Posted on 01/01/2002 8:00:29 AM PST by vinylsidingman
I'm trying to help neighbor find out what his 17 old would be doing with several ampules of ammonium sulfide.
From what i've been able to find on the net this is not a very safe thing for teens, or anyone without experience to have.
Thanking freepers in advance for comments
vsm
I think you replied to the wrong person
Ammonium sulfate aka diammonium sulfate is commonly used as a quick coin toner. It gives silver a rainbow blue, yellow, golden color. It's sold on ebay as coin toner in small 1ml glass vials. Does your son perhaps collect coins? cc
People are killed by H2S in the oil field all the time, just two months ago two men died while servicing a tank battery. I just did a well where the rig hands had to work with air packs and air lines, it took three days to control the gas.
WRONG
SO3 + H2O = H2SO4
The sulfur in hydrogen sulfide has a valence of -2, while the sulfur in sulfur trioxide or in sulfuric acid has a valence of +6. You should have learned that in Chemistry 100.
WRONG AGAIN
SO2 + H2O = H2SO3
sulfur dioxide + water = sulfurous acid (not sulfuric)
2SO2 + O2 = 2SO3
sulfur dioxide + oxygen = sulfur trioxide
SO3 + H2O = H2SO4
sulfur trioxide + water = sulfuric acid
Trying to recall my college chemistry from forty years ago.
What would these flavors be? Rotten eggs and sewer gas or not on my top ten flavors.
Rotten eggs top 50 maybe.
I majored in chemistry in college, but I haven't used it in years. Thanks for the opportunity to use that old knowledge again.
I see. Well, that explains it then. I wish I had studied more chemistry myself. It had always been an interesting subject in my opinion.
I'm not insulted. I just couldn't understand your interest in this old thread.
But
You explained it all. Have a good evening.
H2S can also be made by the hydrolysis of ferrous sulfide.
I was a Bad Kid. Got it into the potted plants in the administrative offices.
Someone watered the plants, and ....
I visited Ground Zero some hours later. The office staff was too well-bred to react...They suffered in the stench, making accusatory sidelong glances at each other.
Ammonium sulfide is most effective when it is bottled up in a bottle the size of your first two pinky finger joints. You use this as a stink bomb. He/she may be trying to make a large stink bomb.
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