I am trying to find away of turning aluminum oxide or alumina into just aluminum. Please post all ideas i dont care how crazy.
The problem is that in an oxygen rich environment, like the air, then aluminum will instantly form a protective coating of aluminum oxide on any freshly prepared surface. So, mechanical sanding or abrasion will be of little help. You could abrade the surface inside of a container where there is no oxygen. That would require the construction of an airtight glovebox, then fill it with N2 or an inert gas. The aluminum oxide coating will dissolve in very basic solutions. Aluminum metal is also very reactive with water. 2Al + 6H2O -- 2Al(OH)3(s) + 3H2(g) In Drano, the basic solution dissolves the Al2O3 coating, which allows the Al metal to react with water producing H2 gas and the agitation needed to help dissolve the clog.
usually, in industy, the common way used is electrolysis...aluminium oxide, Al2O3 is heated until it's molten...then cryolite is added to bauxite (aluminium oxide) to lower its melting point before electrolysis is carried out to obtain pure Al metal...
ensure u have distilled water cuz if there is salt in it, u might finally end up freeing chlorine interior the air and die. haha. ok, take a 9 -12 volt battery or something like that and placed 2 wires from the positve and unfavourable ends interior the water. the only cord that bubbles extra is the hydrogen. so turn a attempt tube and placed it interior the water and so as that there is not any air interior the attempt tube. whilst the cord is going in, the hydrogen will fill it up and u'll be left with organic hydrogen interior the tube. i don't be conscious of if i defined it perfect yet there are a team of video clips on youtube. examine them out.
