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drachen A New Voice |
What iron oxide is better for thermite? (red or black) What is the fastest way to make them? |
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HMTD Factory Frequent Poster |
Black oxides sometimes have water in them, and are not as oxygen rich as red oxide, so the red one is better. There are a kind of "warm pouch" for sell in Use more water to wash away electrolyte (here's a tip, place a magnet outside the beaker to help iron stay at bottom, no filters needed), then heat the powder with strong heat, stir them so they don't block, |
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nbk2000 Moderator |
Take a very strong magnet inside of a plastic bag and run it over dry dirt or sand (river or ocean). There's plenty of iron oxide in dirt, free for the taking. ------------------ |
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VeHeMT Frequent Poster |
Hey everybody, I havent been online in a few days. Regarding the post, when I was younger I used to take a big magnet to the park and a plastic bag. I'd run the magnet over the sand(sand boxes around playground equipment etc..) then when there was too much on the magnet I would remove it by scraping it into the bag. I got several hundred grams of iron fillings doing this is a relatively short period of time. Another way would be to wet some steel wool and leave it in a plastic container for a while, works nicely. |
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Fjp92 Frequent Poster |
This is sort of a long and difficult way to make iron oxide but it sould be worth the trouble if large amount of iron oxide is to be made. Boil up iron metal(steel wool) in a acid(HCL) |
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Bandit Frequent Poster |
Heres a file i found on the web. Iron (III) Oxide the EASY way. You will need: 1) Add some ammonia or caustic soda to a jar containing water, the 2) Get your Iron sulphate tablets and crush them up 3) Add the tablets to the other jar and add just enough water to 4) Tip the contents of jar 2 into jar 1, now stir. What do you see? green shit in the jar. The green stuff is Iron 5) Filter the green stuff out, use jar 2 to filter the liquid into. 7) Filter out the green stuff (should be turning brown) 8) Leave to dry, by the time it has dried it will have turned brown/red Now wasn't that method much more simpler and quicker than hooking up If you want to do this on a mass scale, simply do the following: 1) Tip the fertiliser stuff into the first bucket, with some water to 2) Tip the ammonia into the second bucket. 3) Tip the first buck into the second bucket and stir 4) Filter and save the green shit. (Will oxidise compleatly in a few Carrying out either of these methods takes less than five minutes to Hope this helps Bandit |
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drachen A New Voice |
Thanks guys, im going to try the ammonia method, as soon as I get to the store. |
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nbk2000 Moderator |
I was at the hardware store today and saw a 5 pound bag of Iron Sulfate on sale for $5. The bag says it has a 19% Iron content (as Fe). At that rate, a pound of iron oxide should cost about $5. ------------------ |
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