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Failed HBr distillation...
I'd still like to know what distilled off at over 100C.
Can't have been pure water.
Can't have bee ...
1-7-2006 at 04:15
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Decomposition of sulfamate
"I searched google and found that salts of sulfamic acid produce NOx and SOx."
Was this froma safet ...
1-7-2006 at 04:11
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I need $20 worth of Gallium!
I just did a Google search for gallium mdhs. I didn't see anything scary. The oxide poisons mice if ...
29-6-2006 at 10:07
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A "new", old idea for a HV pulse generator.
Don't forget to take account of exactly god-knows-how-much inductance. That might limit the current/ ...
28-6-2006 at 11:54
by: unionised
Carboxymethylcellulose
"Try biological washing powders...which should contain cellulase, the enzyme." I doubt that. Has any ...
28-6-2006 at 11:46
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A "new", old idea for a HV pulse generator.
I think that the intrinsic problem (never mind the practical ones) is that lightning isn't fast enou ...
27-6-2006 at 10:55
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Condensation
"Sorry for posting that horrible sentence - but I'm an asshole and can't help it."
OK, that makes 2 ...
27-6-2006 at 09:30
by: unionised
Old IR Spec Equipment
The one we got rid of was a Nicolet and it was a pig (and it certainly wasn't cheap).
26-6-2006 at 11:07
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Water to Fire....
Spitting red hot bits of Al are dangerous even if you don't breath them. The AlI3 vapour probably do ...
26-6-2006 at 11:02
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Weird compound
I wondered about ethanol oxidised to the aldehyde reacting to give the aldol. Dehydration and oxidat ...
26-6-2006 at 10:47
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friedel crafts to make 1,4 dicarbonyl?
I'm sure the reduction can be done.
(It's the Rosemund reduction if you go via the acid chloride. ...
26-6-2006 at 10:11
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Condensation
I can't find the data for triethylamine in acetonitrile but for the trimethylamine the pkb is about ...
26-6-2006 at 10:03
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Condensation
OK, here's the definition.
"A condensation reaction (also known as a dehydration reaction or dehydr ...
24-6-2006 at 04:11
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friedel crafts to make 1,4 dicarbonyl?
I seem to recall reacting succinic anhydride with toluene to get 4 (p methylphenyl) 4 oxo butyric a ...
24-6-2006 at 01:01
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Condensation
"B****y --> Bloody ? "
Yep.

I agree that's probably the mechanism (Some Sn1 contribution woul ...
24-6-2006 at 00:55
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Old IR Spec Equipment
We got a new one in about 1992, it's still running well. It replaced one that was old enough to keep ...
23-6-2006 at 00:35
by: unionised
Iron Sulfate from pills
"Well, I think I will just use the pills, everything except the iron sulfate is insoluble. If I boil ...
23-6-2006 at 00:28
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benzyl alcohol oxidation
Is the by- product of that reaction dimethyl sulphide?
If so please don't do it when I'm anywhere n ...
23-6-2006 at 00:21
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Moisture removal in n-Butanol
This still leaves you with a waste disposal problem (polluted salty water). You might recover the sa ...
23-6-2006 at 00:16
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Condensation
It B****y well is a condensation reaction.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condensation_reaction
23-6-2006 at 00:04
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Cobalt Chloride
Fe+++ is more toxic than most people give it credit for (though it's not as bad as Cu, Co, and Ni).
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22-6-2006 at 23:53
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Complexing iron salts
Ascorbic acid is fairly weak so sodium ascorbate is quite alkaline. That means that the products of ...
22-6-2006 at 23:48
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Cobalt Chloride
If you want to get it from a fairly ordinary shop (rather than a specialist supplier) you might be a ...
22-6-2006 at 03:11
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A "new", old idea for a HV pulse generator.
Are we talking about this sort of thing?
http://fusor.net/board/view.php?site=fusor&bn=fusor_hv ...
20-6-2006 at 10:23
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Drying ethanol via ester hydrolysis.
It seems to have taken a while but someone has finally spotted that you can separate alcohol from wa ...
20-6-2006 at 08:55
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