What you can see here is a white precipitate forming. This shouldn’t happen, I started to think the KOH was badly un pure. At this point I was a bit confused to why this happened, I asked around on sciencemadness.org and they told me what to do
Remember even if doesnt look like it, some ammonia will still be released and this should be done out side
I didn’t record the boiling process, All that needs to be done if a precipitate forms is to dissolve the precipitate and boil down till a precipitate starts to form
At that point I took it off heat and placed it into a beaker, I then put it in the freezer for 30 min to cool to squeeze out most of the product
This is what mine looks like after a nice white precipitate formed as the temperature dropped , beaker up the clump and filter
Wash with cold water to rince the precipitate , vacuume filtration would work way better then gravity
To test, mix 50/50 or 75/25 KNO3 to sucrose and light… it should burn with a brilliant purple tinge
Special thanks to woelen and nein for the help they gave me to complete this experiment from sciencemadness