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Lab Glassware acquisition rant
In my quest to build myself a nice, functional lab for my modest chemistry work, I have been frustra ... |
3-12-2010 at 15:19
by: Arthur Dent |
Make Potassium (from versuchschemie.de)
Shellsol D70 has a composition of 60% parrafins and 40% Naphtenes, according to Shell's data sheet. ... |
2-12-2010 at 09:17
by: Arthur Dent |
Make Potassium (from versuchschemie.de)
Interesting experiment. What would be the simplest apparatus/setup to "reflux" the process?
The i ... |
2-12-2010 at 08:13
by: Arthur Dent |
Lime green solution...
Shweeet!
I guess I have my work cut out this weekend, really cool project! I happen to have a nic ... |
30-11-2010 at 10:02
by: Arthur Dent |
Lime green solution...
Thanks for the tip about DVDs, I didn't know that. I do know that the very small plastic-encased len ... |
29-11-2010 at 07:07
by: Arthur Dent |
Lime green solution...
blogfast25 said: "trust me that if I had some ‘CSI Miami style’ stuff I’d have peeked by now!" ... |
29-11-2010 at 04:59
by: Arthur Dent |
Copper Chloride question
Wow! Thanks Woelen!
A fascinating series of experiments, showing how Cu reagents with Cl give unu ... |
27-11-2010 at 10:50
by: Arthur Dent |
Copper Chloride question
Success!!!
I had a feeling I needed to oxidize somehow the solution...
So I quickly pulled out ... |
27-11-2010 at 09:52
by: Arthur Dent |
Copper Chloride question
I have an odd little problem, I wanted to synthetize some copper chloride, so I used fairly pure che ... |
27-11-2010 at 06:57
by: Arthur Dent |
Iron Oxide question
Looks great, blogfast25!
I'll do my FeCl3 by the way of peroxide as you suggested, I'm overly ca ... |
24-11-2010 at 17:14
by: Arthur Dent |
Teaching my wife Organic Chemistry!
Two words:
Molecular gastronomy!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_gastronomy
Basica ... |
24-11-2010 at 09:42
by: Arthur Dent |
Sulfuric acid purification
One trick I use to retrieve acid from my 2.5l jug of H2SO4 is to use a plastic graduated pipette, an ... |
24-11-2010 at 05:30
by: Arthur Dent |
Royal Society giving free access to papers this week
I've downloaded a few interesting journals on iodine and reagent synthesis, but there is so much inf ... |
24-11-2010 at 05:04
by: Arthur Dent |
Lime green solution...
Indeed the green color of your solution is intense. I've made some Nickel Chloride by dropping a few ... |
23-11-2010 at 17:47
by: Arthur Dent |
Ferrous Chloride
After Blogfast25's recommendation, I have tried the trick of dissolving steel wool pads directly in ... |
20-11-2010 at 08:03
by: Arthur Dent |
precious metal refining
Maybe KCN is efficient for that purpose but I would never want to work with that stuff, even with a ... |
18-11-2010 at 19:45
by: Arthur Dent |
filtering a Zinc Chloride solution
That's excellent! I'll try that... but definitely an "outdoors only" kind of experiment. Until I man ... |
16-11-2010 at 18:00
by: Arthur Dent |
filtering a Zinc Chloride solution
@blogfast25: Thanks for the info, I'll have some excess HCl in my solution since the zinc was still ... |
15-11-2010 at 16:57
by: Arthur Dent |
filtering a Zinc Chloride solution
Good to know, I'll filter my solution with a plain coffee filter. I do have a box of "grade 40" What ... |
14-11-2010 at 07:27
by: Arthur Dent |
filtering a Zinc Chloride solution
Thanks for your reply!
I am unsure as to the current concentration of the solution so far, but i ... |
12-11-2010 at 13:09
by: Arthur Dent |
filtering a Zinc Chloride solution
Hi all,
I have stumbled upon a bit of a problem synthetizing ZnCl2. I wanted to prepare a soluti ... |
12-11-2010 at 11:28
by: Arthur Dent |
Iron Oxide question
@ peach: I wasn't aware of that H2SO4/H2O2 process. I'll have to try that.
The only other PCB etc ... |
29-10-2010 at 10:13
by: Arthur Dent |
Iron Oxide question
Thank you for your suggestion! You're right, the process you described saves me from the step of mak ... |
24-10-2010 at 08:36
by: Arthur Dent |
Iron Oxide question
Hi all!
First post here, this is a great forum, chock full of great info. Among my numerous hobbi ... |
23-10-2010 at 14:07
by: Arthur Dent |
