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Legality: DEA Listed Chemicals
Production of this substance may be illegal in some jurisdictions under certain circumstances.
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Bottom line: Do not produce this chemical without checking to make sure that you may do so legally.
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Legality: CWC Schedule 3
- CONVENTION ON THE PROHIBITION OF THE DEVELOPMENT, PRODUCTION, STOCKPILING AND USE OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS AND ON THEIR DESTRUCTION
- ANNEX ON CHEMICALS
- A. GUIDELINES FOR SCHEDULES OF CHEMICALS
- Guidelines for Schedule 3
- The following criteria shall be taken into account in considering whether a toxic chemical or precursor, not listed in other Schedules, should be included in Schedule 3:
- (a) It has been produced, stockpiled or used as a chemical weapon;
- (b) It poses otherwise a risk to the object and purpose of this Convention because it possesses such lethal or incapacitating toxicity as well as other properties that might enable it to be used as a chemical weapon;
- (c) It poses a risk to the object and purpose of this Convention by virtue of its importance in the production of one or more chemicals listed in Schedule 1 or Schedule 2, part B;
- (d) It may be produced in large commercial quantities for purposes not prohibited under this Convention.
- The following criteria shall be taken into account in considering whether a toxic chemical or precursor, not listed in other Schedules, should be included in Schedule 3:
- ANNEX ON CHEMICALS
Production of this substance may be illegal in some jurisdictions under certain circumstances. Bottom line: Do not produce this chemical without checking to make sure that you may do so legally.
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Uses
- Primary component of glass
- Fused silicon dioxide is a high-temperature-resistant glass
- Primary source of pure silicon
Natural occurrence
Silicon dioxide occurs naturally, usually as sand and other silacious minerals.
Hazards
- GRAS
Production
Extraction
Purification
phase I
- grind to a fine powder, breaking the sand crystals along faults and exposing impurities on the surface
- Wash thoroughly with hot hydrochloric acid, converting calcium, magnesium, sodium, potassium, and iron compounds to water-soluble chlorides
- Wash thoroughly with hot water
Phase II
- melt N ubm of sodium hydroxide
- add M ubm of acid-and-water-washed sand
- {{#Chem: 2NaOH(l) + SiO2(s) = Na2SiO3 + H2O(v)}}
- heat and stir, producing a mixture of silcon dioxide, sodium hydroxide, and sodium silicate
- dissolve the mixture in water
- cool to room temperature
- filter
- discard residue (unreacted sand)
- heat and add hydrochloric acid until the solution is acidic
- {{#Chem: Na2SiO3 + 2HCl = 2NaCl + H2SiO3 // excess sodium hydroxide becomes salt and water}}
- cool to room temperature
- filter
- neutralize and discard filtrate
- retain residue (gel of silicic acid)
- wash with water
- heat silicic acid to produce pure silicon dioxide.
- {{#Chem: H2SiO3 { = heat } SiO2(s) + H2O(v) }}
Purification
Testing
Storage
Disposal
Provided the crystals are coarse enough to fall out of the air, silicon dioxide can be disposed of into the environment.
See Also
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