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Bullboard - Stock Discussion Forum MGX Minerals Inc MGXMF

MGX Minerals Inc. is a Canada-based diversified resource and technology company with interests in advanced materials, metals, and energy technologies. The Company’s portfolios include Magnesium, Silicon, Lithium, Gold, and Silver. Its Magnesium projects include Driftwood Creek, Marysville, Red Mountain Group and Botts Lake. Its Silicon projects include Gibraltar, Koot and Wonah. Its Lithium... see more

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MGX Minerals Inc > DEHYDRATING AQUEOUS - Mg (OH )2
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Post by Wangotango67 on Aug 16, 2022 2:23am

DEHYDRATING AQUEOUS - Mg (OH )2

MgCO3 + Oxalate Acid
= Magnesium Oxalate

What happens when magnesium oxalate is placed in water ?

ANSWER ?
Magnesium Oxalate + Water = Carbon Dioxide + Brucite + Tritium

Let's focus on the Bruucite
= magnesium hydroxide
= Mg ( OH) 2 

The trick here is....
how to pull the magnesium hydroxide out of this aqueous solution
there's co2 + H3 ( tritium ) 

what i could not find out was...
if co2 gas is emitted and if H3 is emitted.
if they are... then, the remaining solution would be - magnesium hydroxide.

simple dryers could be employed to evaporate the water from the - mgo.
resulting in - mgo.

if one studies the process of - calcination vs dehydration to form = mgo.

calcination via furnace melt causes decomposition of other impurities.
resulting in... mgo.

VERSUS

aqueous magnesium hydroxide and the use of, dehydration - dryers.

Is there a difference in mgo ?
Is fired and decomposition via calcination a better mgo ?
or.. is dehydrating an aqueous magnesium hydroxide still the same ?

HERE'S A PAPER ON IT...
The mgo crystalization ( cubic ) still forms when magnesium hydroxide is dehydrated.
Go figure.

I would tend to think...
that high furnace heat could actually lose some of the mgo via decomposition.
while - dehydrating the mangesium hydroxide would lessen the loss.
might result in - more mgo content.

LINK -
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/j100027a033


Why even mention this ?
Or shall we discuss a $100/mil furnace ?
wink.

This is perhaps a far cheaper method than... furnace route.
Catalyst reaction using acids.
To arrive at an mgo.
( with perhaps more mgo than using furnace method and perhaps bonus H3 )


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This eve...
i was also researching - magnesium bicarbonate.

sodium bicarbonate and magnesium bicarbonate are similar formulas.
each in this phase are soluble.

what is found online is- 
once in a bicarbonate state and introduced to boiling water...
co2 off gasses.

Many... will exclude the tartaric acid from the - bicarbonate formula.
hence - they are only experimenting with - plain bicarbonates.
no acid in the mix.

Sodium Bicarbonate = has TartaricAcid in it's mixture.
Tartaric acid makes a whole lotta difference ( acid catalyst )

So... what now happens to a sodium bicarbonate with tartaric acid - boiled ?
Why did i choose boiled ?
It is not - electrolysis
But rather a new method of imparting hydrogen from an aqueous solution.

Solar panels that supply HEAT  to boil water.
Steam reformation - sort of.
 

Sodium bicarbonate is NaHCO3

Tartaric acid is C4H6O6

So, the reaction is:

NaHCO3 + C4H6O6 + 2H2O(l) = 5CO2(g) + NaOH + 5H2(g)


Hydrogen is given off in a gas.
5 H2 gas ( hello )

But.. at the same time, there are 5 CO2 also given off.

What if one captured the co2 and reused it and combined it with the NaOH ( sodium hydroxide ) ?

NaOH + co2 = NaCO3
Right back to the original = NaCO3


QUESTION -
Could this be applied to - magnesium bicarbonate ?
i haven't come across any other using this - steam boiling - method to produce hydrogen
using a magnesium bicarbonate.


One would have to resort to - oxalate acid with mgco3
turn to magnesium hydroxide
then.. .dehydrate to form magnesium hydroxie
then introduce a co2to arrive at a magnesium bicarbonate

But... if we analyze the formula of, mgco3
there are 3 oxygens and 1 carbon ?
Is there another way of dropping the 3 oxygen and adding one carbon to arrive at,
bicarbonate ?
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