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Mad Science at the max, where do you draw the line?
Hmmm, you don't need special alloys to handle fluorine. Monel metal, nickel or just plain coppe ...
14-6-2004 at 07:14
by: Theoretic
Complex ions of copper
I have myself prepared Cu(NH3)4SO4.
I have added copper sulfate to a 25%solution of ammonia, a deep ...
14-6-2004 at 07:01
by: Theoretic
Homemade MgCl2 Does Not Melt
"Hydrated MgCl2 decomposes to magnesiumoxychloride and HCl upon heating:

2MgCl2 + H2O ---&g ...
7-6-2004 at 07:22
by: Theoretic
PTFE (Teflon) Sintering, coating, forming, and its decomposition.
PTFE decomposes to give a reportedly extremely toxic fluorocarbon among everything else (don't ...
2-6-2004 at 10:24
by: Theoretic
Preparation of elemental phosphorus
"My plans

On the Sunday I plannig to prepare P from H3PO4 + C = H20 + CO + P.
I have real ...
31-5-2004 at 09:26
by: Theoretic
Nitrogen trichloride NCl3 production
Nooo... no heat, no catalyst, you're dealing with NCl3! I take to it you don't fully know ...
27-5-2004 at 11:44
by: Theoretic
What should we do for anniversaries at MSDB?
I say we should try out something really out-of-line - i.e., a novel method of chemically preparing ...
27-5-2004 at 05:24
by: Theoretic
wodka-brewing
Man, you could at least DILUTE it!
:o:o:o
27-5-2004 at 05:15
by: Theoretic
Zinc from Zinc Sulfate
Also, zinc may be electrolytically obtained by electrolysing zinc ammonium hydroxide - the zinc ion ...
27-5-2004 at 05:12
by: Theoretic
Tragic Glassware
Tourete syndrome? What's that? The Chemical Rage syndrome? :D
The test tube eaten through by s ...
27-5-2004 at 05:02
by: Theoretic
Aluminum Shavings
When in contact with salt water, aluminium corrodes easiy, much more so a fine powder. I would sugge ...
27-5-2004 at 04:48
by: Theoretic
Wickless Alcohol Lamp?
Probably a very thin tube submerged below the level of alcohol, it rises by the capillary effect and ...
27-5-2004 at 04:40
by: Theoretic
oleum & SO3
You probably got Na2SO4, Na2SO5 isn't stable at high temperatures.
I think you probably produc ...
27-5-2004 at 04:34
by: Theoretic
TEPP Synthesis
I think you could use straight sodium pyrophosphate, isomer formation as in when making nitroalkanes ...
27-5-2004 at 04:22
by: Theoretic
Potassium ferrate
Yes, 2.20 V for the three electrons taken when iron goes down from +6 to +3 oxidation state in acid ...
27-5-2004 at 03:39
by: Theoretic
Ammmonium nitrate reactor
I was just thinking about the thermal decomposition of AN, which provokes a lot of controversy - i.e ...
26-5-2004 at 11:27
by: Theoretic
glycerol triazide
You wouldn't get a O-N3 bond, as a hydroxide group would be taken off the glycerine, a hydrogen ...
26-5-2004 at 04:02
by: Theoretic
Battery acid
Pics?
POST 'EM!
26-5-2004 at 03:27
by: Theoretic
Molten hydroxide as an oxidizing agent.
When molten nitrates decompose/are reduced to nitrites, the oxygen atom splits off as... just that, ...
26-5-2004 at 02:24
by: Theoretic
Potassium ferrate
"Apparently ferrates are stronger oxidisers than permanganates, so beware!"
True, they ox ...
20-5-2004 at 06:32
by: Theoretic
curious adventures with alcohol oxidation
What becomes of the copper nitrate?
CuNO3?
CuNO2?
Cu(NO2)2?
19-5-2004 at 10:37
by: Theoretic
Silicon (and Boron)
Aluminium-silicon alloys do make silane...

On the upside, you could melt your aluminium, add a li ...
19-5-2004 at 03:42
by: Theoretic
Organic Hypochlorites
A good way to prepare methyl hypochlorite would be to react methyl chloride with sodium hypochlorite ...
8-5-2004 at 09:51
by: Theoretic
Preparation of elemental phosphorus
Hmmm... I think that the phosphide ion is an intermidiate in the phosphorus preparation. The alumini ...
4-5-2004 at 03:36
by: Theoretic
Chlorine
When iron is fused with KNO3 (I think NaNO3 could also work) iron ferrate is formed like so:

2KNO ...
1-5-2004 at 09:52
by: Theoretic
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