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Limestone for CaCo3
I have read so many times that you can react Limestone with HCL to get calcium chloride. However none of these sites mentioned that there are
different types of limestone. Clean unbedded, clean bedded, some with magnesium carbonate others yet still with even more chemicals interlaced. So
is this an irresponsible suggestion.
I ask because where I live has a high concentration of clean unbedded limestone and was thinking about simply taking a spade and doing a little dig,
you know that's how chemistry was always done right? (although upon seeking a definition of all these terms on google I turned up nothing except
complex geological surveys with even more complex terminology), anyway, surely limestone can be of any purity and unreliable?
I am assuming that Calcium carbonate (that I have already made from my seashells) and sodium chloride is a more reliable method?
Oh and buying rock salt is not an option, since the little bit of rock salt that I have seems to be sodium chloride, albeit not for human consumption.
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Adding sodium chloride to calcium carbonate will not produce calcium chloride.
Calcium carbonate is often available from building suppliers or garden/lawn stores. It can also be prepared by adding a soluble calcium salt to sodium
carbonate, although since you haven't got CaCl2 I assume you have no other soluble calcium salts; the nitrate is sometimes available in agricultural
stores.
The best way of preparing calcium chloride, short of either buying it from a supplier or looking on eBay or looking in DampRid packs near you, is
simply adding calcium carbonate to the acid, the latter of which can be purchased from most hardware stores.
IMO, calcium carbonate is one of the basic chemicals (excuse the pun) that any lab should have in their stock.
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Hi Hexavalent, was that a typing error: sodium chloride to calcium chloride will not produce calcium chloride? I thought Caco3 and NaCl would give
you a soluble CaCl? anyway thanks. I don't have a basic lab yet but sure - trying to build one.
Hey just as an off-topic curiosity: "Nothing is a fact unless it can be proven." Surely not? The inability to prove something "Is" is often down to
the incorrect or misguided parameters by which we set out to measure something in the first place? So logically a "Fact" can still be a fact without
its empirical support?
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Adding calcium carbonate to sodium chloride does not produce soluble calcium chloride. Adding HCl converts the carbonate ion to carbon dioxide gas,
which escapes, driving the reaction forward. HCl destroys the carbonate ion so that the calcium carbonate can dissolve. NaCl does not.
Good luck in building your lab!!!
Debate!!!!!! One might be able to argue that for any fact that you say has no empirical evidence behind it, there is actually empirical evidence. I
wonder if it's possible to win the debate that way.
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Yes just goes to show how much I have yet to learn. I think I had better go to the builders!!
Mmm, I suppose that means that anything can be a fact, even cinderella, we just have to find the empirical evidence. But obviously that is silly,
that leaves everybody to claim anything is fact.
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Most limestone has significant Mg in it, not so much as dolomite, obviously, but it's very unlikely to be pure Ca. If the mixed alkali earth salt is
OK for your application, this won't matter. Otherwise you have a purification issue and possibly a separation one, if the Mg concentration is too high
to economically use the purification methods.
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Thanks watson, Mmm, precisely.
‘Calcination… is such a Separation of Bodies by Fire, as makes ‘em easily reducible into Powder; and for that reason ‘tis call’d by some
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If you want to make calcium chloride you can make it buying bleaching powder then heating it until it gives white precipitate. Important thing . This
process will not make calcium chlorate because calcium chlorate made by disproportion generally decompose to calcium chloride
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Buy a sack of hydrated lime at your local building store. It's literally cheaper than dirt and a convenient starting material for making other calcium
salts. While you're there, pick up a gallon or two of hydrochloric acid. If you want calcium chloride without the hassle of boiling down a solution,
pick up some damp rid.
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calcium oxide is obtained from calcium carbonate , How? Because I have plenty of that, and I do not need to buy the calcium oxide (Slaked lime)
A visit to the builders is coming soon, so we'll see what I can find. I have never seen Bleaching powder in Ireland Vikascoder. Regards.
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The calcium carbonate is heated to a very high temperature IIRC to produce calcium oxide and carbon dioxide gas;
CaCO3 ---> CaO + CO2
Note, however, that slaked lime is actually calcium HYDRoxide, Ca(OH)2.
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Ah of course should have known that about the slaked lime. So easy, heat the calcium carbonate - I should have guessed being that most oxides are
achieved, I believe, as a result of temperature changes as opposed to mixing with another ingredient.
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Yes, but it must be heated to a very high temperature to obtain this. This is why CaO is often referred to as 'burnt lime'.
