Re: [DIYbio] What happens when you electrolyse sodium bicarb solution?

You should be able to get battery acid (even in Ireland - smile).
---- Cathal Garvey <cathalgarvey@gmail.com> wrote:
> It's not always available: I have yet to find sulphuric acid available
> for sale around Ireland, although HCl is available as 10M solution in
> hardware stores.
>
> That said, electrolysing etc. to make hard Sulphuric acid might be a
> waste of effort if all you need is a strong mineral acid: use HCl
> instead. But if it's gotta be sulphuric, it might not be available locally..
>
> On 28/11/12 06:13, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 06:46:39PM -0500, Dakota wrote:
> >> Making sulfuric acid on the cheap from copper sulfate found as root killer
> >
> > Sulfuric acid is probably the cheapest chemical around.
> > There's no point in synthesizing everything from
> > scratch, just buy it.
> >
> >> at hardware stores is pretty easy, and also involves simple electrolysis
> >> and pretty colors.
> >>
> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dUSF9Gl0xE
> >>
> >> There are also a few ways to make HCl,
> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGjd7xxTuZw&feature=relmfu
> >>
> >> and nurdrage has more videos on nitric acid.
> >>
> >> You can also get cheap sulfuric acid and hydrochloric acid (although I
> >> don't think concentrated) at hardware stores again, used for stone masonry.
> >
> > A local artist/pigment shop sells hundreds of chemicals, and
> > very cheap, too.
> >
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