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Offline WinnieP

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Sulfur-like floating powder
« on: August 15, 2016, 04:36:45 PM »
Hello there!
I've been playing around with sulfur powder and water. The sulfur is insoluble and floats on water. If you add enough, you can completely cover a small water surface. You can then coat an object with sulfur a bit like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X86uAWWZHi0.

I want to play around with this more, but sulfur is a bit expensive to just test out the coating process on different objects. Does anyone know of any cheap, accessible material that has similar properties (floats on water, insoluble, powdery)?

Thanks!

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Re: Sulfur-like floating powder
« Reply #1 on: August 15, 2016, 05:07:24 PM »
Flowers of sulfur is rather cheap chemical, though apothecary one is a very high purity, and may be expensive.
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Re: Sulfur-like floating powder
« Reply #2 on: August 15, 2016, 05:12:55 PM »
Charcoal.

(Not sure if this counts)

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Re: Sulfur-like floating powder
« Reply #3 on: August 16, 2016, 04:52:58 AM »
Microballoons. Available at hobbyist shops.

Fine wood dust, as produced by sanding.

Graphite powder sold as lubricant. MoS2 lubricating powder too, but a big proportion sinks directly.

Flour.

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Re: Sulfur-like floating powder
« Reply #4 on: September 02, 2016, 05:13:34 PM »
Thanks everyone, will test it out soon :)

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