Potassium Metal From Potash

In this video I show how potash or potassium carbonate is transformed into potassium metal. The process in relatively simple in theory: Magnesium metal is used as a reducing agent and the following reaction will occur:

K2CO3 + 3Mg -- 2K + C + 3 MgO.

After the reaction is done the metal can be distilled, yielding pure potassium metal.

In pratice this took a couple of trials to get the conditions right and my most succesfull attempt yet is demonstrated in this video. The plan is to later scale this up, so we can build an intergalactic potassium metal empire.

Thanks to Advanced Tinkering for filming this video and providing the necessary equipment. You can find his channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@UC2M2T4FSz1kSqNhhL-n9R9A

Here is my previous video on making potassium metal, that is also quoted in this video:
https://youtu.be/esnj2Dxwwoo

Видео Potassium Metal From Potash канала Elias Experiments