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Offline Tittywahah

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Re: NaOH turned to Yellow color
« Reply #15 on: April 02, 2014, 03:31:25 AM »
I have not time to research this myself but google turns up many comments I have not looked into these but I am sure others have had the same issues, here is a search result:

http://www.google.co.uk/#q=electrolysis+turns+yellow

Have had a quick browse and there seems to be a consensus about yellow being caused by chloride ions.

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Re: NaOH turned to Yellow color
« Reply #16 on: April 02, 2014, 03:34:35 AM »
Highly appreciate your assistance :)

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Re: NaOH turned to Yellow color
« Reply #17 on: April 02, 2014, 05:49:10 AM »
H2O + NaCl + Al + Unknowns In Al source + Unknowns in H2O source + Unknowns in NaCl source :rarrow: 9V electrolysis :rarrow:  Result?

So the above reaction is what we are discussing.
I am just posting this for informational purposes.

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Re: NaOH turned to Yellow color
« Reply #18 on: April 02, 2014, 05:09:25 PM »
@symori

I do not know why you are not buying your NaOH from someone like

http://www.bulkapothecary.com/

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Re: NaOH turned to Yellow color
« Reply #19 on: April 02, 2014, 09:43:10 PM »
@symori

I do not know why you are not buying your NaOH from someone like

http://www.bulkapothecary.com/

Because i have a house, like 10mins walk to the beach. So I think I have all the minerals to produce my own chemical   :)

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Re: NaOH turned to Yellow color
« Reply #20 on: April 14, 2014, 03:12:02 PM »
Nobody here seemed to realize that you will not get a pure solution of sodium hydroxide from electrolyzing salt water, even with pure sodium chloride, pure platinum electrodes, and pure water. You need a special kind of electrolytic cell for sodium hydroxide. Without it, the remaining solution will be heavily contaminated with sodium oxychlorides, the main contaminant being sodium hypochlorite, or bleach. It's yellow.

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Re: NaOH turned to Yellow color
« Reply #21 on: April 14, 2014, 08:29:40 PM »
Nobody here seemed to realize that you will not get a pure solution of sodium hydroxide from electrolyzing salt water, even with pure sodium chloride, pure platinum electrodes, and pure water. You need a special kind of electrolytic cell for sodium hydroxide. Without it, the remaining solution will be heavily contaminated with sodium oxychlorides, the main contaminant being sodium hypochlorite, or bleach. It's yellow.

hmm... absolutely new thing for me to digest.
thanks a lot  ;)

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