduction of Arsenic Trioxide with Lithium
i have an old container of arsenic, i dont know what compound it is, but im highly sure it is Arsenic Trioxide. now ive done a reaction of lithium and
Sodium Hydroxide, the Lithium reduced the Sodium Hydroxide to form Lithium Hydroxide and Sodium Metal (Li+NaOH=LiOH+Na), would the same thing be
possible with reducing Arsenic Trioxide with lithium and then clean the arsenic with Cont. Hydrochloric Acid? im wanting to collect elements and
unfortunately arsenic is on the periodic table and want it over and done with, please help, my friend is coming over in a few days and i wanna show
the reduction of one of my chemicals to yield the element
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Why you make things so complicated ? just add your arsenic trioxide to hot 25% HCl , filter, and start adding SnCl2 in conc. HCl , stir and heat to
little boil for couple minutes, very clean arsenic will be at the bottom of baker, wash with hot water, alcohol and then ether and dry.
2AsCl3 + 3SnCl2 ---->2 As + 3SnCl4
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yeah ill think about that, sounds like a good method, but i dont wanna work with heaps of arsenic salts, i kinda want to get it over and done with if
u know what i mean...
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Quote: Originally posted by mario840  | Why you make things so complicated ? just add your arsenic trioxide to hot 25% HCl , filter, and start adding SnCl2 in conc. HCl , stir and heat to
little boil for couple minutes, very clean arsenic will be at the bottom of baker, wash with hot water, alcohol and then ether and dry.
2AsCl3 + 3SnCl2 ---->2 As + 3SnCl4 |
Arsenic trichloride is a nasty compound because it's volatile. It's not that easy to do such an experiment. You wrote it as it's a cookbook dealing
with eggs and flour. What ever happened to stoichiometry? This is inorganic preparative experiment, not a demonstration.
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yeah thats what i was thinking, ive looked it up many times and it looks like a very bad salt of arsenic, thats why i suggested my method because it
reduces it directly to As and ill just clean the As with HCl to get rid of the Lithium oxide
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hahahahha in this process you generate AsCl3 in situ and there is no need to purify this compound by destilation in matter of THAT fact it's like
boiling egg, every person who dealing with arsenic compound i think is aware of dangerous and should have proper equpiment etc. etc. flask and
condenser with ice cold water will do the job try to minimalize volatile of AsCl3 and then adding SnCl2 give very fast, very pure compund.
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so you reckon my way is a viable route to getting arsenic? may not be the purest way but its safer dealing with AsCl3
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I found this equation on Wikipedia:
H3AsO3(aq) + 3 H+ + 3 e− As(s) + 3 H2O E(V): +0.24
Arsenous acid is formed by slow hydrolysis of arsenic trioxide (should be faster in hot water with good stirring), so I think there is no need for an
intermediate of AsCl3.
The reaction should be as follows:
2As(OH)3(aq) +6HCl +3SnCl2 ---> 2As(s) + 6H2O + 3SnCl4.
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Messing with arsenic????
You guys out of your collective minds? Someone who obviously knows precious little about chemistry should stay miles away from any arsenic compound.
Unless of course you want to create a potentially lethal HAZMAT case for yourself and possibly die in the process.
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| Quote: Originally posted by blogfast25 | Messing with arsenic????
You guys out of your collective minds? Someone who obviously knows precious little about chemistry should stay miles away from any arsenic compound.
Unless of course you want to create a potentially lethal HAZMAT case for yourself and possibly die in the process. |
doing this under certain conditions, knowing the dangers, knowing what can happen and all that, im sure if we know all that, then we can maybe preform
it saftly
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| Quote: Originally posted by Chemistry Alchemist | | Quote: Originally posted by blogfast25 | Messing with arsenic????
You guys out of your collective minds? Someone who obviously knows precious little about chemistry should stay miles away from any arsenic compound.
Unless of course you want to create a potentially lethal HAZMAT case for yourself and possibly die in the process. |
doing this under certain conditions, knowing the dangers, knowing what can happen and all that, im sure if we know all that, then we can maybe preform
it saftly |
Yeah, make sure to pour some napalm on it too...
Nutcase.
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Well, the reaction can be done using minute quantities and is safe.
