Making lithium hydroxide

[@evilferris]

3:20 25 g of lithium is ~ 3.60 moles. Reacted with water will liberate 1.8 moles of hydrogen gas. Since 1 mole of gas at 1 atm is about 24L at 20 degrees C, he made ~ 43.2 liters of hydrogen.

[@noxpopuli4821]

yoo epic stoichiometry moment

[@logc1921]

@@noxpopuli4821 I love moles.

[@noahhastings6145]

@@logc1921 MoléMoléMoléMoléMolé Moooooooooooole

[@logc1921]

​@@noahhastings6145 Mole Mole Mole Mole Mole Mole Mole

[@General12th]

@@logc1921 Just repeat that another hundred billion trillion times and you'd have a mole of moles!

[@MrStickyIggy]

future video: tips on cleaning labware after the procedures

[@extremelyfatguy807]

caros acid nuff said

[@littleskilletscribbles3106]

He does that now on his second channel, Nile blue!

[@jhyland87]

@@littleskilletscribbles3106 yep! also a great channel

[@rattlesnakz9716]

@@extremelyfatguy807?? Caros acid

[@AlbanianThrash]

KOH in isopropanol will clean pretty mush any glassware

[@user-rc9jf8ng2k]

Finally I can make my own antidepressants without having to pay. Thanks NileRed for your advice on making at home medicine!

[@n111254789]

100% solid idea absolutely nothing is gonna go wrong here lol. It's a mood stabilizer not an antidepressant though

[@dogcarman]

Well, more fodder for ChubbyEmu, methinks.

[@Chris47368]

Not sure if this post is serious (more on the side it is not and OP is very likely joking) but incase it is serious and for those who might be considering it: Im pretty sure your bodies lithium levels need monitoring while taking lithium based medicine....im pretty sure this is due to nephrotoxicity (kidney) and other issues related to taking too much lithium....not the best thing to be taking without medical supervision lol

[@TechnologyUncovered-b1i]

@@n111254789 bro i swear i got this a time ago

[@karolus28]

yes snort it

[@crispy8684]

never seen lithium macaroni before.

[@Eurotool]

Gray Kraft Dinner Mac & Cheese 😂

[@vagellan_8842]

Keep doing what you're doing! I love chemistry, and you really make it informative, and still interesting.

[@mheermance]

It seems strange that the lithium metal was cheaper than lithium hydroxide. I liked that you discussed how things don't always go smoothly. A big part of successful outcomes is just slogging through barriers and many videos don't include that.

[@leothecrafter4808]

The lithium ion is so small and light that the mass of the hydroxyl group makes a difference

[@NikeTao]

Your videos really make me want to go and get a degree in Chemistry now. Keep up the great work and thanks!

[@Eurotool]

4 years later. How did that go?

[@NikeTao]

@@Eurotool, not that I did, but still wish I would get one.

[@Eurotool]

@@NikeTao I'm glad you replied. Hope things worked out for you anyway!

[@zoeym9197]

@@NikeTao did you major in anything? im thinking of psychology or sociology

[@ammyvl1]

not really necessary for a lot of it. you can easily understand a lot of the stuff he says with just some high school chem, since none of it is extremely complex stuff, at least his earlier vids.

[@dots5641]

Why would someone be mad that you used lithium? Isn't it quite common? I mean, I can literally extract it from old phone batteries

[@NileRed]

+Dan Swoboda Some people find it hard to get and they like to use it for other things. Not just reacting it with water.

[@dots5641]

+Nile Red ok. Makes sense. Btw. How would you turn lithium carbonate back into lithium or the hydroxide?

[@NileRed]

Dan Swoboda It would be really hard. I dont think there is an easy way.

[@dots5641]

+Nile Red I was thinking adding carbon to the carbonate inside an airtight container. I do have a furnace. Do you think that could work?

[@196Stefan2]

+Dan Swoboda No, this won't work. You cannot reduce alkali metal compounds with carbon, they are too "un-noble". By the way, Li is the most electro-positve element of the peridic table or the in other words least-noble metal. Maybe it will work with magnesium, like Mg can reduce many other metals (even Na and K), but this is extremely exothermic and requires a protective gas atmosphere of Argon.

[@ashW110]

NileRed Thanks for all your videos. You are doing some really good work. I was waiting for the second part of this video where you would make some lithium drugs. However, I realized it won't happen so I decided to try and make it myself. There is not much information available regarding this process, so it wasn't particularly easy, but it looks like all the processes were successful. If you are interested, feel free to take a look and let me know if I've made any mistakes. Thanks

[@NileRed]

Hey, I do plan to do it eventually. I skimmed through your video and it seemed pretty good! Do you have any plans for the carbonate?

