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How to make relatively pure AlCl3
Aliphatic halogenated solvents and reactive metals are always a bad idea.
Chloroform explodes when ...
17-10-2011 at 08:22
by: ScienceSquirrel
Unexpected problems with p-TsOH synthesis
Organic chemistry is very much about 'recipes'.
The right proportions, solvent and reaction conditi ...
17-10-2011 at 07:30
by: ScienceSquirrel
extraction of salicin from willow bark
Pure salicin could be produced by solvent extraction and precipitation of the tannins as above follo ...
17-10-2011 at 06:23
by: ScienceSquirrel
Making Lithium Carbide
Lithium carbide is the only carbide formed by reaction of lithium metal and a suitable carbon source ...
17-10-2011 at 06:12
by: ScienceSquirrel
Synthesis of Nickel Acetate?
Laws making the destruction of money illegal date back to when it was made of precious metals.
If t ...
14-10-2011 at 06:57
by: ScienceSquirrel
Tutorial for making a miniature chlorate cell
I might be wrong as it is decades since I did any electrochemistry but;

According to this a 9V ba ...
14-10-2011 at 05:15
by: ScienceSquirrel
Chemical inventory
I run a small brewery as a weekend business / hobby and I have the licences to manufacture and sell ...
13-10-2011 at 07:04
by: ScienceSquirrel
Preparation of Sodium persulfate
Ammonium, potassium, and sodium persulphates are readily available for etching PCB's.
You can buy h ...
13-10-2011 at 03:55
by: ScienceSquirrel
Chemical inventory
I am not sure why you would want to buy those chemicals on that scale unless you want to make seriou ...
13-10-2011 at 03:31
by: ScienceSquirrel
Magnesium nitrate
You are better off using the solubility table here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solubility_table whe ...
12-10-2011 at 03:27
by: ScienceSquirrel
Chloroform -> Formic Acid
The reaction with ethanol involves initial oxidation to acetaldehyde (ethanal ) this then forms chlo ...
11-10-2011 at 08:30
by: ScienceSquirrel
Making Lithium Carbide
I doubt it will act as a reducing agent. What makes you think that it will?
10-10-2011 at 09:35
by: ScienceSquirrel
Making Lithium Carbide
I could ask why?
Calcium carbide is readily available and reacts with water to form acetylene.
10-10-2011 at 09:26
by: ScienceSquirrel
How much methanol?
I suspect that the exact legal position is a grey area.
Your parents bought it for you and you have ...
7-10-2011 at 09:03
by: ScienceSquirrel
Hexamine Solution Decomposition?
Have you seen the solubility?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexamine
You are going to have to boil ...
3-10-2011 at 07:54
by: ScienceSquirrel
A new sulphate salt
If there were traces of base in the sodium sulphate they would not be detectable by the pH meter but ...
3-10-2011 at 07:50
by: ScienceSquirrel
Reducing Sodium Sulfate to its Sulfite
[rquote=223295&tid=17658&author=rstar]What would happen if Na2SO4 is reacted with elementary ...
29-9-2011 at 07:45
by: ScienceSquirrel
Sodium carbonate?
I do it using a beaker and a heating mantle.
Add the weighed sodium carbonate to the beaker, heat u ...
29-9-2011 at 05:45
by: ScienceSquirrel
Reducing Sodium Sulfate to its Sulfite
If you want the suphite, just add sodium hydroxide in the calculated amount to a solution of the met ...
29-9-2011 at 05:23
by: ScienceSquirrel
Phenothiazine
If you were going to make thorazine you would not start from phenothiazine.
See here for the synthe ...
29-9-2011 at 05:00
by: ScienceSquirrel
Sodium carbonate?
Just put it in a pyrex dish and bake it in the oven at 300 C, the powder seems to boil as the carbon ...
29-9-2011 at 04:55
by: ScienceSquirrel
How to dry various solvents
It also rips the shit out of most things organic turning into a yucky black gel of phosphoric acid i ...
29-9-2011 at 04:32
by: ScienceSquirrel
synthesis of white phosphorous from red phosphorous
Given the relative toxicity and flammability of red and white phosphorous I think it is better to ma ...
29-9-2011 at 03:58
by: ScienceSquirrel
Reducing Sodium Sulfate to its Sulfite
Sulphite is a lot easier to reduce than sulphate so you will not form sulphite by reducing sulphate, ...
29-9-2011 at 03:47
by: ScienceSquirrel
Types of Glucose?
Glucose monohydrate is cheaply and readily available at most pharmacies, supermarkets and home brew ...
28-9-2011 at 03:21
by: ScienceSquirrel
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