Really it is very difficult. Immediately take it off heating and let it cool.

Potassium Chlorate Method 2 Youtube

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How to make potassium chlorate from matches. Add the potassium chlorate or red phosphorus to a tablespoon or less of glue at first. March 11th 2012 03 11 pm. I personally would not want to mess with it.

Although exact ratios are not vital to the success of this project make sure you add enough of either chemical to the glue to form a thick paste that does not drip. Potassium chlorate is a useful oxidizer and small amounts can be easily made using household chemicals. Suspended join date jan 2012 posts 649.

Start by boiling a large quantity of household laundry bleach at least half a liter until crystals start to precipitate. How to extract potassium chlorate from matches youtube 6. It is simple to make more of the mixture if you need it later.

While it s not the most efficient chemical reaction it s simple to make potassium chlorate by boiling bleach cooling it and mixing in a saturated solution of salt substitute in water. How to make potassium perchlorate from matches youtube. The synthesis works because potassium from the salt substitute displaces sodium from the sodium chlorate made by boiling the bleach.

Scrape off the heads and soak in water filter the solution concentrate and crystallise. I used this video as a reference for the experiment. I began the experiment by crushing around 50 match heads into a powder.

There is only a very small amount of potassium chlorate in each match head maybe a few tens of milligrams so you need to start with a lot of boxes of matches. As it cools make a saturated solution of potassium chloride. One easy if expensive and time consuming way to get potassium chlorate is through purification from match heads so i decided to try the process on a handful of matches.