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Anyone ever purified metal via an aluminothermic/magnesiothermic (aka thermite) reaction? I was thinking of mixing up some TiO2+Al powder with an Al/gypsum booster to get it started. Any thoughts? Will I get any usable titanium metal or just burn my fuckin face off?
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>>1236340
That shit is generally on level "I got burned, crusty nuggets of some metal - GREAT SUCCESS!".
That is, it's a fun chemistry experiment, but not really a way to produce useful metals at home.
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Thermodynamically possible, but then again so is turning diamond into graphite. Depend on how much of an activation barrier there is - not familiar with titanium extractive metallurgy.
Usable metal? Probably be really brittle from nitrogen/carbon/oxygen impurities if this does end up working.
Sounds like fun though. You may want to review safety practices for class D fires if you aren't familiar with those.
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>>1236340
chemist here,
you can try it but some problems 2 deal with
>Ti will burn with Oxygen
>The liquid metall is impure with AlxOy, TiO2 and Al
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