I have been trying to wrap my head around iodine and it seems that there is much contradictory info out there. I want to experiment with putting gold into solution from the black sands I have saved over the years from panning for gold, as well as some scrap precious metals.
I had wanted to start with just trying to change the iodine between an elemental/oxidized state and its reduced form with chlorine bleach and sodium hydroxide to see if I could manipulate it. Before investing the money for iodine crystals I tried precipitating a small amount out of a 2% tincture with limited success. I used 2 ounces of 2% USP iodine and tried to drop it out of solution by adding equal parts of distilled water. Since that did not work I assume that they must have added some sodium or potassium to the tincture to make it miscible with water.
Next I tried 2 ounces of 2% USP iodine and added ¼ cup hydrogen peroxide and a half ounce of muriatic acid. It got immediately dark and then started to precipitate an almost black fluffy material. Unexpectedly though it was too great a volume of dark precipitate for the amount of iodine I had started with, and was light enough to be lifted to the top by the ?hydrogen? bubbles. When nothing else was being precipitated I filtered it anyhow and washed it with distilled water 2 times. I then added a sodium hydroxide solution (lye) and it rapidly became crystal clear.
Questions;
Is the washed black precipitate that I dissolved in sodium hydroxide and distilled water indeed crystallized iodine?
If I add chlorine it should go red/brown, if excess chlorine will it cause the iodine to re-crystallize out of solution?
Am I understanding terminology correctly that elemental/oxidized state is liquid and reduced is solid (crystals)?
Are there 2 states in a liquid? I had read that I should keep it red/brown in solution when dissolving gold but when ready to precipitate the gold out to take it to clear with a sodium hydroxide aqueous solution. At that point I should get a fine black gold powder settling.
Thank you very much for your time.
I had wanted to start with just trying to change the iodine between an elemental/oxidized state and its reduced form with chlorine bleach and sodium hydroxide to see if I could manipulate it. Before investing the money for iodine crystals I tried precipitating a small amount out of a 2% tincture with limited success. I used 2 ounces of 2% USP iodine and tried to drop it out of solution by adding equal parts of distilled water. Since that did not work I assume that they must have added some sodium or potassium to the tincture to make it miscible with water.
Next I tried 2 ounces of 2% USP iodine and added ¼ cup hydrogen peroxide and a half ounce of muriatic acid. It got immediately dark and then started to precipitate an almost black fluffy material. Unexpectedly though it was too great a volume of dark precipitate for the amount of iodine I had started with, and was light enough to be lifted to the top by the ?hydrogen? bubbles. When nothing else was being precipitated I filtered it anyhow and washed it with distilled water 2 times. I then added a sodium hydroxide solution (lye) and it rapidly became crystal clear.
Questions;
Is the washed black precipitate that I dissolved in sodium hydroxide and distilled water indeed crystallized iodine?
If I add chlorine it should go red/brown, if excess chlorine will it cause the iodine to re-crystallize out of solution?
Am I understanding terminology correctly that elemental/oxidized state is liquid and reduced is solid (crystals)?
Are there 2 states in a liquid? I had read that I should keep it red/brown in solution when dissolving gold but when ready to precipitate the gold out to take it to clear with a sodium hydroxide aqueous solution. At that point I should get a fine black gold powder settling.
Thank you very much for your time.