Electrolysis for beginners! Choose Hydrogen not Chlorine.
Electrolysis is cool! But if you want to try this amazing science at home, be sure to use the right materials. If you choose wrong, you will end up with some chlorine gas from electrolysis bubbling up right where you want oxygen... Typically the electrolysis of water produces two things, Hydrogen gas and Oxygen gas both of which bubble up from either diode. but we immediately run into a few problems, water is not very conductive so we need to add a material that will help electricity flow through the water. Magnesium salt is quite hardy and it is easier to break the bonds in water than epsom salt. Not so with NaCl (Table salt). Instead what is created is Caustic soda (Lye) in solution, and Hydrogen gas on one diode and Chorine gas on the other... YIKES! Really cool science experiment, but make sure you do it safely!
00:00 Intro to Electrolysis chemistry
01:02 The easy "science experiment at home" method you should try. (No chlorine gas)
03:55 Testing the easy method of electrolysis
05:24 The Dangerous table salt and water electrolysis method and explanation of what happens.
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1:21 - sorry to point this out, but the screws would act like an electrode, not a diode. A diode is an arrangement of doped silicon to allow for the passage of current in one direction. Although probably just a misused word (no fault, I do it all the time), I want to let the lesser-knowledgeable people in the comments to know this so they don't purposefully misuse the word. :)
Electrolysis is pretty cool! You can also use something like baking soda or sodium carbonate to improve conductivity if you don't have magnesium sulfate lying around. Another fun fact: sodium hydroxide will react with chlorine gas to form sodium hypochlorite, which is the main ingredient in bleach! The electrolysis of salt water is actually important enough that it has a name: the chloralkali process. The chloralkali process is used on an industrial scale around the world to make a good portion of the world's supply of bleach, so you just stumbled upon how bleach is made! Unfortunately, your method won't be very efficient; the industrial method collects and recirculates the chlorine that escapes to improve efficiency.
That is so cool! I probably ahould have invited you on the show for this one. So we will have to try again sometime.
Also it uses a membrane or a diaphragm
This, good job for knowing other electrolytes. Also I think most acids could work for electrolysis, like carbonic acid (coke)
Electrolysis is the coolest! Somewhere buried in my ‘to do’ list, if I ever get back to talking about batteries, I plan to talk about how electrolysis ‘recharges’ a car battery.
That's awesome! I would watch it.
Is that also what an alternator does? Actually curious😲
@@delizaaurora Essentially, yes. The alternator provides voltage to the battery to convert the lead sulfate that forms on the electrodes back into lead and lead oxide by means of electrolysis.
@@LifeMeetLightning Oooooh okay, thank you!😄
Such a great explanation as always, I love the way that you explain in a way that anyone can understand and the visuals are just awesome and always helpful! Yet another great video keep it up and congrats on 2000 subs!
My pleasure!
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Glad I checked this topic back out before I started. I forgot the mixture and was definitely going to use table salt. Thanks for the save
Lastly, imo there's no NaOH in your electrolytic solution - it's simply an 'uncharged' sodium hydrate in solution that's left after the sodium chloride has been split and the chloride has turned to chlorine gas whereas the NaOH in your packet has been processed and oxygenated or 'charged' through the application of heat during its production.
My lungs actually feel heavy. I just did it with salt water and I just realized salt is NaCl. It's been a good run lads.
If you increase the voltage or amperage will it increase the reaction.
You look like if Jesse from Breaking Bad listened Mr. White's during high school lol Thanks for the video!
Thanks for explaining the various discharges
Thank you so much I'm waiting this video from many weeks
Thanks for the idea for the episode. :)
Can I use CuSO4 with H2O?
What is your favorite experiment? I want to try them out. :)
Can you actually prove in an experiment or demonstration that water is made up of hydrogen and oxygen? Cheers!! I'll look forward to the video.
Have you tried with straight from the ocean seawater?
Dumping one barrel of bleach and one barrel worth of aluminum foil in a swimming pool. 🤣
Producing uranium......lol just kidding 😂
Make chlorine dioxide (used for water treatment in some countries)
What if you use Seawater?
I think salt water electrolysis is not very harmful as long as you do it in a well ventilated area like outdoor or under a fume hood and you don't go sniffing around the electrolysis cell. I have done it at home : )
Me too! This setup really came in handy in 2020 when the stores ran out of bleach.
Just curious, would using iodized salt mixture (54% NaCl 45%NaI and 1% other additives) yield any iodine when undergoing electrolysis?
Crazy!!! Another reason it is good to do lots of research before doing an experiment.
