NEW! Making High Quality Prussian Blue With HCN Gas #chemistry #cyanide #donttryathome #pigments

First published at 11:35 UTC on February 19th, 2023.
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I react chunks of iron covered with sodium potassium cyanide (a byproduct of the sodium potassium cyanide synthesis) with ~6M HCl to produce very fine particles of Prussian Blue. The acid reacts with the cyanide ion to produce HCN in solution. The a…

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