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Yes 850 thereabouts - I have a torch that reaches 1000c so that should not be a problem, I assume heating in cast iron pot is ok.
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Yes, the torch can reach that temperature but the question is can it actually sustain such high temperatures on the calcium carbonate?
I can't be certain about heating in your cast iron pot, but personally I would try using a ceramic vessel and heating carefully to eliminate ANY
problems with the iron reacting with the air at those high temperatures.
I also assume that upon cooling the reaction product would have to be covered to prevent the extremely hot CaO from reacting to produce Ca(OH)2??
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Converting CaCO3 to CaO will be much harder than you think. Like Hexavalent said, even if your torch can go to 1500*C, can it heat up the vessel and
the carbonate to ~850? It will take a while and you have to have a way of covering it up so that it doesn't react with the water in the air while
it's cooling (I know I'm kind of just restating what hexavalent said but if I take this out my paragraph looks flaccid). That shouldn't be too
difficult though. The hard part is the heating and all the complications that go with it.
It's not impossible though and I hope you succeed. Let us know how it goes and avoid setting fire to living things or personal property. And wear
goggles. Damp powders have a tendency of "exploding" when heated quickly.
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Hi, yes you are probably right, I have the heat to do that actually with something else but containment is a problem. I am not going to make this
difficult on myself.
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Quote: Originally posted by Vikascoder  | | If you want to make calcium chloride you can make it buying bleaching powder then heating it until it gives white precipitate. Important thing . This
process will not make calcium chlorate because calcium chlorate made by disproportion generally decompose to calcium chloride
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I wish you had mentioned earlier that bleaching powder was calcium oxychloride!!!
I also see that it contains calcium hypochlorite, and that it is this chemical that when mixed with HCL gives you the calcium chloride, unfortunately
the Hydroxide - chloride - hypochlorite ratios in this product dont seem to make it viable? At least I really do not know what happens if you heat
this suff in a saucepan??
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‘Calcination… is such a Separation of Bodies by Fire, as makes ‘em easily reducible into Powder; and for that reason ‘tis call’d by some
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Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it. (William Penn 1644-1718)
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| Quote: Originally posted by CHRIS25 | | Quote: Originally posted by Vikascoder | | If you want to make calcium chloride you can make it buying bleaching powder then heating it until it gives white precipitate. Important thing . This
process will not make calcium chlorate because calcium chlorate made by disproportion generally decompose to calcium chloride
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I wish you had mentioned earlier that bleaching powder was calcium oxychloride!!!
I also see that it contains calcium hypochlorite, and that it is this chemical that when mixed with HCL gives you the calcium chloride, unfortunately
the Hydroxide - chloride - hypochlorite ratios in this product dont seem to make it viable? At least I really do not know what happens if you heat
this suff in a saucepan??
[Edited on 4-5-2012 by CHRIS25]
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Yes, heat bleaching powder, then dissolve the residue in water. Contaminants like Ca(OH)2 and CaCO3 will precipitate while CaCl2 will stay in solution
because it is very soluble. A filtration will separate the fairly pure CaCl2 from the impurities. If you want purer CaCl2 for more sensitive
applications, recrystallize, which basically means taking the CaCl2 solution, boiling it down until crystals form, then chill the solution and harvest
the crystals. Repeat for increased purity.
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Ah thankyou Welming. Now I have a choice... Do i do this, the bleach reaction or this one :
CaCo3+2HCL+H2O2
Could someone just check that I understand things correctly (I am still learning so need to double check my own understanding). I want to know how
much Calcium Carbonate will dissove in a 12 Mole solution of HCL. So I take the 12m and multiply that by a 1m CaCo3 divided by a 2m HCL? Answer is
well 6 moles of CaCo3. Am I doing things right here?
Having said that I may well do both reactions.
Thankyou
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| Quote: Originally posted by CHRIS25 | Ah thankyou Welming. Now I have a choice... Do i do this, the bleach reaction or this one :
CaCo3+2HCL+H2O2
Could someone just check that I understand things correctly (I am still learning so need to double check my own understanding). I want to know how
much Calcium Carbonate will dissove in a 12 Mole solution of HCL. So I take the 12m and multiply that by a 1m CaCo3 divided by a 2m HCL? Answer is
well 6 moles of CaCo3. Am I doing things right here?
Having said that I may well do both reactions.
