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- From: nuke@reed.edu (Bill Newcomb)
- Newsgroups: sci.chem
- Subject: Re: free alkali metals
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.001014.19062@reed.edu>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 00:10:14 GMT
- Article-I.D.: reed.1993Jan25.001014.19062
- References: <1993Jan24.193457.7358@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR
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- aankrom@nyx.cs.du.edu (Anthony Ankrom) writes:
- >
- > Is there a practical laboratory procedure for obtaining free alkali
- >metals such as lithium and sodium from their salts? One example might be
- >electrolysis, but is the aparatus necessary for this easilly set up in a
- >lab?
-
- Not really. You need stuff like sintered iron or graphite crucibles. Not to
- mention the current supply, with appropriate overcurrent and thermal limiting.
- And a means to keep NaCl molten :-)
-
- I haven't ever had to actually buy sodium, as it seems to be omnipresent in
- most reasearch labs. I would wager that it's pretty cheap.
-
- Bill Newcomb
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