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Extracting copper and nickel from a coin
I'm fairly sure that, like AgI, CuI will dissolve in a solution of Na2S2O3
2-5-2020 at 05:47
by: unionised
Removing orange dye from sodium silicate solution?
I suspect that you might be trying to remove Fe(III) by oxidation.
Good luck.
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2-5-2020 at 05:34
by: unionised
Old bath oil is... fluorescent!
Something that is brightly fluorescent probably doesn't contain much fluorescent material.


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30-4-2020 at 06:49
by: unionised
Evaporating bleach - what would come out?
If you dry bleach there's a fair to middling chance that you will get salt.
Bleach slowly evolves ...
26-4-2020 at 09:57
by: unionised
Quantitative preparation of boric acid (from borax)
I think methanol would be a better bet than IPA.
Also, now that I think of it, it's probably better ...
26-4-2020 at 03:35
by: unionised
Quantitative preparation of boric acid (from borax)
Crystalise out the boric acid as far as you can.
Then dry the solution down to form crystalline sod ...
26-4-2020 at 02:18
by: unionised
Storage of lead azide
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keep in a 100ml Pyrex reagent bottle



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23-4-2020 at 09:21
by: unionised
COVID-19 heat resistance ?
[rquote=634617&tid=155230&author=MadHatter]140-degree Fahrenheit temperatures typically
use ...
23-4-2020 at 03:53
by: unionised
Accurate DIY solubility measuring
Dissolves solids meters make the assumption that all materials have the same conductivity.
That's n ...
22-4-2020 at 06:39
by: unionised
Use For Menthol?
I sometimes wondered if it could be used like camphor in Rast's method for measuring molar masses.
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19-4-2020 at 01:53
by: unionised
Chemical attack inside the flask
The silica gell beads you get in little bags that say "do not eat" do a much better job as boiling c ...
18-4-2020 at 12:23
by: unionised
Was shipped wrong item, got a bottle of glucose instead of choline chloride. Anything cool I can do with glucose?
Fermentation and distillation?
18-4-2020 at 04:06
by: unionised
Potassium Hexacyanochromate III
Cr(II) is a pretty strong reducing agent. In alkaline conditions it's quite capable of reducing wate ...
13-4-2020 at 06:50
by: unionised
Chemical separation challenge
To a fair approximation, alcohol will dissolve the urea, but leave the others behind.

There are t ...
12-4-2020 at 02:44
by: unionised
Hand sanitizer ratio
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I also asked the maker of the formula if they knew ...
10-4-2020 at 16:29
by: unionised
heating media's for heat bath ?!
At a pinch, you can use cooking oil.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke_point
or engine oil
http ...
10-4-2020 at 05:22
by: unionised
Why have different colour lids?
Duran bottles use blue and red to colour code the material from which the lid is made
red for polyb ...
7-4-2020 at 12:41
by: unionised
Make Phosphoric acid
It is almost certainly possible to make HCl by heating KCl with H3PO4
(by analogy with one of the ...
4-4-2020 at 03:30
by: unionised
benzyl alcohol + sulphuric acid = ?
benzyl alcohol + sulphuric acid = tar.

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3-4-2020 at 11:24
by: unionised
Potassium Hexacyanochromate III
The one problem I foresee is that the pH might be a impossible
Cr(II) isn't very stable at the best ...
31-3-2020 at 09:49
by: unionised
Leuckart reaction with oxalic acid
Probably, but paraformaldehyde is cheaper than permanganate.
31-3-2020 at 09:44
by: unionised
Leuckart reaction with oxalic acid
I'd avoid the oxidation by permanganate since it also attacks formic acid.
31-3-2020 at 08:29
by: unionised
Leuckart reaction with oxalic acid
[rquote=633339&tid=155102&author=clearly_not_atara]You can also make formic acid from oxalic ...
31-3-2020 at 08:27
by: unionised
Leuckart reaction with oxalic acid
"Primary and secondary amines are N-methylated by a mixture of paraformaldehyde..."

Just for a st ...
30-3-2020 at 10:39
by: unionised
Potassium Hexacyanochromate III
Exchange of ligands on Cr(III) is notoriously slow.
Is it worth considering reduction to Cr(II) the ...
30-3-2020 at 08:16
by: unionised
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