Thankyou
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I'm assuming you're asking how much calcium carbonate will react with the HCl. As you can see from the reaction stoichiometry, one mole of calcium
carbonate will react per two moles of acid. So, if you were to use 1L of 12mol/L HCl, 6 moles of calcium carbonate would react (assuming a complete
reaction), as the ratio moles of HCl : moles of calcium carbonate is 2:1. As the molecular weight of calcium carbonate is 100.09g/mol, 6 moles equates
to 600.5g. From this, you can calculate the appropriate amount of calcium carbonate using simple ratios. e.g, if you use 100mL of 12M HCl, you would
use 60g of calcium carbonate, or for 175mL of acid, use 105.1g of calcium carbonate, etc. Essentially, the ratio moles of HCl : mass of calcium
carbonate is 1mol : 50g and, as already implied, the ratio for a 12mol/L HCL solution is 100mL HCl : 60g calcium carbonate.
You probably want the acid to be in excess, though, meaning you'd use slightly less calcium carbonate or slightly more acid than these stoichiometric
quantities, as it's unlikely to react exactly as you calculate it. You don't want any relatively insoluble calcium carbonate remaining.
Each mole of 'reaction' (i.e. for each mole of calcium carbonate) will yield one mole of calcium chloride. Using the above example of 100mL of HCl,
this would mean that you have used 1.2 moles of HCl (i.e. 1/10 of 1L of a 12M soln.) and 0.6 moles of calcium carbonate, so will produce 0.6 moles of
calcium chloride, which, if anhydrous, would have a weight of around 66.6g, as the molar mass of anhydrous calcium chloride is ~111g/mol.
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Yep that clears things up a bit. So just clearing my way a bit here:
In the following example: Copper and HCL for copper chloride. Cu+2HCL=CuCl2 So going with the 12m HCL still I worked this out:
6 moles of copper is 381g; to 1000ml HCL. Therefore: 38.1 g Cu + 100ml HCL gives me 11,1g of copper chloride.?.?
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Well said Adamsium. Chris, as I mentioned upthread you could try using a ceramic vessel for the heating.
Also, please use the edit feature as opposed to double-posting. The latter only serves to bolster your post count.
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| Quote: Originally posted by CHRIS25 | Yep that clears things up a bit. So just clearing my way a bit here:
In the following example: Copper and HCL for copper chloride. Cu+2HCL=CuCl2 So going with the 12m HCL still I worked this out:
6 moles of copper is 381g; to 1000ml HCL. Therefore: 38.1 g Cu + 100ml HCL gives me 11,1g of copper chloride.?.?
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No, not quite. A couple of things. First, my understanding is that elemental copper won't react with HCl in general. This would be due to elemental
copper having a higher standard reduction potential than hydrogen (0.00000V for hydrogen). Essentially, the copper is not able to be oxidised by the
chlorine as it is unable to displace the hydrogen since the hydrogen is a stronger reductor than the copper metal. You can find this information in
standard redox potential tables. You should be able to form copper chloride by using copper carbonate in place of elemental copper metal. You will
produce aqueous copper chloride, water, with the evolution of carbon dioxide gas. Just filter (probably not essential) and crystallise. Recrystallise
for increased purity.
Also, something is out with your molar masses. Just a tip for future use - from what you wrote, "38.1 g Cu + 100ml HCL gives me 11,1g of copper
chloride", can you now see why it is obviously wrong, without even calculating anything? If you were to completely react 38.1g of copper metal, ADDING
the mass of the chloride to it, you will see an increase in mass (of the copper 'compound' - initially elemental copper, then copper chloride), not a
decrease. You'd have to be doing some pretty nifty nuclear chemistry to do that (lose mass), in which case you wouldn't have copper-anything
anymore... but anyway. 
The molar mass of copper (II) chloride is 134.4g/mol (SI Chemical Data, 6th Ed). For the dihydrate, the molar mass is 170.5g/mol. Since the reaction
between copper metal and HCl is not going to happen, this is a moot point. Regardless, as shown, that reaction would yield 1mol of copper (II)
chloride per mole of copper metal used (assuming an excess or stoichiometric quantity of acid).
EDIT: I also found this. You may find it helpful and easier than redox potentials. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activity_series
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| Quote: Originally posted by Hexavalent | Well said Adamsium. Chris, as I mentioned upthread you could try using a ceramic vessel for the heating.
Also, please use the edit feature as opposed to double-posting. The latter only serves to bolster your post count. |
Hi Sorry, but what do you mean "double posting" I'm lost here. I always simply type a reply at the bottom or if I typed and posted and made a mistake
I simply use "edit" have no idea what I have done wrong?
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