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Barium: Barium Oxide Heated with Aluminium at 1200 °C in Vacuum (Guntz, Thorpe 1912)
Aluminium pulls the oxygen from barium oxide at 1200 °C. In a vacuum the freed barium boils off and condenses as metal in the cool end of the tube.
Result: silver-white barium, up to 98.8 % pure. It burns easily in air; Thorpe keeps barium in dry carbon dioxide.
Source: Thorpe, Dictionary of Applied Chemistry vol. 1 (1912), p. 418, after Guntz. Not given: the tube, amounts and time. Picture drawn by Youblob.
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Mix oxide with one-tenth aluminium
Mix oxide with one-tenth aluminium
Weigh barium oxide and mix it with one-tenth of its weight of aluminium. Ours: aluminium powder.
Materials for this step:
Barium Oxide1 as requiredTools needed:
Aluminium Powder
Precision Digital Scale — 0.01g
Stone Mortar and Pestle2
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Heat to 1200 °C in vacuum
Heat to 1200 °C in vacuum
Heat the mixture to 1200 °C in an evacuated tube. Ours: a porcelain tube in a tube furnace on a vacuum pump. Barium vapour attacks glass; in his other method Guntz lines the tube with nickel foil.
Tools needed:
Porcelain Tube
Tube Furnace
Pyrometer
Vacuum Pump3
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Collect the metal from the cool end
Collect the metal from the cool end
The barium condenses in the cooler part of the tube. Take it out and keep it in dry carbon dioxide; it oxidises fast in air.
Tools needed:
Porcelain TubeMaterials
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