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[*] posted on 4-1-2014 at 20:06
Sodium sulfate use?


Hi,
I made the titration of battery sulfuric acid that I bought with NaOH to find its concentration as it was not given (and found without surprise around 35,1% w/w). Having no burette I made the titration on large scale to compensate for the lack of precision so I now have quite a good quantity of Na2SO4, just slightly contaminated by a few drops of very dilute bromothymol blue.

I was wondering what I could use it for. All I found is that It could be used as a drying agent. Are there other uses? Thank you.
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[*] posted on 5-1-2014 at 00:59


None that I know of.
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[*] posted on 5-1-2014 at 10:17


1. Make alum : sodium aluminum sulfate.
2. Add it to Ca(NO3)2 to get solid CaSO4 and NaNO3 in solution
3. If you do #2, you can also do : CaSO4 + 2 C → CaS + 2 CO2

[Edited on 5-1-2014 by vmelkon]
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[*] posted on 5-1-2014 at 11:07


Thermal energy storage:

http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2010/ph240/barile2/

Or a smaller scale commercial example:

http://www.crazysales.com.au/revolutionary-laptop-notebook-f...
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[*] posted on 5-1-2014 at 18:59


The thermal properties seems really interesting I might try something with that one day. The 3 reactions does not give really interesting chemicals to me but it's good to know anyway, thank you !
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