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platinum coated mesh/wool
Sure, you can reduce it onto the surface with ammonium formate, at pH 6-6.5 at 80*C. Or you can use ...
20-4-2011 at 08:37
by: Fleaker
Extraction of platinum metal from Sperrylite (PtAs2)
Ehh, the best thing to do is leave it alone. Sperrylite in small quantities is worth FAR more as a g ...
20-4-2011 at 08:28
by: Fleaker
platinum coated mesh/wool
No, don't electrodeposit.

Make a 0.5 M HCl solution of a known concentration (chloroplatinic acid ...
19-4-2011 at 09:52
by: Fleaker
purification of LAH
Anyone think of looking in the references section for W.L.F. Armarego's Purification of Laboratory C ...
17-4-2011 at 08:06
by: Fleaker
platinum coated mesh/wool
Make it. H2PtCl6 onto kaowool and then reduce with H2 gas.
17-4-2011 at 07:59
by: Fleaker
Cheap platinum jewelry as anodes for DIY chloralkali cell?
If you're in UK, go to Johnson Matthey. They will sell it.


I'd offer to post you some, but I'm ...
17-4-2011 at 07:56
by: Fleaker
Periodic table has actually no more than 98 elements
Rhenium was around $10,000/gram back around the time of its discovery.

Most rare radioisotopes an ...
17-4-2011 at 07:54
by: Fleaker
McLeod Gauge
Yes I have done this before, I'm not speaking from a guess--I have cleaned McCleod gauges and glass ...
16-4-2011 at 09:04
by: Fleaker
Pepper grinder and magnesium?
Presuming you have access, what's wrong with using a lathe or a mill and then grinding those turning ...
16-4-2011 at 08:58
by: Fleaker
gallium
It's because it's a DOT 8 corrosive material that must be shipped ground; it has many of the same ha ...
16-4-2011 at 08:56
by: Fleaker
McLeod Gauge
Concentrated HNO3 doesn't work that well in dissolving clean mercury, the fastest way to dissolve me ...
16-4-2011 at 08:55
by: Fleaker
Platinum plating
See pages 1579-1580 in Brauer's: [i]cis[/i]-dinitrodiammineplatinum (II). This salt is THE salt for ...
16-4-2011 at 08:48
by: Fleaker
cleaning glass frit
Carbon isn't impossible to remove. Quick whirl in a box oven overnight usually does it. My glassblow ...
6-4-2011 at 19:36
by: Fleaker
styrene
I have destructively distilled polystyrene foam and extruded product before, and the pyrolysis does ...
6-4-2011 at 19:32
by: Fleaker
School is not where most Americans learn most of their science
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I used to agree almost exactly with you, but n ...
5-4-2011 at 13:23
by: Fleaker
styrene
You don't want to distill styrofoam of PS cups. A lot of really stinky things are produced.

Inste ...
5-4-2011 at 12:53
by: Fleaker
School is not where most Americans learn most of their science
[rquote=205154&tid=14723&author=m1tanker78]Virtually all public schools in the U.S. are poli ...
27-3-2011 at 10:50
by: Fleaker
International Chemistry Olympiad - Help needed with problems
Sounds like you just missed it. Better luck next year!


One of the graduate students in my old r ...
27-3-2011 at 10:16
by: Fleaker
legality of c. paspali?
Can't you just get another fungus and get all the joys(?) of growing/culturing it and maintaining it ...
23-3-2011 at 09:32
by: Fleaker
get RHODIUM out of glassware
Well, aqua regia turns red-orange on standing anyway due to the NOx produced as the NOCl decomposes. ...
23-3-2011 at 09:26
by: Fleaker
Storage of pressurized liquid SO2 in plastic containers
This is an interesting thread. It's also scary. Liquid sulfur dioxide is not something I'd ever with ...
22-3-2011 at 22:21
by: Fleaker
What is colloidal gold?
Purple of Cassius is said to be colloidal gold.

I've done it with HEPES (that made nanoparticles ...
22-3-2011 at 22:10
by: Fleaker
Hardware toluene.
Distill it and toss/burn the first 50 mL per liter (it has most of the water from the azeotrope).
22-3-2011 at 22:09
by: Fleaker
Looking For: Fluoropolymer Tubing
I love McMaster Carr. I usually get things the next day, and the people there know what they're talk ...
22-3-2011 at 22:06
by: Fleaker
get RHODIUM out of glassware
Bleach will not work.

Madscientist basically gave you your options.

Rhodium black and rhodium ...
22-3-2011 at 21:58
by: Fleaker
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