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Isopropyl peroxide ?
Just to add to the complexity of the question, aldehydes form peroxides too.
20-12-2003 at 04:22
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unconventional sodium
Na doens't alloy with steel. OTOH if that little hole gets bunged up you have made a complicate ...
20-12-2003 at 04:12
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Power Source
You can get a 35Amp bridge rectifier for £1.29
How much current do you need?
19-12-2003 at 16:20
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Anhydrous metal chlorides with NH4Cl?
NH4Cl crystalises as such, not as a hydrate.
Some metal chloride (eg CuCl2, FeCl3) would be reduce ...
19-12-2003 at 16:09
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What Was this Substance?
Chemoleo,
Sulphur is an oxidising agent. Polysulphide is another.
The reaction mixture containin ...
19-12-2003 at 16:00
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Preparation of cyanides
The first drop of Ag+ solution will preciptate AgCN and go cloudy. I'm not sure if the chromate ...
18-12-2003 at 12:39
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Copper Sulfate
You can make H2SO4 that way, I used to electrolyse copper sulphate till most of the blue colour had ...
18-12-2003 at 12:28
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Calcium Sulphide
Classic synthesis is gypsum and coke.
Just hope that the gypsum you use has the right imputities to ...
18-12-2003 at 12:21
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Ni from coins
Here is a place to start
http://yarchive.net/metal/electroless_nickel.html
18-12-2003 at 12:15
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What Was this Substance?
Al foil is not pure Al. There are other metals in it, notably copper and iron the last time I checke ...
18-12-2003 at 12:07
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Need som help
The powder in dry- powder fire extinguishers is NaHCO3.
Perhaps the police should have asked the fi ...
17-12-2003 at 13:25
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Make soda beta-albumin ceramics ?
There is a sodium aluminate that used to be thought to be another crystal form of alumina (so called ...
15-12-2003 at 16:06
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Best and worst smelling chemicals?
Linalool is one of the nice ones too.
AFAIK the smell of petrol is largely due to benzene. I guess ...
15-12-2003 at 16:02
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alternate mescaline synthesis
For some strange reason the chemical "Nitromethane" has sprung into my mind.
15-12-2003 at 15:57
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SnCl4
Oh no it's not, you have your oxidation states muddled.

BTW a useful trick for drying gases ...
15-12-2003 at 15:49
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Hydrazine
I can only think of one reason for not citing the yield of the reaction, and it's the same reas ...
14-12-2003 at 12:49
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Betadine/povidone-iodine
No, you still need an oxidant.
14-12-2003 at 11:25
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Can't make CuO
Erm, Did I misunderstand the bit about filtration being a bitch?
Anyway, why not use hydrated CuSO4 ...
14-12-2003 at 04:25
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NaNO2 failure
Would someone care to balance the equation for NO please?
14-12-2003 at 04:20
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alternate mescaline synthesis
Who mentioned the aldehyde?
Anyway, isolated double bonds are suprisingly resistant to reduction by ...
13-12-2003 at 16:16
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Ideas for first experiment?
If you produce something that stinks as bad as butyric acid as your first reaction, your parents mig ...
13-12-2003 at 16:09
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Can't make CuO
A couple of points,
1 Why carefully remove the water, then add water?
2 It seems to me that the r ...
13-12-2003 at 14:11
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NaNO2 failure
Would someone care to balance the equation
NO2 + Na2CO3 --> CO2 + Na NO2

And do be careful d ...
13-12-2003 at 13:57
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alternate mescaline synthesis
It might not be the end of the world if it did preferentially reduce the carboxylic acid group. I� ...
13-12-2003 at 03:47
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unconventional sodium
Sand will react with Mg or with KOH or with K.
Perhaps something innert would be better. MgO for ex ...
13-12-2003 at 03:35
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