Milori Blue

[Project IGI]

Maybe a n00b question, but it's easy to make, so I was just wondering if there was any use for it.

Here's how the reaction works:

Slowly Pour: 2g FeCl3 in 100 ml deionized water into 1g K4[Fe(CN)6] in 200 ml deionized water. Then filter out the blue precipitate that forms. Dry at 100° C to form the Milori blue pigment.

Here's some picture's:

http://62.254.27.174/hosted/igi/making1.jpg
http://62.254.27.174/hosted/igi/making2.jpg
http://62.254.27.174/hosted/igi/making3.jpg
http://62.254.27.174/hosted/igi/making4.jpg

[Rhadon]

For most of us the reaction will be more interesting the other way around. Prussian blue (or milori blue, irion ferrocyanide, whatever) itself looks nice, but it's only useful for making NaCN or KCN. For this you have to make Na- or K-ferrocyanide out of the prussian blue, thus the conversion isn't essential.

[FragmentedSanity]

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