Magnesium powder for yr 12 Chemistry: Riskasses
Magnesium powder for yr 12 Chemistry: Riskasses
Hello,
Magnesium powder is required for a Yr 12 Chemistry experiment, when putting this on Riskassess, it would not allow me to proceed. What is it rated in the NSW CSIS book ? Please. It is for the
Enthalpy changes in chemical reactions, Heinmann book 2.
Magnesium powder is required for a Yr 12 Chemistry experiment, when putting this on Riskassess, it would not allow me to proceed. What is it rated in the NSW CSIS book ? Please. It is for the
Enthalpy changes in chemical reactions, Heinmann book 2.
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Re: Magnesium powder for yr 12 Chemistry: Riskasses
In CSIC it is teachers use only so a red dot
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Re: Magnesium powder for yr 12 Chemistry: Riskasses
Hi
In the CSIS book it is rated for Teacher Only use. I don't have any of the chemical as we don't use it. Cheers
In the CSIS book it is rated for Teacher Only use. I don't have any of the chemical as we don't use it. Cheers
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Re: Magnesium powder for yr 12 Chemistry: Riskasses
I have never had it requested. I would be checking if the ribbon can be used instead.
Re: Magnesium powder for yr 12 Chemistry: Riskasses
If we need to use magnesium powder I just cut up the ribbon really really small. No complaints so far in fact it was the chem teachers idea.
Re: Magnesium powder for yr 12 Chemistry: Riskasses
I would recommend the magnesium ribbon as metal powders are very risky ie can explode
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Re: Magnesium powder for yr 12 Chemistry: Riskasses
Just discovered this . Needless to say I'm a bit nervous dealing with it . obviously it has slowly absorbed moisture as our Chem store is cold and damp and has expanded and cracked the jar . There is now a split about 1-2mm wide that is exposing more air and moisture .
I'm going to keep a small amount as we use maybe a gram a year and dispose of the rest .
according to risk assess I can react up to 100gm with a dilute HCl and dispose of down drain with lots of water . Should be gone in three days . Quicker than getting a disposal mob out . See the Date on the container 1980 .42 years old
Just a suggestion that anyone that still has this , could experience a similar problem .
I'm going to keep a small amount as we use maybe a gram a year and dispose of the rest .
according to risk assess I can react up to 100gm with a dilute HCl and dispose of down drain with lots of water . Should be gone in three days . Quicker than getting a disposal mob out . See the Date on the container 1980 .42 years old
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Just a suggestion that anyone that still has this , could experience a similar problem .
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Re: Magnesium powder for yr 12 Chemistry: Riskasses
WOW Bigmack, the things you so find.
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Re: Magnesium powder for yr 12 Chemistry: Riskasses
Yup
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So the I discovered the practicalities of disposing of 100gms of this powder . Firstly , its this much . I started with about 300mls of 2M HCl and added about a teaspoon to see what would happen .
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It fizzes and foams up about a few cm and the beaker does get warm . So I setup a few beakers and just kept adding powder bit by bit to each . The reaction takes longer and longer and eventually the beakers start to go grey looking as the powder runs out of acid . At this point I just added a splash of some older jars of 5,6,8M HCl we had in the storeroom until eventually I had reacted all the Powder .
So now I have about 5 litres of Magnesium Chloride to pour down the drain with lots and lots of water . Definitely a lot more bother than I thought , but a lot cheaper and quicker than getting it removed .
And much to my relief , it did not spontaneously combust
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Re: Magnesium powder for yr 12 Chemistry: Riskasses
Well done you, it's the right thing to do.
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Re: Magnesium powder for yr 12 Chemistry: Riskasses
Well done bigmack.
When I started here I had a similar problem - lots of waste in the storeroom and nothing in the budget to pay for disposal. So I did my research and bit by bit disposed of what I could. By the time I was done, I could afford to pay a contractor to dispose of what was left.
My biggest problem was a full Winchester of sulfuric acid that had turned black!
When I started here I had a similar problem - lots of waste in the storeroom and nothing in the budget to pay for disposal. So I did my research and bit by bit disposed of what I could. By the time I was done, I could afford to pay a contractor to dispose of what was left.
My biggest problem was a full Winchester of sulfuric acid that had turned black!
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Re: Magnesium powder for yr 12 Chemistry: Riskasses
It becomes less explosive as it ages and absorbs moisture. I bet if I got rid of it a teacher would ask for it next week.