Gallium Reaction With Aluminium And Gallium Recovery

[@lowkey213]

During the time aluminum and gallium are in the water. Is there anything that’s toxic in terms of gas released? Other then hydrogen?

[@SciTyeTech]

No, just hydrogen gas.

[@stravs8097]

@@SciTyeTech If sodium hydroxide (caustic soda) is used instead of gallium, is there anything toxic (or corrosive) in the gas? Would it need to be scrubbed in an acid solution (such as vinegar) before running it into an engine?

[@mr3748]

Good day man, thanks for the video, I knew Galium letches into aluminum, however I never knew it is so simple to extract again... One question, I also know Mercury does the same thing with Aluminum, would you recover the mercury using the same method as to recover the Galium?

[@SciTyeTech]

Yes you can, but it is not as safe due to mercury vapors. You would need to do this in a fume hood.

[@bigchoppa783]

Get this man a space heater! Cool vid 👍🏼

[@SciTyeTech]

lol! That's what happens when I am in the garage during winter. Thanks for watching!

[@amadensor]

Would there be a good way to remove the aluminum oxide? Maybe a sieve that the gallium won't stuck to, then boil off the water? This might be a more repeatable process that could be automated.

[@SciTyeTech]

That's worth looking into. Best way and easiest way to remove the oxide layer is to scrub it off.

[@bravojr]

Vibration and steel wool

[@keandak7427]

Thank you for sharing this was very helpful my question is, how much gallium did you use?

[@SciTyeTech]

Thanks! I used about 50 to 60 grams.

[@JAllenKaiser]

Did you weigh the recovered gallium to confirm how much was recovered? That end-product doesn’t look like 100% of the original starting amount used… Either some Ga is converting to gallium oxide (Ga2O3) and being lost, or some liquid gallium is adsorbing onto the aluminum oxide particles’ surfaces, and not coalescing into the liquid mass being extracted, no? …It would be interesting and extremely useful to know how to recover 100% of the gallium, that way it *could* actually be used indefinitely in repeated cycles of Al-H2O reactions. …If there’s some Gallium loss each cycle, the reaction can only be repeated a finite number of times.

[@SciTyeTech]

Interesting idea! That can be something I can test.

[@MuhammadDaudkhanTV100]

Great full

[@SciTyeTech]

Thanks!!

[@Mynewhandle420]

Please entertain this very weird question🙌 If you pass direct sunlight through that liquid can someone be allergic to the light once it's passed through the liquid?💨

[@SciTyeTech]

That seems interesting. I am not sure how that would work other than the liquid blocking all light except UV light.

[@doggygaming950]

Is there any useful purpose to this? I thought it was interesting as a way to get hydrogen gas but you would need 10,000 plus lbs of aluminum just to heat a home for a year.

[@SciTyeTech]

Yes, to make hydrogen gas. And true, I would need a lot of materials.

[@sschevelle1965]

can you crystallize the aluminum back to solid by melting it

[@SciTyeTech]

I never tried this. It would likely work by electrolysis. Not really sure.

[@matthewshort3558]

Cool video man

[@SciTyeTech]

Thanks!

[@JoelBergmark]

It's a good process to do hydrogen gas I'm testing it at home after that study published 1 year ago, but seems you was 2 year before them. But anyway most seem to use electrolysis for the H creation in industrial scale of H-steel production in Sweden but that's a waste of energy so just casually thinking of this stuff and how it can be done more efficiently. Like blocks of GA and ALU, and I want to test if ferro fluid could be used to someone fuse it with the Ga:alu to use magnets to live around maybe in half water half cyclohexane solution to handle the oxidation somehow. or use magnet driven spinning propeller inside the ga:alu solution to rotate the oxidation to keep the H production longer, but just hobby enthusiast that like to think about stuff and test if possible

[@Dtr146]

I was looking for a way to non-destructively separate the aluminum oxide. I wanted to use gallium to create aluminum oxide so I can make thermite. Every method I found on KZbin so far before this one required destroying the aluminum oxide. If I would have had half the mind to think about just heating it up again I would have been okay.

[@Dtr146]

I forgot about the whole hydrogen gas part. I guess I'm going to react it in some beakers and use some balloons to capture the hydrogen

[@chemistryofquestionablequa6252]

You use iron oxide and aluminium powder to make thermite, not aluminium oxide.

[@OGBrettHarris]

That is pretty cool..

[@SciTyeTech]

Thanks!!

[@TheMaskedRacoon1]

Can you mix Gallium, Indium, and Tin and heat it in a beaker and keep it dry, then amalgamate it with Aluminum (while dry of course)? Then, add half of the Aluminum Galinstan amalgam to a beaker with water (H2O, Hydrogen oxide) and create Hydrogen, and the other half to a vodka (40% solution of Ethanol and Water) to create Hydrogen? To then see if they both create the same amount of Hydrogen provided there's more than enough water. I have a video where I produce Hydrogen from Galinstan and water 3 years ago, and another video where I mess up the production of ethanol water yesterday, but still managed to produce a little Hydrogen! 🥤💊🌮🍔🧅🍚 📿 🧀🍣(This one is eating fried striped bass)🐟🐀👽🤓🧠💡 Grab a beer! 😎👍🍺