[@ashW110]

Thank you very much indeed. To be honest, I don't have any plans for it future use, I have very insignificant amount, so I will just seal it and leave as a "trophy":)

[@hackerism1]

>people will get mad No, no we won't. We love chemistry and its even better when we don't have to pay for it.

[@youtube.commentator]

>greentexting on KZbin

[@larsu1212123]

For people that (like myself) cant get larger amounts of Lithium than what they can extract from those lithium batteries, there is a third way of synthesis. You can start out with relatively harmless lithium carbonate, heat it until it decomposes to lithium Oxide and react that with water. basically like the production of cement from Calcium carbonate

[@robertkrumm1768]

Saw you were using a broken breaker and heating it. Super dangerous because when borosilicate glass breaks it causes microcracks and stress points that will cause failure with thermal cycling. Be safe and discard it. And just FYI to everyone, be careful with lab glass, I've driven two colleagues to the ER for lacerations because of compromised glass!

[@fabianfeliciani6785]

Robert Krumm BUT ITS NILES SIGNATURE BEAKER

[@Nick-cq7bz]

When you melt the Glas with a fire torch, the micro cracks also melt and you can use the beaker as before.

[@Andrew-my1cp]

Woah what the hell went wrong with your coworkers? If something is ER worthy it's either poisoning, burning, or shrapnel from an explosion.

[@rhysmorgan7027]

Andrew Villalobos sounds like the compromised glassware detonated, which would throw glass shards around the lab

[@xXponyinthestarsXx]

​@@Andrew-my1cp That's... just not true. As a child, I severed an artery in my hand by falling on a glass lampshade, which obviously broke. People also often go to the ER for injuries that may or may not be more severe than they seem, such as abdominal pain after a car crash potentially indicating internal bleeding. Further, I once took my father to the ER because he had a small (nearly microscopic) splinter in his eyelid which was causing severe pain and compromising his vision by scratching his lens.

[@attackoramic8361]

For some reason I really love Ionic compounds just because I like making up names for them and seeing if it actually exists

[@HiwasseeRiver]

Add a drop of HCl to a small sample of your LiOH powder. The amount of bubbles (CO2) will indicate the relative amount of carbonate contamination.

[@goodfeller2]

ur voice is oddly therapeutic

[@masoudnoushabadi717]

Thanks for your description of every task and thought you plan to do .

[@apburner1]

My lithium stash is solely dedicated to making met... oh ummm nevermind.

[@Psychaotix2001]

I know it's an "old" video now, but would it be possible to perform this under an inert atmosphere? I know you can buy welding-grade argon (usually 99+% pure) for relatively cheap but it's got a huge amount. Just make sure it's the pure argon cylinder, not a combination gas.

[@j2003]

ok

[@symbioticcoherence8435]

Really looking forward to Hydrazine Sulfate! ^-^ And also the acid on skin video, but mostly Hydrazine :)

[@ETllc]

with a smaller size Li particle you should be able to increase reaction rate

[@cypherf0x]

An amine is used to scrub CO2 in US submarines. Submersibles and rebreathers typically use soda lime based compounds.

[@lamamriaissa1165]

Your work is useful. Thank you. You deserve all the best. I really love you, your brother from Algeria

[@Shivachemist]

Cool video as always :-) the only alkali metal hydroxide gives off monoxide on strong heating (but in a current of hydrogen or in vacuum). So, it is better to prepare monoxide by burning the metal alone in dry oxygen (but it always contains some peroxide anyway). It can also be obtained by heating either Lithium carbonate or nitrate but again in atmosphere of hydrogen (to prevent the formation of peroxide)

[@sciencetestsubject]

also an idea to speed up the reaction, is to put the beaker in an ultrasonic cleaner, the sonics would probably break up the hydroxide coating.

[@derekrader1]

I’d like to see a lithium citrate video. Lithium citrate was added to soft drinks by pharmacists at soda fountains in the last century. I think those old soda pop formulas are fascinating chemistry like the ammonia coke and chocolate phosphate.

[@AgentOffice]

Cocaine Coke

[@breonapimental2830]

I'd love to see the Luminol one

[@oshavlfarms7239]

Dude go to a welding supply place and get a large cylinder of argon, then setup a low regulated flow and aim the output. Super cheap and useful.

[@vishva8kumara]

It is quite stable for a metal on the same column as Sodium and Potassium - no wonder they use it on mood stabilizers.

