Making Uranium Tetrachloride out of my Rock

In this video I bought a rock containing uraninite, the mineral formation of uranium dioxide. I convert it into uranyl nitrate and then into uranium(IV) chloride with hexachloropropene, which I made myself. I will use the uranium(IV) chloride to make an air stable uranocene derivative in another video.

[explorer]

Oh yes. I would love to see more radioactive chemistry. Maybe Americium from smoke detectors? :)

[jordoncailifours]

Good to see that you finally got a high yield, higher than literature. Maybe this is the start of your redemption ark and you become the king of high yields. Love the vids, Keep up the great work.

[markb]

The only thing better than dealing with a powder of a heavy metal is dealing with a powder of a radioactive heavy metal

[dbdbdb]

Awesome chemistry. You were well advised to choose uraninite as it is often highly radioactive. Thing is you purchased a quality piece for mineral collectors and paid the price. Recommend bulk uranium ore.

[slipstream]

"I don't plan on inhaling any of it" Remember to always test your homes for radon, I took my Geiger counter to my HVAC air filter and got counts per min over 1000, which is pretty much only from the beta decays of bismuth and lead 214

[Paksusuoli]

Got to watch this before the glowies make it disappear.

[lolroflpmsl]

Nice to see some U chemistry. You've probably got some other metals (lanthanides, other products from spontaneous fission, in addition to the decay products) from the rock dissolved in the nitric acid, though. Would've been better to purify the U nitrate with TBP extraction (5-30% in n-dodecane or kerosene) first to remove all the other crap, then back extract with dilute nitric, precipitate as ammonium diuranate, calcine that to UO3, THEN react that with the hexachloropropene, at least that's how we do it sometimes. If you're not too fussed about the other elements present in the rock to start with, you're probably OK, but the purification I outlined there should get rid of most of the extraneous crap.

[digvijaysinghrana]

FBI guy in the van. I'm just watching out of curiosity ok

[jimmarshall]

Love these videos - I studied chemistry at university and spend a few years working in a lab - its amazing how quickly you forget it all when you're not practicing it!

[williambouthillier]

Man I have to say, all your chemistry projects are really amazing and stand out of what I usually think of when I think about home chemistry and youtube chemistry channels

That being said, its a huge yes for me in favor of the organothorium synthesis project!

[RhoGamingYT]

This is one of my favorite video in your channel :)

[tophbeifon]

Thorium chemistry videos are extremely rare. A thorium video would be very nice.

[libyanmapping]

Those are absolutely massive yields, good job!

[mcwolfbeast]

Would love to see some Thorium chemistry next!

[detaart]

That looks like a lot of work man. Was it worth it? Did it taste good?

[HeartCell]

A very beautiful compound, indeed. Paint a painting with it and give it to someone you hate.

[anestis]

Dude your channel is so underrated, your videos are so good.

[exan]

yes radioactive chemistry is amazing, love your stuff man

[morgan]

those are such beautiful green colors. i’m curious what some other radioisotopes look like

[Jaymic]

Tell the feds I said hi when they show up at your place