How to Make Sodium Acetate From Household Ingredients

Step 4 Cooling

At this point, you should have a super-saturated solution of sodium acetate. If you've got it right, blowing across the surface will cause crystals to form.

Let this cool to room temperature. It should form a translucent gel.

Comments

[reaper33]

I ever do this experiment but I used stove, not microwave. Im heat it.then after done, and i cooling. But why it didn't be solid and still be liquid. can anyone know where I wrong to do? what I must do?

[zbrandon]

you probably didn't let it dissolve enough

[dcardenas1]

Do NOT use Glass Cups! D:

[mstanford]

Why not?

[vnicolescu]

ahhh mine is really dark red nearly black liquid... what now?

[wolfandfoxtails]

Instead of using a microwave, i used the stove, it turned out just as good as yours did. I just put it in a measuring cup when i though it was boiled long enough to see if it matched your reduced sodium acetate. Thanks for posting this

[CHUCKULS]

WELL ABOUT 20  MINS DEPENDING ON THE ROOM WITH AC IS ABOUT 20  AND WITHOUT IS ABOUT 30 MINS

[darmen13]

if your microwave is not capable of being high wat can i do

[xerxesx20]

As this isn't an exact science (in this instance anyways) it says above you can "eyeball" the whole process, indicating it's simplicity and not entirely critical measurements, being accurate with the amounts will help a lot however. It will just take longer, the microwave vacuum tube (or magnetron/klystron) as used in a common microwave oven isn't capable of "high" or "low" power as such, they tend to be "cycled" (switched on and off) at a regular rate by the onboard processor/power control circuitry. I think this is right anyway. If your microwave is very large/powerful/old it may only have a "high" setting and might not have the necessary circuitry to cycle the microwave generation tube(s). Keep an eye on it (it may take no time at all, or on the other hand be so slow you could go and fix/mod something for an hour -- or five) and you should be alright. I hope this has been of some help to you. 8-)

[bunnilova08]

yeah, how long exactly do i wait for?

[ThunderBolt]

what part of refrigerator should I put this? .....

[LALA23]

how long exactly do we have to wait for the cooling process. I know until we see crystals being formed but how long SHOULD I be expecting to wait.