Bismuth from Pepto Bismol

In this video I extract bismuth metal from pepto bismol, I also make some nice bismuth crystals.
I want to apologize for my only posting weekly videos lately, been having a hard time at a new job. My goal is to get up to at least two video posts per week, and I have a TON of good stuff in the pipeline if you have the patience to hang around.
Also, for you serious chemists, I know this vid is very elementary chemistry, but It was taking up 20gig on my PC and I filmed it 4 months ago so it was kinda time to get it out of the way. I'll be back with more advanced stuff soon :)
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[@photonicpizza1466]

Your videos scratch the same itch for me that older NileRed videos do 😄 Keep up the great work!

[@integral_chemistry]

Thank you so much, that means a lot 😁

[@keisisqrl]

A cool thing about bismuth being heavy, soft, and nontoxic is it’s used as an alternative to lead in shotshells for hunting. Nontoxic shot is required in some areas to protect waterfowl, because birds will eat stray shot, or just to reduce environmental contamination. Steel is a lot cheaper, but bismuth won’t chip a tooth if you bite it!

[@Gin-toki]

Bismuth is toxic. It has many of the same toxicological properties and effects as lead.

[@camman58vlogs98]

There’s a short supply of pepto bismol where I am. Maybe make a video making peptobismol from bismuth instead 🤣🤣

[@integral_chemistry]

I was actually looking into that! I had no idea there was a shortage though so maybe I'll fast track that project

[@originalmianos]

We can't get it at all in Australia as someone in the 6os thought it caused Reye's Syndrome.

[@sugarbooty]

​@@originalmianosdid they ban aspirin too? Not a stretch to believe it could cause Reyes as its derived from salicylic acid

[@originalmianos]

@@sugarbooty No. and yes, I know it builds the same as asparin. You think then regulators are dumb in the US, they are geniuses compared the the monkeys down here.

[@sugarbooty]

@@originalmianos toilets flush the wrong way around, too. Its weird down there.

[@michaelbrodsky]

I made heart shaped necklaces from Pepto a couple years back. I was gonna make a vid but it was soooooo messy. Had a bismuth accident and turned everything black 😂 Eventually got some of the washed powder into a crucible. The oxide can be easily burned off by blasting with a torch from above, then quickly dumping molten metal into mold and cooling rapidly. A few casts turned out ok, with the cool patina. It was fun, but time consuming and messy. Eventually I just bought some elemental bismuth offa Amazon. ❤

[@user-of4wp1hq8x]

Cool straightforward an understandable at any educational level good job

[@Drjtherrien]

I feel much better about my equally anticlimactic attempt at melting bismuth powder now.

[@integral_chemistry]

LMAO yeahhh it was definitely a disappointing final result

[@someperson8953]

Absolutely awesome!! Keep up the great videos.

[@integral_chemistry]

Thank you so much 😊

[@experimental_chemistry]

Nilered already did this beforehand but it was a joy to see you performing this extraction anyways. Bismuth crystals are always really nice. To prevent bismuth or other low melting but easily oxidizable elements from burning to their oxides you should do this in an inert gas atmosphere or simply under a thick layer of borax. Powders have to be dried thoroughly beforehand, preferably under vacuum. Bismuth based medications aren't freely available here anymore without a prescription. We can only buy some bismuth oxynitrate from our Eastern European friends like with so many difficult to obtain substances. Fortunately the non-medical possession and use is at least still legal here. It got my stock from the beginning of the 90s when it was freely available in every well-sorted drugstore.

[@integral_chemistry]

Wow of all things I would have never guessed bismuth is also controlled there.. Thanks for the advice though! As you saw in the video I have a harder time melting metal powder into solid metal than just about anything else (I just assumed bismuth wouldn't be quite so easily oxidizable) I do need an argon tank badly but it's tough to justify the cost, although increasingly it seems many of the projects I work on call for an inert atmosphere.. Also it seems like in the past when I've tried melting metal under a thick layer of borax, the borax melts into an EXTREMELY durable oxide that fuses to the metal itself.. any idea how to limit that? Argon I assume?

[@experimental_chemistry]

@@integral_chemistry Metal powders are generally difficult to melt. On the one hand, heat transfer in powders is worse than in solid bodies. On the other hand, air, moisture and increased surfaces support oxidation. It is not for nothing that hydrogen is produced by passing water vapor over glowing metal powders (usually zinc or iron). Inert gas can be used to exclude air, with nitrogen being cheaper than argon (but unsuitable for alkali and alkaline earth metals). A layer of hard-melting and inert salt is usually the simpler solution. Of course, the salt itself must also be free of crystal water. Maybe that was the reason for the problems with the borax. Only the m*dical use of bismuth compounds is restricted in Germany. You can get bismuth metal on large sales platforms, and bismuth oxide in online shops for pottery supplies. Subsalicylate and oxynitrate are only difficult to obtain because they could also be used m*dically.

[@AsmodeusMictian]

Awesome video, thanks! :)

[@GLITCH_-.-]

What did you use to reduce the bismuth oxide? Just hdrochloric acid again?

[@integral_chemistry]

Yep! Just plain HCl does it pretty quick

[@electroforce5624]

Lead from Mexican sweets

[@FloridaMeng]

Lit.

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[@petevenuti7355]

Aniline extraction? From what? 9:40

[@user-nw3mw7dr9n]

Hello, are you active on Instagram?

[@Psychx_]

As an NSAID, salicylic acid itself can cause gastritis and gastric- or even peptic (stomach + duodenum) ulcers. It kinda seems counterprodoctive to me to use this stuff to treat an upset stomach.

[@flomojo2u]

Yeah, working with molten bismuth is just the worst. Between the rapid oxidation, very poor thermal conductivity, and just awkward handling, it's my least-favorite metal to work with. Working with metal powder just seems like this whole miserable process on steroids.

[@justaguy1649]

stolen idea but good work

[@integral_chemistry]

Thank you! And yeah the biggest problem with the fact that I've never actually used KZbin to watch videos is that I'll have an idea only to realize too late it's already been done several times 😅 I actually recently did start checking first before starting new vids so hopefully there will be less of that lol

[@arjovenzia]

I dont see it that way in the slightest. a huge part of science is reproducing others experiments, or doing a similar thing a different way and comparing results. thats how the whole thing works... Great job Mate.

[@DangerousLab]

@@integral_chemistry Just keep doing what you are good at, as @arjovenzia said, science is about reproducing others' experiments, someone else's experiments or yours will eventually become the building blocks for others.