| Search |
Which is your year of birth?
I'm 14... not much of a home lab... 4 or 5 products and very scarce glassware. Home chemistry is a d ... |
28-4-2012 at 13:01
by: Eddygp |
Experiments with Cesium chloride?
@blogfast, So we finish where we had started: a vacuum is needed, along with a very high temperature ... |
28-4-2012 at 11:40
by: Eddygp |
Experiments with Cesium chloride?
The bond between Cs and oxygen might be quite complicated to break. After all, it will turn rapidly ... |
28-4-2012 at 04:17
by: Eddygp |
Experiments with Cesium chloride?
And calcinating an hydroxide would only bring up an oxide, I believe. Moreover, caesium isn't consid ... |
28-4-2012 at 01:09
by: Eddygp |
Experiments with Cesium chloride?
Not an easy isolation, that one of elemental Cs 
Maybe some electrolysis, in a solution of a cesi ... |
27-4-2012 at 13:41
by: Eddygp |
Carvacrol extraction
PS. Wikipedia:
[Carvacrol] is extracted from Origanum oil by means of a 50% potash solution. It i ... |
27-4-2012 at 13:01
by: Eddygp |
Carvacrol extraction
hmph... Thymol and carvacrol are isomers. Once you have distilled it from other easier chemicals, yo ... |
27-4-2012 at 12:58
by: Eddygp |
Experiments with Cesium chloride?
@AndersHoveland However, a vacuum is needed or something to keep the temperature at more than 1000K. ... |
27-4-2012 at 12:48
by: Eddygp |
Starting with the Rare Earths
Thanks for the help! Any properties of the salts that may be interesting to see? |
24-4-2012 at 06:43
by: Eddygp |
Starting with the Rare Earths
I would like to start doing chemistry with some of the lanthanides (rare earth metals, I mean), but ... |
22-4-2012 at 12:28
by: Eddygp |
Agar substitutes
My fungi are growing very quickly! |
20-4-2012 at 02:09
by: Eddygp |
chemistry set appreciation
Ahhh, the past... |
16-4-2012 at 11:47
by: Eddygp |
Agar substitutes
Thank you, ssdd!
I have been thinking of growing saprotrophic fungi, and will probably use that aga ... |
16-4-2012 at 00:50
by: Eddygp |
My LC Fungi
Surprising results... From a small patch of fungi, I have now dozens of little mycelium dots scatter ... |
14-4-2012 at 09:29
by: Eddygp |
Agar substitutes
I managed to grow some white mycelium with a LC of my invention. It uses some sugar, a bit of (pH-ne ... |
9-4-2012 at 02:06
by: Eddygp |
So it's hydrated silica gel and... what?
I made this reaction with waterglass and acetic acid to form a gelatinous precipitate. However, I us ... |
4-4-2012 at 03:18
by: Eddygp |
Agar substitutes
Wow! Those fungi are amazing, Yeti! I wonder if it would grow on a LC with milk...
I will see if ... |
3-4-2012 at 12:49
by: Eddygp |
This is compete chemophobia.
Potassium permanganate isn't nearly as toxic as carbon monoxide, and whenever a kid walks behind a c ... |
3-4-2012 at 08:44
by: Eddygp |
Obtaining Thymol
Hello again.
Does anyone know any method to obtain thymol? I have been looking at the possibility o ... |
1-4-2012 at 13:08
by: Eddygp |
Pretty Pictures (1)
Just have been looking at those GIANT and INCREDIBLE samples of Cs and Rb and... I took a look at my ... |
1-4-2012 at 13:04
by: Eddygp |
Reaction Ideas
2Na + Cl2 = 2NaCl
'Activate' the reaction by adding a drop of water on the sodium in a chlorine a ... |
1-4-2012 at 08:16
by: Eddygp |
Reaction Ideas
Making salt out of sugar!
3NaClO4 + C6H12O6 = 6H2O + 6CO2 + 3NaCl
EDIT: In aqueous solution
[Ed ... |
1-4-2012 at 05:45
by: Eddygp |
Sulfuryl chloride
How can I make sulfuryl chloride?
I have been looking up for some chemicals and I have seen this ... |
31-3-2012 at 13:45
by: Eddygp |
copper silicate?
Although this looks more like a strange hypothetical reaction to form a possible compound, it is pos ... |
31-3-2012 at 13:32
by: Eddygp |
Copper(II) oxide and carbon monoxide
The reaction between CuO and CO forms copper and carbon dioxide. Would this make copper(II) oxide su ... |
31-3-2012 at 09:21
by: Eddygp |
