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Lead sulfate to carbonate
I have done this reaction to get lead acetate from old batteries. It does work but you have to grind ...
24-4-2006 at 12:33
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The Smell of Iron, Copper
Interesting question, and one I have wondered about before. Google didn't give me an answer.
The sm ...
23-4-2006 at 07:02
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Nicotine
I'm pretty sure that practically all the world's nicotine is extraced from tobacco so it must be che ...
22-4-2006 at 05:13
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Nuclear Reactions
"The implosion system for a Pu or U core is also going to be a problem. "
Unless you do it the easy ...
15-4-2006 at 05:05
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Nuclear Reactions
"Actually a_bab liquid air woud be quite trivial in a garage, as would be an arc furnace."
Have you ...
14-4-2006 at 12:33
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Unusual Chemicals, what to do with them ...?
I haven't checked nitrosomorpholine but I know a lot of the nitrosamines are carcinogenic. That make ...
14-4-2006 at 11:01
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Preperation of powdered Iron
"That's becuase some CO is produced in the flame and it reduces the CuO to Cu"
Er, how exactly does ...
14-4-2006 at 10:55
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AC and DC Electrolysis
AC electrolysis is not often useful, but it's hardly "bullshit". If I wanted to disolve some relativ ...
6-4-2006 at 09:24
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Crystal Growing
Not as big as some natural crystals but very impressive, and the clarity...
NaClO3 IIRC forms cryst ...
28-3-2006 at 12:22
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Crystal Growing
"For a really neat effect you can even grow a chrome alum crystal and use it as a seed to grow a cle ...
23-3-2006 at 12:29
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Sulfuric acid from copper salts.
It's an interesting idea. particularly since
2CuCl+ 2HCl +O2 --> 2CuCl2 + H2O
so you could mak ...
23-3-2006 at 12:23
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Vinegar to Glacial Acetic Acid Via Charcoal
Loss of residual CO2 perhaps?
Since vinegar is made from fermented stuff it's quite possible that s ...
23-3-2006 at 12:14
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Simple distillation question
"In order to avoid this I've been adding the boiling stones a couple of degrees below boiling point ...
22-3-2006 at 09:59
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Simple distillation question
The moral is add fresh boiling stones FIRST.
Don't wait until it's nearly boiling or you risk mis-j ...
21-3-2006 at 13:25
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Purity of store bought distilled water
My 1963 copy of the British pharmacopoea gives details of testing glass vessels for alkalinity by ex ...
21-3-2006 at 13:02
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Patriot Act or War on Drugs
If I wanted to raise money for a terrorist group I would think about doing it by selling drugs. It's ...
19-3-2006 at 07:38
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Purity of store bought distilled water
I guess the stuff left behind was extracted from the plastic so there's a fair chance that it's phth ...
19-3-2006 at 02:48
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low pressure chemistry/ vacuum question
I wouldn't want to try running a soxhlet extraction under vacuum- those fiddly shaped bits of glass ...
19-3-2006 at 02:32
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Neuraminidase Inhibitor Synthesis
The synthesis has 13 steps. If the yield is 75% at each stage (which would be good going for a lot o ...
15-3-2006 at 12:59
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Iodides and ozone
I think that's an "iealised" equation. For a start, iodine reacts with strong bases (Like K2O). For ...
12-3-2006 at 01:59
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Supercritical Methanol - mild steel compatibility?
My best guess would be
Fe +H2O --> H2 +FeO.
(That was refreshingly easy to balance). That reac ...
8-3-2006 at 13:32
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extracting copper
I understand that; some of the others here seem to be struggling with that concept.

Does the cont ...
7-3-2006 at 12:52
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Supercritical Methanol - mild steel compatibility?
I realise this isn't exactly a propper reference but I remember an engineer who worked on HPLC syste ...
7-3-2006 at 12:47
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Metabolization of hairs?
Find something that eats hair (like moth larvae) ; feed the hair to the larvae. Eat them!:D
5-3-2006 at 13:15
by: unionised
chloral hydrate synthesis
"If you just want a sedative "
Drink the rum.:D
5-3-2006 at 13:07
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