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Aqua regia dangers
The gold won't precipitate until the oxidizers are used up.

A reasonably sensitive test for gold ...
7-1-2010 at 17:13
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Aqua regia dangers
The big problem with reducing the metals is getting base metals as well: copper, nickel, lead, tin, ...
6-1-2010 at 14:07
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Fuming Nitric Acid
There's a chemical supply house in Oklahoma which specializes in nitric acid including RF. PM me if ...
5-1-2010 at 22:11
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Improving thermal conductivity from a hot plate
The aluminum (aluminium) foil trick is very useful! Some glass wool inside the foil (think cheap unf ...
5-1-2010 at 22:04
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capacitor discharge
EBW requires a fast rise time. Below 1 microsecond is a figure I've heard; there have been threads o ...
5-1-2010 at 21:18
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Medical Laser
Sounds like an RF heating cautery. Big valves/tubes are impressive in a steampunk sort of way :cool: ...
5-1-2010 at 20:53
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Windup magnetic stirrer.
Cold hard steel shatters. Bicycle thieves love LN2.
5-1-2010 at 20:40
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Windup magnetic stirrer.
The lubrication in your motor and gearbox is not designed to work below (say) -10C, so it may spin, ...
4-1-2010 at 05:36
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Hydrogen ignited in Ozone gas
Ummmm... forgive me, but I'm laughing. I -really- want a process which would let me store oxygen in ...
3-1-2010 at 22:45
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Windup magnetic stirrer.
If you decide to use a metal axle, stainless steel is a remarkably bad heat conductor for a metal. A ...
3-1-2010 at 22:15
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Hydrogen ignited in Ozone gas
Rapid charging battery systems are in various stages of development. Charging causes metal to be dep ...
2-1-2010 at 13:33
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Hydrogen ignited in Ozone gas
You'd still get oxides of nitrogen unless you carried an oxygen concentrator and fed the engine with ...
1-1-2010 at 18:52
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Need help with glassware problem
Have you checked the used lab equipment places like the one in Maryland or the couple of glass peopl ...
1-1-2010 at 18:40
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The effect of acid on skin
More on the original topic: I once spilled a flask of aqua regia on my hand - luckily it was somewha ...
1-1-2010 at 13:35
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Need help with glassware problem
@magpie - are you -sure- of the 10mm and 25mm dimensions? It seems strange that a big manufacturer w ...
1-1-2010 at 13:15
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Hydrogen ignited in Ozone gas
Ozone wouldn't be easy to use in an (internal combustion) engine. Besides attacking most plastics an ...
1-1-2010 at 12:51
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Bonding PTFE
@not_important - thanks! Time to go to the welding shop for a tank of oxygen-free argon... There are ...
31-12-2009 at 22:21
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Bonding PTFE
I've successfully closed PTFE tubing ends by heating until it becomes semitransparent then pressing ...
31-12-2009 at 17:22
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capacitor discharge
Commercial inexpensive CD units use 10-25A or so SCRs chosen for their pulse handling rating. A mult ...
16-12-2009 at 14:04
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What molecular sieve sizes do I need for methanol, ethanol and diethyl ether?
Two thoughts:

Use a (partial) vacuum to remove volatile substances from molecular sieves, and/o ...
14-12-2009 at 14:59
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Homebuilt 1300°C tube furnace
The "standard" insulation for high temperature thermocouple wires is braided glass/silica/asbestos s ...
13-12-2009 at 12:07
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Better table of reduction potentials?
The table in the chem rubber handbook isn't complete enough? I'm sure it has Ag+3 <-> Ag+1
3-12-2009 at 19:09
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'Continuous' distillation?
Have you seen drawings of countercurrent continuous stills? Very simply, it's a vertical column with ...
22-11-2009 at 22:21
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Scott BlueLine pH probe woe's
The voltage from the probe is about right - 59 mV per pH unit. The article you read may have been sl ...
22-11-2009 at 21:40
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Scott BlueLine pH probe woe's
[rquote=166353&tid=13044&author=dann2]Hello,
Could not get zero Volts from meter by shortin ...
22-11-2009 at 15:53
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