In this two part series I demonstrate how to make some of the most commonly used reagent tests from inexpensive and easy to obtain chemicals. I then demonstrate the use of each test by showing its reaction with 14 different unscheduled chemicals that are readily available to the public. Some are as common and everyday as table salt and table sugar while some are more exotic like hexamine which is used in camping stove fuel tablets. In my laboratory I use these compounds as a way to check that each batch of reagent is working properly. I also use them to make sure that a batch of reagent is still good after it has been stored for some time. It is my hope that I can demonstrate the fascinating chemistry and versatility of these general spot test reagents. The formulations and the test results can also be viewed in text form on my website at www.poormanschemist.com This is my personal website that I am creating to be a resource for home chemists everywhere. Along with my online home lab notebooks (written as I work so updated very frequently) you will find a link to the Home Chemists Grimoire. In it I have recorded every synthesis and test that I have personally tried out and that have been successful. If you wish to go to the reagent test formulations directly then click the following link: http://www.poormanschemist.com/PMC_Grimoire/PMC_Grimoire.html#marquis Just scroll down from there and you can see all the formulations and all of the test results from this and the second video as well as some extra material. :-) Donate via PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/PoorMansChemist1 Donate via CashApp: $poormanschemist Donate via Subscribe Star: https://www.subscribestar.com/poormanschemist Website: www.poormanschemist.com Discord Server Invite: https://discord.gg/THQTew8 Email: poormanschemist@gmail.com Odysee: https://open.lbry.com/@poormanschemist:9 BitChute: https://www.bitchute.com/poormanschemist/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/poormanschemist Sellers of Hard to Find Chems Backyardscience2000 Email (ask for a full product list) backyardscience2000@gmail.com BackyardScience2000 Ebay Store: https://www.ebay.com/usr/backyard-science-2000 Bacyardscience2000 CashApp: $backyardscience2000

This video is a follow up on Random Experiments Int.'s video on tin(IV) iodide. In that video he made mention of the compound that is the subject of this video. He said that he would have tried making it but he did not have any RbI. As luck would have it I had both RbI and SnI4 in my inventory already. After discussing it with him first and getting his blessing I went ahead and made up some azeotropic HI (the only thing I lacked to try the experiment) and gave making the compound a try. It's not a compound I would make twice which is why this video is done in a "show and tell" style. The SnI4 fumes are amongst the worst I have EVER dealt with! It may look like a happy bright orange crystal sitting there in its jar but heat it up and holy fucking shit. But trust me you get all the gory details. :-) Random Experiments Int. Original Tin(IV) Iodide Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-twfSKOg6To&t=312s The Nature of the Metal-Ligand Bonds in Hexahalostannates(IV) and Ammonium Hexachloroplumbate(IV) Studied by the Pure Quadrupole Resonance of Halogens https://www.journal.csj.jp/doi/pdf/10.1246/bcsj.36.1662 Donate via PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/PoorMansChemist1 Donate via CashApp: $poormanschemist Donate via Subscribe Star: https://www.subscribestar.com/poormanschemist Website: www.poormanschemist.com Discord Server Invite: https://discord.gg/THQTew8 Email: poormanschemist@gmail.com Odysee: https://open.lbry.com/@poormanschemist:9 BitChute: https://www.bitchute.com/poormanschemist/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/poormanschemist Sellers of Hard to Find Chems Backyardscience2000 Email (ask for a full product list) backyardscience2000@gmail.com BackyardScience2000 Ebay Store: https://www.ebay.com/usr/backyard-science-2000 Bacyardscience2000 CashApp: $backyardscience2000