Making TeO2, Telluropentathionic Acid, Sodium Tellurite/Tellurate, and 6 Transition Metal Tellurites

First published at 03:18 UTC on February 13th, 2020.
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In this video I make tellurium dioxide from tellurium metal. At first I had some difficulty (passivation) when trying to dissolve it in 47% HNO3 so I took the crude TeO2 and reacted that with boiling 88% H2SO4. This allowed easy separation of the re…

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