How about Baking Soda as electrolite ?
I thought you needed platinum for the anode to not oxidize.
Hi Johnathan, I was wondering if you could use electrolysis to remove a large portion of the salts and other impurities from the water/solution?, what sort of current, and what metals would best do that to be able to clump solids together for filtration?
I added table salt to water, and literally submerged the battery into the water, then the positive terminal, i guess corroded, with a brownish layer, the water turned grey and blurry and small greenish or yellowish algae like spots appeared to be floating on water, it smelled like gutter or something bad. Then as I got to know about this thing, i disposed the solution in the sink, but it was too late, and the battery never worked again... SO, NEVER DO THIS AT HOME, DO THIS WITH THE FIRST METHOD TOLD IN THE VIDEO.
Yo u were making iron hydroxide
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I have an idea for an experiment if you are up here not busy with life and still active with these very informative science projects. ... thanks. ... Let me know. ...
Questio what happens if ran table salt electrolysis inside no ventilation for abbout 5 minutes should i be concerned
How does NaOCl is generated using sea water electrolysis¿ in our chlorination plant, we electrolysis sea water with high DC current.
How do I make chlorine dioxide? (used for water treatment in some countries in place of sodium hypochlorite)
Does epson salt create more than 2 times the hydrogen because when I do it way more hydrogen is produced
Could we drop some large batteries into the seaports near Russia to gas them?
Or you could just use aluminum cans or any other aluminum you can find throw it in some water add some concentrated lime powder to the water then you have pure hydrogen at a much more rapid pace you end up with a byproduct of aluminum oxide that you can let dry then repurpose
Omg? You don't need that much of magnesium salt for that amount of water
I want to mention that Sodium Hydroxide is good for unclogging drains. Be careful though.
I tried it with pure water to avoid chlorine, i use aluminum as chathode and anode, what’s the white clouds in the water after electrolysis it for an hour and more?
Interesting, There shouldn't be any clouds if you were using pure water. Did the cloud condense to the bottom? Or just stay in solution?
Oh sorry, it was a Wells water now I change the water with distilled drinking water and there is no clouds anymore 😊
Cool, thanks for letting me know.
You are welcome
You forgot to mention you are making sulphate ions? Not just hydrogen and oxygen. And in some sense magnesium. I think the people that are electrolysis of table salt actually wants the chlorine. Ps. You actually most of the time need a stirrer. It is convenient for you and it makes you sure, you actually dissolves or mix things.
These are not diodes, but electrodes!
So it's chlorine that I inhaled earlier? 😵😵💫
Did it irritate your nose? Did it smells like a swimming pool? Did your breathing becomes difficult? Did you get some redness in your eyes? If you said yes to any of this, probably is.
YOU MUST MICROWAVE THE WATER one time for 5 mins. If u do is twice the water will explode and lose its energergy - by the time u read this I’ll be dead
Did you make it?
bruh i accidently made chlorine gas
If you use a solution of magnesium sulphate and obtain oxygen at the anode and hydrogen at the cathode to demonstrate water being split then why is it when you use a solution of sodium chloride you obtain chlorine at the anode and not oxygen which suggests you're splitting the electrolyte, not the water. I'm aware you state chloride ions are easier to separate but how do you know in the first demo you're splitting water and not the magnesium sulphate (MgSO4) which contains 4 x Oxygens!! Your entire video demonstrates to me that electrolysis only splits the electrolyte and breaks down electrodes, there's no water splitting taking place.
Does MgSO4 have hydrogen in it? I don’t know much science stuff so I’m actually curious where the hydrogen that formed at that one screw came from since water has hydrogen in it. If it was only the salt reacting or being split, what would the second gas be besides the oxygen that would come from MgSO4?
@@delizaaurora quote - Does MgSO4 have hydrogen in it? Absolutely because what binds the magnesium and sulphate together? If you think i'm wrong then have you got any ideas what binds the magnesium and sulphate together?
@@delizaaurora hydrogen produced could also originate from the cathode
@@PeterPete Nah I can’t say whether you’re wrong or anything since I don’t know much, I actually didn’t know what binds it together or that there was hydrogen in it, so yeah I don’t know much, just curious was all 😅
@@delizaaurora well mainstream chemistry says there's no hydrogen in MgSO4!! So what binds the magnesium and the sulphate together is anybody's guess! A covalent or ionic bond perhaps? Sure but that doesn't tell us much about what the bond actually is!
Or maybe do? Its a good way to make a bunch of chlorine.
THANK YOU SO MUCH my teacher does not teach and this really helped me 🙏🙏 and made it entertaining 🥹