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Bad Habits In The Lab
I usually work without gloves. If it's hydrochloric acid I'm working with, no repercussions follow: ... |
8-12-2015 at 08:54
by: ave369 |
Cloudy formalin
Recently bought a bottle of formalin. I was expecting it will be transparent, but is is cloudy and m ... |
8-12-2015 at 05:12
by: ave369 |
I will now be building and testing my new Batparatus!
Some of my battery acid samples display this behaviour too. But some color I attribute to brick boil ... |
7-12-2015 at 10:41
by: ave369 |
Quick Question: Buchner funnel size
I fold a 120 mm filter paper circle in four, take scissors and round all the edges. As a result, I g ... |
7-12-2015 at 09:03
by: ave369 |
heptane in Oz ?
There are different brands of starter fluids, with different hydrocarbons. Some might have methylcyc ... |
7-12-2015 at 08:43
by: ave369 |
I will now be building and testing my new Batparatus!
Also, soon my Schott funnel and a jar of potassium dichromate arrive, and I'll be able to do more ex ... |
7-12-2015 at 00:12
by: ave369 |
I will now be building and testing my new Batparatus!
[rquote=430296&tid=64535&author=Magpie]In my part of the world Bat apparatus would be equipm ... |
7-12-2015 at 00:03
by: ave369 |
I will now be building and testing my new Batparatus!
Of course! 38% fresh battery acid. That's why it is called "the Bat". This is in fact a clumsy Engli ... |
6-12-2015 at 13:32
by: ave369 |
I will now be building and testing my new Batparatus!
Today I've run a batparatus again, on a different heat source: a camping butane stove. Everything we ... |
6-12-2015 at 07:35
by: ave369 |
Quick Question: Buchner funnel size
My own Buchner funnel is a 60 mm, and I cut out the paper circles myself. A 120 mm filter paper circ ... |
6-12-2015 at 04:07
by: ave369 |
I will now be building and testing my new Batparatus!
Russia proper is Eastern Europe. The Asian part is called Siberia, and it's... somewhat apart. |
4-12-2015 at 12:40
by: ave369 |
When Chemistry Goes Wrong
Generally, being on the meds makes me a total klutz. Casualties in my lab yesterday: funnel, drip tu ... |
4-12-2015 at 08:58
by: ave369 |
I will now be building and testing my new Batparatus!
And I'm a she, thank you very much. Still waiting patiently for the custom title "Eastern European L ... |
4-12-2015 at 08:13
by: ave369 |
I will now be building and testing my new Batparatus!
Stop arguing. I managed to distill H2SO4 in all possible senses of the word. I got several drops of ... |
4-12-2015 at 05:50
by: ave369 |
I will now be building and testing my new Batparatus!
Actually, when you distill vodka (or rather moonshine, vodka is made on giant fractionating columns) ... |
4-12-2015 at 03:02
by: ave369 |
I will now be building and testing my new Batparatus!
Ta-dam! I've tested the apparatus and it was a success: I've obtained several drops of 98% azeotropi ... |
3-12-2015 at 09:25
by: ave369 |
I will now be building and testing my new Batparatus!
[rquote=429924&tid=64535&author=Deathunter88]
Heating to ~300°C will make 85% sulphuric ... |
3-12-2015 at 07:38
by: ave369 |
I will now be building and testing my new Batparatus!
It stops at 70% when simply boiling down. This is what I call a raw acid. And this raw acid I put in ... |
3-12-2015 at 06:50
by: ave369 |
I will now be building and testing my new Batparatus!
What is the Batparatus? It is a distilling setup for sulfuric acid. If it works, it will be the fina ... |
3-12-2015 at 05:52
by: ave369 |
Spill of chromic acid - cleanup
My lab's right now messy, since I'm on meds and everything in my head is somewhat cloudy. Every now ... |
2-12-2015 at 07:17
by: ave369 |
When Chemistry Goes Wrong
[rquote=429684&tid=63645&author=MrHomeScientist]Just scrap a tire wall and some Nuka-Cola bo ... |
1-12-2015 at 23:32
by: ave369 |
When Chemistry Goes Wrong
By the way, the bung is basically okay. It merely has some bubble-like deformations in the bottom. B ... |
1-12-2015 at 23:30
by: ave369 |
RFNA and jeans
Accidentally dropped a bit of red fuming nitric acid on my jeans. I reacted immediately, washed the ... |
1-12-2015 at 13:00
by: ave369 |
When Chemistry Goes Wrong
Today, in a break between playing Fallout 4, I decided to test my brand spanking new distillation se ... |
1-12-2015 at 06:23
by: ave369 |
Concentrating hydrochloric acid
Just use a funnel-and-beaker trap and forget about suckback. |
30-11-2015 at 13:08
by: ave369 |
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