Zumber Posted July 13, 2012 Share Posted July 13, 2012 here is the easy way of making red iron oxide.You will need 1) steel wool 2) hydrogen peroxide (H2O2)method- keep the steel wool on glass/plastic plate(any other non metallic) and spray hydrogen peroxide using water spraying bottle 4 to 5 times a day,keep on spraying for 2+ days.After 3 days you will get find red iron oxide.Steel wool is used for washing metallic pots,pans etc.H2O2 can easily found in any medical store.See attatched image of still wool.Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuleo Posted July 13, 2012 Share Posted July 13, 2012 Its simply not worth the effort. Where I live it would be at least 10x more expensive to produce it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Potassiumchlorate Posted July 13, 2012 Share Posted July 13, 2012 Well, everyone doesn't live in Europe or North America Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dagabu Posted July 13, 2012 Share Posted July 13, 2012 Well, everyone doesn't live in Europe or North America Perhaps not but there is not a country out there that doesn't' have a clay supplies house. Red iron oxide is a staple coloring agent for terracotta clay pots worldwide. I have found clay houses in Russia, Poland, Ukraine, Bolivia and Brazil online for people looking for them. I am sure that I can find one in anybodies country that has internet access. Try me -dag Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WSM Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 Its simply not worth the effort. Where I live it would be at least 10x more expensive to produce it. Then again, there is iron oxide and there's iron oxide. One way to be sure you've got the right thing of the proper purity is to follow every step of it's production (make it yourself). Sometimes we make things, not because they're unavailable, but because we want to learn how to do it for ourselves. I have free access to chlorate or perchlorate, it doesn't mean I don't care about how it's done. I like learning how to do it for myself (that, and you never know what the future availability may be). WSM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ANFO Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 (edited) Another, much faster method of this is just to burn the steel wool in a metal drum/container. This oxidizes the steel wool quite quickly, and you get to start a fire Thanks @Dag for the good info on the pottery shops, its a great help for me in deepest darkest africa Edit: the best steel wool to use for this is the kind sold for finishing wood work, its got a very fine 'weave' and is made of thinner strands which oxidize easily. Edited August 17, 2012 by ANFO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dagabu Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 Another, much faster method of this is just to burn the steel wool in a metal drum/container. This oxidizes the steel wool quite quickly, and you get to start a fire Thanks @Dag for the good info on the pottery shops, its a great help for me in deepest darkest africa Edit: the best steel wool to use for this is the kind sold for finishing wood work, its got a very fine 'weave' and is made of thinner strands which oxidize easily. Considering the cost of RIO v.s. making it yourself, I will go with buying a pound for a couple bucks. When the balloon goes up, Im coming to your house WSM. -dag Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WSM Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 Considering the cost of RIO v.s. making it yourself, I will go with buying a pound for a couple bucks. When the balloon goes up, Im coming to your house WSM. -dag That sounds like a mighty long walk... WSM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ANFO Posted August 21, 2012 Share Posted August 21, 2012 (edited) Considering the cost of RIO v.s. making it yourself, I will go with buying a pound for a couple bucks. When the balloon goes up, Im coming to your house WSM. -dag Yeah, I just bought 3 kilograms from a pottery shop for R65,00 which is about $8.50 Edited August 21, 2012 by ANFO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dagabu Posted August 21, 2012 Share Posted August 21, 2012 That sounds like a mighty long walk... WSM Well, I won't have anything else to do but dodge zombies so a long walk may be the best thing I cam do. -dag Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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