How to make golden crystals quotGolden rainquot experiment
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It's raining gold! • For cool safe experiments to do at home sign up to MEL Science here: https://goo.gl/uaiWxh • Safety precautions • Wear protective glasses and gloves. Lead compounds are very poisonous! Don’t swallow the salts and solutions! Follow general safety recommendations. Chemical experiments must be carried out in full compliance with the legislation of your country. • Warning! Substances of this experiment are toxic and highly dangerous for your health. Do not try this at home. Only under professional supervision. • When a hot solution of lead iodide cools down, the salt settles in beautiful golden particles. • Reagents and equipment: • lead nitrate (0.3 g ); • potassium iodide (0.3 g); • acetic acid (~1-2 ml); • distilled water (500 ml); • two beakers; • flask (500 ml). • Step-by-step instructions • In different glasses, dissolve lead nitrate and potassium iodide in small quantities of water. Add a little acetic acid to the solution, to prevent its hydrolysis. Heat the remaining distilled water to ~80°С. Mix the solutions of lead nitrate and potassium iodide in a large flask. A suspension of a yellow sediment forms. Add hot water until the sediment dissolves completely. Let the solution cool. When it cools, beautiful gold crystals of lead iodide begin to settle. • Processes description • When the solutions of the two salts are mixed, an exchange reaction takes place: • Pb(NO₃)₂ + 2KI → PbI₂↓ + 2KNO₃ • The forming lead iodide is insoluble in cold water, but at a high temperature its solubility increases. So in a hot solution, precipitation is not observed. When the mixture cools, the solubility of lead iodide decreases, and Pbl₂ crystals gradually begin to settle.
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