[@georgegibbens9356]

I like The Mistakes like you said I like the REALISM GREAT VID! KEEP THEM COMING (OH OH OH !)

[@شاهينحسن-ن5ز]

Instead of dropping lithium into water you can drop water into lithium slowly. I made in my home perfectly dry lithium hydroxide using this method

[@atdit]

Children in africa could have eaten this lithium

[@pinksapphire2898]

😂😂

[@MuzikBike]

They probably aren't as depressed as the richer countries

[@speciamdoesntdraw1052]

@@MuzikBike A lot of them are way more depressed and a lot of them aren't as depressed.

[@jhyland87]

they still can

[@archkull]

@PrettyNeckslashes If they are in rich or just in middle class parts of Africa, they likely say things along the lines of "There are people who can't afford this.", and if they in poor parts of Africa they'll likely say "Who knows when we'll get this next" or some variation of that.

[@SusanWojcucki]

Ooh, debunking pseudoscience. This world needs that desperately.

[@hwgden]

Agreed

[@Spycyzygy]

+SubscribeToSyndicate The video he did is super funny look up "Nile Blue" and it's there

[@uxleumas]

@@Spycyzygy only one video though. super funny though

[@naturegirl1999]

Which video does he debunk pseudoscience? Also what pseudoscience is debunked?

[@greengrowlocks566]

Here is great demonstration of the LiOH, It would be cool to see you do a small scale "Colex" process for enriching the Li-6 isotope using a mercury lithium amalgam and lithium hydroxide.

[@Lucius_Chiaraviglio]

If you boil the lithium hydroxide solution under cover with only a small hole for steam escape, the steam will displace all the air so that not much chance is available for carbon dioxide to react with the lithium hydroxide. Likewise when you are drying it in the oven.

[@HiltownJoe]

if you go for the boiling route, cant you just set it up like a simple destilation but just vent the steam. That should fill the boiling vessel with steam and displace all co2 from the air.

[@derrickbecker9856]

Demonstrate capturing CO2 using aqueous LiOH and bubbling in air. Measure pH change as it goes to carbonate form

[@kjpmi]

Lithium Carbonate in actually the salt form that lithium is in when it's used as a prescription. It comes 150mg to 600mg in regular and extended release tabs. (I don't take it, I'm just familiar with pharmaceuticals)

[@kjpmi]

sensus , recreational use of lithium? No don't do that. There's a very narrow therapeutic window and it can quickly become toxic. And the side effects can be rather harsh even at normal doses.

[@pirobot668beta]

Taking 1800mg Li-carbonate daily. Got to watch my water intake; too much water and Li concentration in blood drops, too little water and Li spikes. Add to this some liver and kidney damage...my Doc says every year I use Li therapy = life shortened by one year. Huh...don't take it, live longer and watch my quality of life crash or take it and live a better but shorter life. Which would you choose?

[@alfarabe1564]

I was interested when Nigel said that lithium peroxide does not only suck co2 but also liberates o2 which is similar to the photosynthesis of plants.Pretty cool right.

[@ericasuberban6936]

Wow, You make such fun videos! Thanks for shareing :)

[@adamantris2]

luminol and nitrous would be neat!

[@andrewlorick166]

xylene isomerization would be cool. It's used a lot in industry

[@SelinicaHarbinger]

As an oxygen generating scrubber, does it have anything in common with the processes that make the oxygen generating candles work?

[@timothyfeldhaus297]

They use LiOH in industry in systems to hydroscopic remove moisture from air in systems that need specific moisture content.

[@pacificcoastpiper3949]

I think the easy way around the co2 problem is a vacuum desiccator

[@krystianmazgajewski1663]

Dude it would be cool to see a solvated electron reduction one day. Or even a Lindlar reduction! (honestly the electrons would be cooler).

[@skankinwitch5180]

lithium carbonate is the salt used for bipolar disorder. My father and I take it (although my dad is on a massive dosage of 1200 mg)

[@Sevenigma777]

Man I miss these kinds of vids from him

[@OkieDokieSmokie]

Should've put it in a vacuum chamber to dry it. Less exposure to air, less contamination. Wouldn't be as fast but would've helped.

[@ThePbatemon]

We use this at work in the production of grease

[@David-fh6rr]

if you dry LiOH in the oven, doesn't it form Li2O ?

[@WillThat]

Could you rig up some way to purge it with argon when vacuum filtering if you didn't want any contamination?

