Chemistry and Iron Nails - Making Iron Oxide (Rust)

We explore how to make iron oxide or rust in a reliable way from iron nails to get a quantity that can be used as a pigment, catalyst, and abrasive to name a few applications. This is an example of chemistry that can be done easily at home.

If you want to follow along with this experiment, you will need:
an iron nail,
some iron wire,
salt,
water,
filter paper/kitchen roll/coffee filter,
some glasses/plastic cups to collect solutions and filter into.
You will also need to build an electrolytic cell which we covered previously in a video on electrolysis but instead we use iron for the electrodes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBNi8ZQ4Boc&t=308s).

In this video I make use of the method shown by NurdRage which I have linked below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZQ67POLiqg
He has many excellent videos exploring chemistry, well worth watching!

Thank you so much for watching and look forward to seeing you next time.

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