2H<sub>3</sub>AsO<sub>3</sub> + 3SnCl<sub>4</sub><sup>2-</sup> + 6Cl<sup>-</sup> +
6H<sup>+</sup> → 2As<sub>(s)</sub> +3SnCl<sub>6</sub><sup>2-</sup> + 6H<sub>2</sub>O
(it doesn't matter how you choose to write the first reactant)
If you don't have arsenic trioxide, you can use any alkali arsenite.
You get a brown powder. It's a classic experiment from analytical chemistry and it's done in a test tube by adding drops of aqueous arsenite solution
in aqueous tin(II) chloride solution.
I have maybe a pinch of arsenic made this way.
The important thing is not to mess with it afterwards, like burning it outside of the fumehood, heating it in chlorine, etc.
Arsenic is one hell of a poison, so I really don't reccomend doing this if "you found this equation on teh interwebs".
Just let it stay in your element collection.
Does anyone know what kind of allotrope is this? It might be black, but fine powdered, therefore brownish.
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| Quote: Originally posted by Chemistry Alchemist |
doing this under certain conditions, knowing the dangers, knowing what can happen and all that, im sure if we know all that, then we can maybe preform
it saftly |
You don't know the dangers and im sure you can not do this safely. I'm not insulting you even though I really want to because I fear, from reading
your last few post, that you are inches away from killing yourself. Your method sounds a lot LESS safe then the one offered to you in this thread
because you will be dealing with a heated salt that will more then likely vaporize when the Lithium startes to catch fire. Now you will have an entire
area down wind contaminated with the Arsenic salt you where to afraid to work with.... kid, buy what you need for your element collection this time
because your gonna get hurt or someone else will.
Knowledge is useless to useless people...
"I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes. The fall of Rome, the fall of Germany — the
fall of the ruling country, the people who think they can do whatever they want without anybody else's consent. I've seen this story
before."~Maynard James Keenan
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| Quote: Originally posted by Endimion17 | | Quote: Originally posted by mario840 | Why you make things so complicated ? just add your arsenic trioxide to hot 25% HCl , filter, and start adding SnCl2 in conc. HCl , stir and heat to
little boil for couple minutes, very clean arsenic will be at the bottom of baker, wash with hot water, alcohol and then ether and dry.
2AsCl3 + 3SnCl2 ---->2 As + 3SnCl4 |
Arsenic trichloride is a nasty compound because it's volatile. It's not that easy to do such an experiment. You wrote it as it's a cookbook dealing
with eggs and flour. What ever happened to stoichiometry? This is inorganic preparative experiment, not a demonstration. |
I think you could make a James Marsh reaction.
As2O3＋6Zn＋12HCl＝2AsH3＋6ZnCl2＋3H2O
and arsine isn't very durable.Arsine is gas in normal temperature,so you can make arsine go through the glass pipe,and heat the glass pipe up.Then
arsine will decompose to creat arsenic and Hydrogen.
But arsine is very dangerous,so you need some defence equipment.
This way is much cheaper and easier.
[Edited on 25-8-2011 by zhaokenb]
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Should we speak out or just let Darwin work his magic?
Knowledge is useless to useless people...
"I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes. The fall of Rome, the fall of Germany — the
fall of the ruling country, the people who think they can do whatever they want without anybody else's consent. I've seen this story
before."~Maynard James Keenan
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| Quote: Originally posted by Sedit | | Quote: Originally posted by Chemistry Alchemist |
doing this under certain conditions, knowing the dangers, knowing what can happen and all that, im sure if we know all that, then we can maybe preform
it saftly |
You don't know the dangers and im sure you can not do this safely. I'm not insulting you even though I really want to because I fear, from reading
your last few post, that you are inches away from killing yourself. Your method sounds a lot LESS safe then the one offered to you in this thread
because you will be dealing with a heated salt that will more then likely vaporize when the Lithium startes to catch fire. Now you will have an entire
area down wind contaminated with the Arsenic salt you where to afraid to work with.... kid, buy what you need for your element collection this time
because your gonna get hurt or someone else will. |
Thanks for you concern, i do relies the dangers, im going to be doing this reaction in a closed vessel with 1 hole so any gas's produced will escape
and will not explode, and ill make sure its not windy when i do it
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You don't understand, you should not do it at all.
The method provided for you is immeasurably safer and given that you do not see the dangers and/or short comings in your method means your a huge
liability to yourself and those near you right now.
Knowledge is useless to useless people...
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fall of the ruling country, the people who think they can do whatever they want without anybody else's consent. I've seen this story
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"ill make sure its not windy when i do it"
Good, That way you may only kill yourself.
