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Specialty Chemistry Forums => Citizen Chemist => Topic started by: ilya49 on May 03, 2004, 04:54:31 PM

Title: Extracting Potassium from potassium Iodine solution
Post by: ilya49 on May 03, 2004, 04:54:31 PM

Can it be done? If yes, then how, and if it would be mixed with NO3? will it make the same effect as pottasium Nitrate?

Title: Re:Extracting Potassium from potassium Iodine solution
Post by: hmx9123 on May 03, 2004, 06:45:03 PM

Theoretically, and with a lot of work, yes, it can be done.  How?  It's not worth my time explaining it when you could look up much easier syntheses yourself.  Were you to mix it with NO₃ gas, you'd have a lot of problems.  No, it would not have the same effect as potassium nitrate, because one is a mixture of an unstable reactive gas and a free alkali metal, and the other is a salt.