bio-inorganic like a puzzle

dinakar · Post by **dinakar** » Fri Jun 14, 2013 9:22 am

boiling the cow urine 100 ml with 50gr of sea salt in the iron vessole

AND ADDING some unknown powder while boiling.

finally when dried it became dark red powder.

what could be the unknown powder. this became a big puzzle for me.

sunshaker · Post by **sunshaker** » Mon Jun 17, 2013 10:45 am

I am no chemist but sodium hydroxide comes to mind.

Rodrigo Pires · Post by **Rodrigo Pires** » Mon Dec 30, 2013 7:11 pm

Well, the main compound in urine is urea, so you boiled urea and sodium chloride in a iron vessel, add some magic powder and then get a dark red powder. Nice experiment but i cant tell you exactly what is that powder, its probably some compound formed by the reaction of urea and sodium chloride.