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Ever nearly dispatched oneself?
Well, I've never had a near-fatal experience, but I had a very unpleasant incident happen a few mont ...
26-11-2006 at 07:06
by: Pyrovus
Thallium poisoning
[quote]
Either the 210 Po is in fact rather clever *or* a red herring. 210Po would have the advanta ...
25-11-2006 at 07:52
by: Pyrovus
Ethanoic Acid
With the admitted exception of the wikipedia article, all the places I've seen oxidation number defi ...
25-11-2006 at 07:37
by: Pyrovus
Error
I've been getting it too - it seems to happen completely randomly.
18-11-2006 at 21:49
by: Pyrovus
The Halogens and Alkalis Confined! (Pictures)
[quote][i]Originally posted by JohnWW[/i]
Halogens? How about trying to get your hands on some asta ...
18-11-2006 at 19:46
by: Pyrovus
Floating Apple Trick
I think this quote demonstrates how credible that is.

[quote]So why do we have to use an apple? A ...
17-11-2006 at 23:40
by: Pyrovus
Ethanoic Acid
I have to disagree with that.

Oxidation number is determined by considering what the charge would ...
17-11-2006 at 19:14
by: Pyrovus
Butyric Acid - Synthesis/Extraction
One potential problem with electrolysis of ethanol is that it might produce significant quantities o ...
6-11-2006 at 23:57
by: Pyrovus
Is this an aromatic compound ?
That compound is aromatic. By redrawing it like this it should become apparent. Hopefully this image ...
16-10-2006 at 16:26
by: Pyrovus
chemistry
It really depends on the stochiometry anyway. Too much H2SO4 and you'll get sodium bisulphate instea ...
29-9-2006 at 04:49
by: Pyrovus
non fuming swimming pool acid?
It might be a solution of NaHSO4. They often use that as a pH reducer, although usually in the solid ...
23-9-2006 at 03:18
by: Pyrovus
Inducing mutations
I'm planning to do some accelerated evolution experiments (probably with yeast), and to do so I'm go ...
18-9-2006 at 03:31
by: Pyrovus
Acetone fluorohydrin
For a while I've been toying with the idea of trying to react sodium fluoride with acetone, to see t ...
18-9-2006 at 03:21
by: Pyrovus
Salts of protonated hydrogen.
Actually, I was referring to H3+ i.e. three protons and two electrons, the whole system joined toget ...
27-8-2006 at 16:41
by: Pyrovus
Salts of protonated hydrogen.
I've seen the H3+ ion often mentioned as a relatively common hydrogen species in interstellar space. ...
27-8-2006 at 03:59
by: Pyrovus
What else can Uranium be used for?
For many years uranium was used to impart a nice fluorescent green colour to glass.

There's a pic ...
14-8-2006 at 03:08
by: Pyrovus
dimanganese heptaoxide based explosives
Well, according to wikipedia, the H2SO4 solution of Mn2O7 gives the cation MnO3+.

I wonder if it ...
31-7-2006 at 18:23
by: Pyrovus
Brown's gas?
Sounds like crank science to me:

[quote]
HyTech (nickname for Hydrogen Technology Applications I ...
5-7-2006 at 01:38
by: Pyrovus
Energentic Compound from NH4OH+Napthalene?
They don't generally tend to use explosive recipes that actually work in movies - after all, if they ...
1-7-2006 at 07:05
by: Pyrovus
Most corrosive agent?
This might be a bit ambitious, but anyway:

If there could be found a Lewis acid strong enough to ...
21-6-2006 at 22:07
by: Pyrovus
H2O2 + HClO4?
Perchloric acid is a strong enough oxidising agent to oxidise hydrogen peroxide to oxygen:

H[size ...
15-6-2006 at 22:53
by: Pyrovus
Handling Nitrogen Triiodide NI3
Come to think of it, I recall reading somewhere that tetrafluorohydrazine, N[size=-1]2[/size]F[size= ...
11-6-2006 at 07:57
by: Pyrovus
Ca(NO3)2
Calcium nitrate is very nice stuff, so I most definitely wouldn't throw it out. Owing to the fact th ...
11-6-2006 at 00:29
by: Pyrovus
Handling Nitrogen Triiodide NI3
How about mixed nitrogen halides, such as NClBr[size=-3]2[/size]? Could they be expected to be inter ...
11-6-2006 at 00:15
by: Pyrovus
Liquid azides
There's always the simplest of the azides, hydrogen azide, which is a liquid boiling at 30°C. It's ...
7-6-2006 at 23:01
by: Pyrovus
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