Amateur Chemistry

Intro

Outro

Making TEOS (Tetraethyl orthosilicate)

Figuring out how to make silica nanospheres and opal

Preparations for making ultramarine (Making metakaolin)

Making dirt opals for real this time

Upgrading the opals using alcohol

Making ultramarine blue (Lapis lazuli)

Making chromium trioxide from potassium dichromate

Making and testing blue, white, black, and green paints (Ultramarine green)