http://www.sciencemadness.org/pics/aluminum.JPG Aluminum powder that was made by grinding aluminum foil in a coffee grinder.

http://www.sciencemadness.org/pics/chembooks.JPG All of my chemistry textbooks stacked on my bed, with a one foot ruler leaning against them.

http://www.sciencemadness.org/pics/chemicals1.JPG Most of my large bottles of chemicals.

http://www.sciencemadness.org/pics/distilltube.JPG The glass tube that I used for my improvised distillation setup. It's about three feet long.

http://www.sciencemadness.org/pics/glassware1.JPG Most of my glassware.

http://www.sciencemadness.org/pics/gogglesmask.JPG My air-tight goggles (to protect my eyes from vapors) and my gas mask.

http://www.sciencemadness.org/pics/HNO3.JPG A small amount of nitric acid left in my nitric acid bottle. The quality of the nitric acid in this picture is fairly poor, because it has spent almost three digits of hours in indirect sunlight.

http://www.sciencemadness.org/pics/mnt.JPG A small bottle containing some mononitrotoluenes.

http://www.sciencemadness.org/pics/NaNO3.JPG My NaNO3. Each box weighs around 2.27kg.

http://www.sciencemadness.org/pics/nitrostarch1.JPG This is the result of purifying what was very impure nitrostarch. The off-white crap on the left is what was in the filter - on the right are flakes of high-purity nitrostarch. It was purified by dumping the impure nitrostarch in ethanol, and filtering. The nitrostarch dissolves in ethanol, starch does not...

http://www.sciencemadness.org/pics/nitrostarch2.JPG This is fairly pure nitrostarch. It was purified simply by placing it in filter paper, and running scalding hot water through it for hours. Starch dissolves in hot water, nitrostarch does not...

http://www.sciencemadness.org/pics/nitrosucrose.JPG This is the result of nitrating sucrose in mixed acid.

http://www.sciencemadness.org/pics/phenol.JPG This is what I hope is phenol. It has a low melting point, is pinkish, and does possess a characteristic odor. It is a deep purple when molten, and is thick. It was made by dissolving acetylsalicylic acid in boiling water, filtering, and boiling down the remaining solution till all that was left was a thick purple liquid, which occassionally ejected a blob onto the ceiling. The house (I idiotically did this in the kitchen on the stove) was filled with what I believe to be phenol vapors - my lungs were aching, and it had a strong, characteristic odor.

http://www.sciencemadness.org/pics/picricacid.JPG Some picric acid that is still wet.

http://www.sciencemadness.org/pics/RedShit.JPG A picture of the mysterious completely water-insoluble, exceedingly thick red goo that I have had formed when preparing picric acid via the acetylsalicylic acid method.

http://www.sciencemadness.org/pics/RedShit2.JPG Another picture of the feared Red Shit.

http://www.sciencemadness.org/pics/RedShit3.JPG Yet another picture of that infamous Red Shit.

http://www.sciencemadness.org/pics/scar.JPG A sulfuric acid scar that is present on my left arm. It was hit with a droplet of cold H2SO4, and I failed to wash it off for around a minute due to needing to get sulfuric acid off of my face. >_< I have no scars on my face, by the way.

http://www.sciencemadness.org/pics/scorch.JPG The acid dumping ground in my yard that I incessantly speak so highly of.

http://www.sciencemadness.org/pics/teflonsheet.jpg A picture of the sheet of teflon that I made that I use in my improvised distillation setup.