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Possible to make Tartaric acid from Cream of Tartar?
The last time I checked, surgical spirit had things like castor oil, methyl salicylate, and diethyl ...
28-10-2012 at 06:57
by: unionised
Possible to make Tartaric acid from Cream of Tartar?
I meant ethanol, but I think IPA would also work.
28-10-2012 at 02:34
by: unionised
Possible to make Tartaric acid from Cream of Tartar?
There's another route. Add a slight excess HCl which produces tartaric acid + salt then dry the sol ...
28-10-2012 at 01:51
by: unionised
Seismologists Were Found Guilty of Manslaughter
Why are they not prosecuting all the priests who also failed to predict the quake?
23-10-2012 at 10:40
by: unionised
Oxidation of naphthalene with nitric acid
I think that the reference in that old book to oxidation to phthalic and oxalic acids is included as ...
21-10-2012 at 06:02
by: unionised
Potassium Free Sawdust?
Wash the sawdust before you use it.
20-10-2012 at 10:55
by: unionised
Potassium Free Sawdust?
You could wash a lot of the potassium out of sawdust with water.
20-10-2012 at 09:14
by: unionised
What scale is this hydrometer ?
I think it's for antifreeze.
Adding ethylene glycol to water will raise the density of the solution ...
14-10-2012 at 04:02
by: unionised
Organic Chem, Triphenyl Methanol.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbocation
might help too.
10-10-2012 at 12:19
by: unionised
Purifying this store bought ammonia
If the cloudy stuff was sodium carbonate, it would dissolve to give a clear solution.
I suspect it ...
9-10-2012 at 11:44
by: unionised
Identify these bottles!
I'm glad you are wearing gloves.

Those sorts of bottles are very expensive and so they only get u ...
5-10-2012 at 08:53
by: unionised
oxygen removal
That might explain why permeation systems seem more popular for N2 generators.
5-10-2012 at 08:22
by: unionised
oxygen removal
[rquote=261206&tid=21626&author=watson.fawkes][rquote=261177&tid=21626&author=imsmoo ...
5-10-2012 at 04:00
by: unionised
Ester nomenclature being used wrong?
Weird!
This "So, the USA is responsible for the rest of the world being incredibly overpopulated?" ...
5-10-2012 at 03:51
by: unionised
oxygen removal
I think the cheapest way to remove oxygen is probably to use wet iron.
Unfortunately the reaction i ...
4-10-2012 at 12:14
by: unionised
Suitable drying agents
The usual method is to react phosphorus with oxygen.
4-10-2012 at 11:59
by: unionised
Starch fermenting yeast
"I started a wild yeast last week, one collected from the bottom of a bag of black beans that had be ...
4-10-2012 at 10:02
by: unionised
Ester nomenclature being used wrong?
[rquote=261034&tid=21613&author=triplepoint][rquote=261032&tid=21613&author=Lambda-E ...
3-10-2012 at 12:00
by: unionised
Suitable drying agents
Calcium oxide is a much stronger base than sodium hydroxide.

It is used commercially for removing ...
2-10-2012 at 12:06
by: unionised
Beware "Deionised" water
Depending on what the local tap water is like, the water from a dehumidifier might be a good materia ...
30-9-2012 at 12:00
by: unionised
Exotic Golden Powder compositions
Am I the only one who read this
"The solid golden cake can be crushed with a motar and pestile saf ...
30-9-2012 at 11:59
by: unionised
Make or extract Pure Trisodium phosphate
How about adding H3PO4 to the mixed sesquicarbonate/phosphate and boiling to drive out CO2?

29-9-2012 at 12:18
by: unionised
How stupid can you get?
What were you looking for when you found that?
26-9-2012 at 12:17
by: unionised
Identifying Tetrahydrofuran (THF)
Mixes with water, but not salt water, and dissolves PVC is a fairly unusual group of characteristics ...
17-9-2012 at 13:16
by: unionised
Rotary vane pump during distillation question
[rquote=259502&tid=21471&author=leu]The vacuum has to be applied continuously since vapors a ...
16-9-2012 at 01:31
by: unionised
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