the chlorates and perchlorates<\/a>” extremely useful. <\/p>\n\n\n\nI dont really intend to make super pure chlorates and perchlorates, as I mostly plan to use them as oxidiser for rockets. I also just find the process of making an oxidiser from fairly inert chemicals quite interesting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Originally, I made some nitric acid by distilling sulpheric acid and nitric acid together. This was then added to an electroplating bath with a graphite electrode and lead metal. In theory, the nitric acid is acting as a catalyst in this reaction because the production of lead dioxide produces nitric acid as a byproduct, allowing for further dissolution of the lead metal. This seemingly worked fairly well, so I might stick with it when making the larger electrode. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I chose to use lead dioxide rather than platinum or MMO because it works best for a simple one stage cell. Producing perchlorates with a platinum electrode will actually erode it over time. Lead dioxide is also simply cheaper to experiment with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For my “mark II” design im planning to use a polyethylene bucket as the main cell, as its lighter and cheaper than glass, but chemically resistant to the electrolyte, as well as the aformentioned improved electrodes. I will also need to get a better power supply, as originally I used an old computer PSU which quickly died, and I was unable to limit the current. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I also plan to get some more supplimentary chemicals like Indigo Carmine for detecting chlorates, and Methelyne Blue for detecting perchlorates. I found persulphate can help in the selective production of perchlorates. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Two years ago I tried making a chlorate electrolysis cell, which largely failed. I specifically was using a lead dioxide “one pot” type setup. This year, im going to try this project again by making a much larger lead dioxide electrode, and using a titanium plate instead of stainless steel. I found the website “the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.armadillosweaters.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.armadillosweaters.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.armadillosweaters.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.armadillosweaters.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.armadillosweaters.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.armadillosweaters.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"https:\/\/wp.armadillosweaters.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.armadillosweaters.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.armadillosweaters.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.armadillosweaters.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}