Urea Pu rifica tion

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informative purpose. Remember: Always wear good protection if
you deal with chemicals. At the minimum, chemical resistant
gloves and a respirator with acid gases cartridges.

Sa fety : Urea is not considered as corrosive. Toxic ammonia

gases can be released when heating Urea.
 Parts list:
-Your Urea
-One 4 liters bottle
-One measuring cup (1000ml or more)
-Coffee Filters
-Funnel
-Hotplate (optional but recommended)
-Mortar and Pestle

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1. First of all, put 500ml of Urea in your measuring cup and add
hot water until you reach the 1 liter line. Swirl until all the urea
dissolves.
 2. When everything is dissolved, let sit 1 hour (you want the
particles to settle). Your liquid will be very brown and will clear a
little when it settles.
 This is the sediments you don't want ;)

3. Now filter the liquid but try not to disturb the sediments. Don't
expect getting a clear liquid with coffee filters. If you have lab
grade filters, you may get better purity. You should get a brown
liquid with little or no sediments.
Interesting thing: I've let a coffee filter dry over night and look,
Urea crystals have grown !
 4. You now have two choices. You can keep the liquid and use it
like this to neutralize the acid, or get back the Urea. Personally, I
do both. I think the best way to recover the Urea is to evaporate
the liquid with a vacuum. But I do not own a vacuum bell so I had
to heat the liquid. The thing is, Urea decomposes at 120°C so you
must be careful. It releases CO2 and ammonia when it
decomposes. So if it smells ammonia, you know you are heating
too much. But even if you go higher than 120°C, you won't loose
that much Urea...
Ok dried crystals should look like this (or better):
Now, put all that stuff in your mortar and crush it with your
pestle. (Maybe one could use a coffee grinder but I did not tried)

It looks much better right ?

Final pr oduct !:

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