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I'll help you out Jor!
Start over.

Your failure was improper removal of free chlorine from the solution. Also, you will ...
16-1-2011 at 15:14
by: Fleaker
Isocyanide Synthesis
Isocyanides and isocyanates are both bad news. I'd keep the hell away from them in an amateur settin ...
12-1-2011 at 09:20
by: Fleaker
Alkoxide salts
Seriously vulture? I suppose this is true if you throw a large brick of sodium into a small volume o ...
4-1-2011 at 16:56
by: Fleaker
Platinum Recovery
You would do well to avoid heating chloroplatinic acid if you want to avoid metal losses.

See my ...
2-1-2011 at 11:58
by: Fleaker
Cesium from CsCl
In my experience, K/Na alloy is worse than elemental cesium because it is spontaneously flammable wi ...
25-12-2010 at 14:20
by: Fleaker
palladium sponge
Oxidation/Reduction.

Technically, you're not supposed to store GAA and 16M or greater HNO3 in the ...
22-12-2010 at 07:48
by: Fleaker
palladium sponge
[rquote=196020&tid=15123&author=mr.crow]Would a nitric acid/acetic acid solution work? I hav ...
21-12-2010 at 20:54
by: Fleaker
Make Potassium (from versuchschemie.de)
Len,

Thank you for doing the experiment! I was more excited reading your post than watching the g ...
17-12-2010 at 15:11
by: Fleaker
lithium and what to do with it
Simplest test is density. Potassium is much denser than lithium is.
15-12-2010 at 18:43
by: Fleaker
Calcium metal by chemical means
Sadly, no.

If anyone has any ideas, post them up!

I don't think anyone here has ever synthed c ...
15-12-2010 at 18:37
by: Fleaker
lithium and what to do with it
Molten lithium is phenomenally corrosive to glass and ceramics.

@Hkparker, that is most likely wh ...
15-12-2010 at 18:36
by: Fleaker
Boc protection of amines - Mono or Di?
I've had the same thing happen--it is certainly too much DMAP.
15-12-2010 at 17:10
by: Fleaker
Hardware store solvents
The solvents were in 1 gallon metal tins marked as fuel and the hydride was in some sort of canister ...
15-12-2010 at 17:05
by: Fleaker
Make Potassium (from versuchschemie.de)
@blogfast25:
2-methyl-2-butanol is seemingly more reactive than t-butyl alcohol. I don't think that ...
15-12-2010 at 17:03
by: Fleaker
lithium and what to do with it
[rquote=195205&tid=15061&author=blogfast25]There exist many other such ‘anomalies’ that ...
15-12-2010 at 16:42
by: Fleaker
Hardware store solvents
Actually, I've found n-hexane, n-heptane, cyclohexane, and calcium hydride at the local military sur ...
15-12-2010 at 08:21
by: Fleaker
Make Potassium (from versuchschemie.de)
@Len, chill out! If this is utter bunk, it'll be ferreted out. I doubt that it's entirely hogwash. Y ...
15-12-2010 at 08:15
by: Fleaker
Make Potassium (from versuchschemie.de)
I reckon the water present in the KOH probably also activates the surface and any in situ KtBuO is m ...
5-12-2010 at 19:15
by: Fleaker
Make Potassium (from versuchschemie.de)
Such a cheap, low temperature route to potassium metal needs to be confirmed. I think that diesel co ...
5-12-2010 at 17:15
by: Fleaker
Where can I go with my degree?
[rquote=193487&tid=14931&author=DDTea][rquote=193478&tid=14931&author=Panache]after ...
30-11-2010 at 15:40
by: Fleaker
Steel retort design for making Na metal for review
[rquote=187966&tid=14491&author=peach]I'm right in the middle of trying to make sparkly glow ...
22-9-2010 at 17:08
by: Fleaker
metalsmith
I do lost wax casting. I have some Kerr-satin cast that I no longer use if you'd like it; just pay s ...
14-9-2010 at 15:24
by: Fleaker
Easy silylation?
I just Rain-X'd my car windshield when I was immediately struck by the idea that it's probably some ...
12-9-2010 at 12:01
by: Fleaker
LET THIS SIGNAL THE END OF THE FRIDGE PUMP QUESTIONS!
"I suck very hard"--peach.

^ Just kidding. Kudos to him for actually showing his face. That shoul ...
7-9-2010 at 18:38
by: Fleaker
Carbon nanotubes wanted
Have fun running the column on those.

You'll pay through the nose on the SWCNTs.

Are you in t ...
1-9-2010 at 18:28
by: Fleaker
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