[@TheVonMatrices]

I want to see the effects of acids on skin. I'm assuming that since you are still releasing videos, you still have two working hands. In my organic chemistry class, the first time I handled concentrated sulfuric acid I didn't use gloves because the lab assistant had previously talked about how sulfuric acid would eat through gloves. When he discovered what I was doing, he reprimanded me and instructed me to use gloves for subsequent experiments. However, I always wondered what actually would have happened that one time if I had made a mistake and spilled the concentrated sulfuric acid on my hand.

[@Mister_Anarchist420]

As someone who takes bipolar meds all my freaking life.... I've always been interested in what im puting into my body on the daily the government makes me take so please do make a video on making bipolar medication and maybe perhaps antipsychotics? I take quetiapine generic form of Seroquel but im sure you probably know that.

[@krystianmazgajewski1663]

If not, I totally cast my vote for acrolein, the toxic metabolite of cyclophosphamide in the body which causes hematchuria from hemorrhagic cystitis. The antidote is mesna.

[@welcometolimbo4597]

love your videos!

[@KnakuanaRka]

What about heating the water? That would greatly increase the reaction rate and the LiOH’s solubility. Or are you concerned about the reaction going out of control? Also, evaporating sounds like a way better idea; vacuum filtering is going to result in a massive amount of carbonate conversion, since you’re actively pulling a lot of air through the lithium, compared to evaporation, which only exposes the surface.

[@196Stefan2]

I never thought that LiOH was so poorly soluble into water, that if forms a crust around the metal. NaOH and KOH are easily soluble in concentrations of > 50% w/w (these commercially available concentrated alkali hydroxyde solutions appear like a kind of syrup).

[@Lunas2525]

if you had lithium powder or finer turnings you might have had fewer issues. I suppose the only way to avoid lithium carbonate would either be vacuum chamber or perhaps a blanket of argon...

[@Keldor314]

Really even just doing in in a blanket of nitrogen would work. All you have to do is somehow prevent CO2 from getting in there.

[@alexi3489]

+Keldor314 Lithium actually reacts with nitrogen. However, it would still work because the trace amounts of reduced nitrogen becomes ammonia when it hits water.

[@mrchangcooler]

Hey, do you think you could try extracting caffeine from coffee with a soxhlet extractor? If not make a video about it, at least comment on how it went if you do try it?

[@scottbruner9987]

Idea: Would it be worth it to do the oven drying step by filling the oven with argon? That would reduce the carbon dioxide contamination a little bit.....

[@Gravity4220]

A pre grind would of helped out a lot.

[@777swampie]

What about building a glove box. If you fill it with N2 , then the vacuum filtering would not contaminate your product. I built one with PVC pipe as the box frame and covered it with PVC sheet from Walmart. The PVC pipe joint glue works for sticking the sheet to the frame.

[@floorpizza8074]

When KZbin recommends a six year old video.... and you don't even mind, 'cause it's NileRed.

[@JohnF-z7o]

When youtube recommends an 8 year old video and don't mind because it's nile

[@imsowhiteandnerdy25]

I'm no chemist.... just curious, since you were worried about co2 exposure, would shielding it with nitrogen or argon be beneficial?

[@gibbyace5077]

Jerry pricey

[@General12th]

@@gibbyace5077 Not just very pricey, but Jerry pricey! That's how you know it's expensive!

[@editname6868]

Step:1 put lithium in water Step:2 remove the lithium Step:3 boil the water Step:4 there ya go

[@kingofthend]

That warning sounds like a promise.

[@StinkySneakerz]

pretty cool, it might be pretty interesting to see you make. sodium hydroxide as well.

[@StinkySneakerz]

I'm guessing maybe performing electrolysis with sodium chloride and water could be away. am I right? if so, it would be a pretty interesting, cost effective and easy video idea.

[@Atomos95]

+Nile Red The contamination isn't a problem... Also sodium hydroxide is full of carbonate. Just a titolation and u can use it. :)

[@dROcITYkING11]

Thank you

[@MxC1337MxCsh43d]

Dude, you should totally show us how to make nbutyl lithium... That would be awesome.

[@NileRed]

+scarheavyfox I would prefer not to die :p

[@MxC1337MxCsh43d]

+Nile Red What about Fluoroantimonic acid? What's life without a little risk? Hehe..

[@dumisanemsipha404]

@@NileRed pliz i need yo contact

[@7moodikillerxx388]

Imagine getting yelled at bc u wasted lithium metal

[@spuddo123]

I think I see the business model here. NileRed makes videos about how to make deadly chemicals at home, and ChubbyEmu gets content.

[@abstractdonut948]

Hey, Nile. Do you plan on doing a video on making lithium carbonate in the future?