U.T.F.S.E. and learn the joys of autodidacticism!
Don't judge each day only by the harvest you reap, but also by the seeds you sow.
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Definitely another one intent on f*cking himself out of the genepool!
Relax, don't do it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPLrXFw76Qg
And with the money spent on cracking open expensive virgin Li batteries you could probably buy a nice ampouled sample of pure As for your
collection...
I strongly suggest also reading this SM thread, very related:
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=16067&...
[Edited on 25-8-2011 by blogfast25]
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| Quote: Originally posted by zhaokenb | I think you could make a James Marsh reaction.
As2O3＋6Zn＋12HCl＝2AsH3＋6ZnCl2＋3H2O
and arsine isn't very durable.Arsine is gas in normal temperature,so you can make arsine go through the glass pipe,and heat the glass pipe up.Then
arsine will decompose to creat arsenic and Hydrogen.
But arsine is very dangerous,so you need some defence equipment.
This way is much cheaper and easier. |
Marsh probe is for making arsenic mirror. It's for analytical, minute quantities and very impractical for any actual production.
The probe is used to show that a sample contains arsenic and not for getting arsenic.
It is ethical to speak. We are animals, but not just animals. 
| Quote: Originally posted by Chemistry Alchemist | | Thanks for you concern, i do relies the dangers, im going to be doing this reaction in a closed vessel with 1 hole so any gas's produced will escape
and will not explode, and ill make sure its not windy when i do it |
Ummm, no. Just don't do it. 
It should be windy, you should be upwind together with everyone and everything.
It's a messy reaction. Impractical and expensive. Spending elemental lithium instead of tin(II) chloride in hydrochloric acid solution? If you're that
rich, you ought to buy arsenic. And a fumehood.
No, really. Dude, don't do it. If you want arsenic, use the wet tin method. Otherwise, you'd probably get severely hurt.
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yeah i dont know if its happening now, i just put a tiny sample in water to see if it dissolved and it didnt >< plus! its a light pink colour...
not a white... but the label clearly says arsenic poison... you guys win... i guess u can all celebrate now.... illl just stick to the less toxic
reductions
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All this talk about arsenic made me want to transfer my silicon to a transparent vessel, after that I did it with germanium...
And when I was trying to shove my nice 2.2g germanium crystal into the vial, it fell from hand and into the bushes bellow (I was doing it there
because there was a bit of very very fine germanium powder that was prone to getting airborne).
Just wanted to share my "crappy incident of the day".
Searching for it yielded nothing, except for a few ants on my toes.
[Edited on 25-8-2011 by Mixell]
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| Quote: Originally posted by Chemistry Alchemist | yeah i dont know if its happening now, i just put a tiny sample in water to see if it dissolved and it didnt >< plus! its a light pink colour...
not a white... but the label clearly says arsenic poison... you guys win... i guess u can all celebrate now.... illl just stick to the less toxic
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You are the winner here if you don't do it. I know it seems like we were having a piss at your expense, but we were trying to prevent you from
applying for a Darwin award. Tough love.
Now maybe you will be around for awhile to learn from, and contribute to SM.
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Amidst the chorus of "don't do its", I looked around a bit and found another possible method. It's actually the very first way it was made:
"...discovery has been attributed to Albertus Magnus in 1250AD. He isolated arsenic when he heated soap and orpiment (arsenic trisulphide, As2S3)."
(Source - also mentioned on the wiki)
So another method would be to convert the trioxide to the sulfide by heating it with sulfur:
2As<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> + 7S → As<sub>4</sub>S<sub>4</sub> + 3SO<sub>2</sub>
(speculated reaction path)
Then, react that with sodium hydroxide to form elemental As. (Source: Handbook of Inorganic Chemicals, Patnaik)
Of course, I agree with everybody else: don't do it. Arsenic is really too dangerous to mess with. The fully aqueous chloride method above is the
safest option, but still quite dangerous. I just present this alternative for academic interest, and the interesting tidbit about its original
discovery. The sulfide method adds the additional danger of SO<sub>2</sub> of course, as if this needed to be any more dangerous.
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I guess this lady will have an extra hour off.
@MrHomeScientist: That is also messy, as elemental sulphur in almost all dry reactions tends to mess up the reaction mixture. That would require
excess sulfur, mixing (too complicated) and time. Not to mention one has to heat up a vessel full of the nasty trioxide, which sublimes.
Buy yeah, from an academic standpoint, it's nice.
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