How I Mass Produced Potassium Metal In The Backyard

In this Video you can see how we produced over 1000 g of potassium metal in a single destillation. The chemistry behind it is really simple and it is just a reduction of potassium carbonate with magnesium metal: K2CO3 + 3Mg -- 2K + C + 3MgO. The technical details of getting this to work are much more difficult and you can see all the trouble and sucess we had with this endavour here. It was certainly a lot of fun and I want to do a lot more projects like that in the future. Advanced Tinkerings perspective:    • Highly Reactive Potassium Metal Production   00:00 Introduction 01:53 Getting the Equipment 03:48 Attempt #1 15:55 Attempt #2 28:36 Attempt #3 38:54 Playing with the potassium Metal