necteur - 18-2-2023 at 14:31
Hi,
(This is my first post on the forum so I apologize if i am not in the right section and/or if someone has already answer to this question (i have made
some research but i haven't found anything).
After synthesising some sodium metal by the reduction of sodium hydroxide by magnesium catalyse by menthol. I was wondring if we could use the same
methode to synthesis other alkali metal by replacing the sodium hydroxide with potassium/lithium/rubidium/cesium hydroxide. On this page of the wiki, they say that it should work but it still seems untested (i think that because in the catalyst performance table their is
only a result for sodium).
Thanks
Texium - 18-2-2023 at 14:58
One of the longest threads on this forum is dedicated to potassium isolation: https://www.sciencemadness.org/whisper/viewthread.php?tid=14...
It predates the sodium procedure, and is in fact the inspiration for it. Cesium probably can't be obtained the same way, but with a home-made
apparatus, a good vacuum pump, and some inert gas, it can be distilled from a mixture of CsCl and lithium: http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=6981&a...
Please try searching harder in the future before starting new threads. I recommend going to Google and entering your query along with
site:sciencemadness.org to effectively find what you are looking for, because our built-in search engine is troublesome and not user-friendly. I'm
closing this thread because we prefer to keep discussions on topics consolidated rather than having many open threads covering topics that have
already been thoroughly discussed.