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Dealing with my mercury waste (Patreon)

Published:
2017-02-11 19:22:36
Edited:
2020-09-04 21:12:05
Imported:
2021-06

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This is kind of a 2 part series, because I'll be converting the mercury sulfide back into metallic mercury in a few weeks. This way, Ill be bringing the mercury full circle.

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Extracting Mercury from Contaminated Water

Over the years, I have collected a whole bunch of water based mercury waste. In this video, I will be recovering the mercury and disposing of the water. Nile talks about lab safety: https://youtu.be/ftACSEJ6DZA -------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nilered Youtube Membership: https://www.youtube.com/c/nilered/join NileRed Merch Store (NileRed Pin & Keychain): https://store.dftba.com/collections/nilered NileRed Website (Glassware & Beaker Mugs): https://nile.red -------------------------------- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nile.red Twitter: https://twitter.com/NileRed2 Discord: https://discord.gg/3BT6UHf

Comments

jason black

Pretty interesting. I'm curious to know whether the celite is any kind of problem in the conversion back to metallic Hg, or whether you can just ignore it and it'll float to the top of the mercury.

nilered

We will see. I don't think it will be a big issue.

Paul Grodt

I like this idea for a series. From time to time, I'll see the major YouTube chemists handwave the disposal thing. And as I understand it, that's reasonable because they generally use a commercial service to deal with it. But it certainly does tend to make me wonder what happens next to the substances in question. And I find myself wondering the same thing when I go to the county dump and see all the different categories of kinda-scary stuff that they accept. I did once get to see a facility that handles nuclear-waste vitrification. That's a super-fascinating process.

nilered
>>3902191

It would definitely be cool to see how the waste is processed commercially.

Anonymous

Love the video. Thanks for sharing. I still look forward to the N2O and plastics videos but I will take what I can get!

nilered
>>3905833

Haha, n2o! I forgot again...I'll look into making that the next one

Anonymous

Loved it! Honestly this is going to sound like a housewife dream but I wouldn't mind a video of your cleaning workflow for general items oh and how to synth sodium thiosulfate for pesky iodine stains lol

nilered
>>3914181

What do you mean my cleaning workflow for general items? Like cleaning glassware and stuff?

Anonymous

Thanks for this video. Waste disposal is important.

Anonymous
>>3914181

Yessir especially odd objects like condensers and frit filters

nilered
>>3914181

I have so much to do now, I am not sure I will. We will see though!

Alyssa Anderson

I have some mercury under oil, it's been pretty thoroughly shaken in the past so it's all broken up in tiny beads. I was wondering if you had any suggestions on getting it back into a single body of mercury?

nilered
>>3991344

Mine used to be under oil, so i can help. Just add water and shake the crap out of it. A lot of the oil will float to the top. That is the easiest method, but the results aren't perfect. Adding a very small amount of base (maybe 1M? I dont remember the exact molarity) can help. I have a video on cleaning mercury. It uses a combo of dilute NaOH and dilute nitric acid.

nilered
>>3991344

No problem. Just be sure to save all your mercury waste in a bottle!

Alyssa Anderson
>>3992694

What do you think of the idea of adding a little dish detergent? I've added the water, but there still seems to be quite a bit of oil adhering to the mercury.

nilered
>>4008858

The water also makes droplets that can kind of look like oil. I would suggest adding a small amount of water to the base over detergent. The detergent will take a lot of washing to get out

Alyssa Anderson
>>4009685

As for a base, would sodium bicarbonate work or do I need to go for sodium hydroxide?

nilered
>>3991344

Sodium bicarbonate is way too weak. You really need NaOH or KOH