[@John_Stick]

Watching this 5 years since this was posted

[@siyabongabeizelmdluli9982]

thanks for the video..can you also do a video on the reduction of esters using lithium aluminum hydride as reducing agent

[@chrisk4357]

calcium acetate plox! btw, the best video that I can find on how to make lithium hydroxide. .. Question: hey is lithium from lithium alkaline batteries pure ?

[@NileRed]

+Chris thelordkoukoulet It is "more or less pure." It will be covered in a little bit of electrolyte, but definitely more than useable in any reaction that I can think of.

[@gary.richardson]

A heated ultrasonic tank could house the beaker to maximize the transition to complete saturation.

[@InDmand]

"things don't always go the way that you wanted" fkn ae, this is me whenever i think my preparation is fullproof.

[@thenewbgamer6416]

*foolproof

[@hypnosstratagem1277]

Great video. What types of batteries can you extract lithium from?

[@pinksapphire2898]

energizer ultimate lithium phone and computer old batteries rechargeable lithium batteries or anything that says lithium ion on it

[@hypnosstratagem1277]

Seth Black Thanks.

[@ewantaylor258]

Mainly lithium batteries.

[@travisschiewe8547]

What do you know about converting Lithium Hydroxide/Carbonate back to Lithium metal ?

[@johnlbales2773]

Big fan! Thank you for your understanding & skill. Is there a use for the hydrogen gas beyond a combustible?

[@morpheus_9]

A reducing agent

[@HeisenbergADHDScienceAndMore]

Make a video about making lithium bromide!

[@Rin-qj7zt]

Why not just submerge the vacuum filter in a heavy nonreactive gas to prevent loss?

[@CAoffRoading]

for the second method you used to precipitate out the lithium hydroxide, would it not make sense to use a heavier than air inert gas, several types can be procured cheaply from a welding supply, and for the subsequent filtration if purity is an issue use the same or other inert gas to filter it under pressure rather than a vacuum. for the final water removal would freeze drying under a vacuum make sense? I have a very limited knowledge ofchemistry however I value knowledge and enjoy your videos and as an over the road trucker I have no shortage of time for pondering of things like this.

[@spagsauce]

ngl thid video is really lit 🔋

[@gummel82]

Acid on skin please! You already mentioned it two videos ago

[@Agustx0]

Oh yeah, pls do it Nile Red!

[@TheGuerrCZ]

Acid, acid, acid ...

[@TheGuerrCZ]

+TheGuerrCZ JUST DO IT!

[@broxyklonx9685]

+TheGuerrCZ he did it

[@TheGuerrCZ]

Yes ?! I know!! Look at the date, i posted the comment -.-

[@spookywizard4980]

Couldn't you have filled the beaker with inert gas once in a while? Or even oxygen? Some gas to prevent CO2 from reacting with the lithium

[@Masto_420]

It makes hidrogen so im making engine for fun and i have potasium from bananas but i heard that ignites

[@chrisp7641]

They need to make those into a practical use. Turning CO2 into a clean O2 source.

[@andriuchaMetal]

So... Why not grind the lithium bits into smaller particles?

[@MelindaSordinoIsLiterallyMe]

Why are some compounds from sigma-aldrich so expensive? How do you manage to put out so much Videos?

[@sb-knight]

Thanks, man I have been looking for a source of this and its so damn expensive for what it is!

[@StanislavG.]

8:23 - The right beaker is looping :)

[@roywang7414]

May I ask, after 4 years :), where does the blue color comes from? The lithium hydroxide covering the lithium in a saturated solution of water; I don't think anything in the reaction is blue, except lithium in ammonia solution (which even then is not the lithium ion being colored, it's the solvated electron)

[@HyperionNyx]

At 7:27 you say the answer to the problem would be use more water... surely it would be to used powdered LiCO3?

[@bpark10001]

Why not do the boiling in an Erlenmeyer flask with a one-hole stopper in it, and boil to dryness. The escaping steam will not allow CO2 to enter. Does LiOH attack glass?

[@gozitanmontainbikegoprorid5261]

hey nile can you make a vid on how to nitrate toluene

[@laffle9138]

I thought the strong alkali like LiOH could react with glass.

[@reechasingh6966]

Molten sodium hydroxide can react with glass lithium hydroxide cannot

[@Cobaltophobia]

NaOH will react with glass in its molten form or if it’s boiling and In contact with it for extended periods of time

[@andrewgarcia4346]

wouldn't it have been easier to use sheets of lithium sliced in pieces?

[@billsmathers7787]

Wouldn't it have been faster to simply burn the lithium metal on air, and then add water to convert the lithium oxides and nitrides to hydroxide and ammonia?