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Is this KNO3 source reliable ?
Potassium nitrate is readily available as stump remover, as a fertiliser boost for tomatoes, for hyd ...
4-1-2011 at 13:02
by: ScienceSquirrel
Co2 in beverages?
Carbon dioxide is very far from being a typical or ideal gas when dissolving in water.
Look at the ...
4-1-2011 at 09:39
by: ScienceSquirrel
Synthesis of longer chain tertiary alcohols
[rquote=197248&tid=15171&author=Eclectic]OK. Has anyone here ever heard anything about Barb ...
4-1-2011 at 08:58
by: ScienceSquirrel
Converting iodides and iodates to I2
That is not chemistry.
If you want to make a product by mixing reagents together then you have to t ...
3-1-2011 at 16:24
by: ScienceSquirrel
Alkoxide salts
Alkali metal alkoxides eg sodium methoxide, potassium t-butoxide, etc are widely used as bases or re ...
3-1-2011 at 16:04
by: ScienceSquirrel
Co2 in beverages?
Beer normally contains around 1 -2.5 times its volume of carbon dioxide depending on type and how it ...
3-1-2011 at 10:27
by: ScienceSquirrel
can a computer power supply kill you?
I have never had a shock or a tingle from a 12V supply eg car batteries and they pack quite a punch ...
25-12-2010 at 13:08
by: ScienceSquirrel
A chemical with a stifiling odour
This is one of those molecules that only a spectroscopist could love!
Back in the days when I did s ...
25-12-2010 at 11:12
by: ScienceSquirrel
Reacting steel wool with H2SO4
It is quite easy to make ferrous sulphate from steel wool but it is important to remember two things ...
25-12-2010 at 10:22
by: ScienceSquirrel
extraction an re-X without distillation suficcent?
Kind of thing you have to do a literature search on really.
It is the sort of thing that you will w ...
22-12-2010 at 15:53
by: ScienceSquirrel
I2 crystals from tinctures - The chemistry behind it
I have done this reaction and heating the solution is needed to get the reaction going.
It was a st ...
22-12-2010 at 15:40
by: ScienceSquirrel
extraction an re-X without distillation suficcent?
Meaningless question really unless you specify the reactants and the product.
Supposing I was maki ...
22-12-2010 at 15:37
by: ScienceSquirrel
Why do onions irritate eyes and smell ?
Faire l'amour is a very personal experience.
If you both like it then it is OK.

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21-12-2010 at 14:32
by: ScienceSquirrel
I2 crystals from tinctures - The chemistry behind it
I have used fine steel wool for making iron II sulphate, ferric ammonium sulphate, etc.
It is can b ...
21-12-2010 at 08:33
by: ScienceSquirrel
I2 crystals from tinctures - The chemistry behind it
[rquote=195929&tid=15095&author=User]I would like to hop in for a sec.
There is this bottle ...
21-12-2010 at 04:49
by: ScienceSquirrel
Iron oxide by electrolysis
Your best method is to start from iron II sulphate, readily available from eBay or garden centres as ...
21-12-2010 at 04:29
by: ScienceSquirrel
Dimethyl Sulfate, cheapest preparation, OTC !
Dimethyl sulphate is OK in a good hood with a high chimney at a research lab and you want good glove ...
20-12-2010 at 14:13
by: ScienceSquirrel
I2 crystals from tinctures - The chemistry behind it
Sodium hydroxide added to the tincture and then warmed to make a mixture of iodide and iodate will b ...
20-12-2010 at 12:50
by: ScienceSquirrel
Hardware store solvents
[rquote=195179&tid=15060&author=Fleaker]Actually, I've found n-hexane, n-heptane, cyclohexan ...
20-12-2010 at 10:54
by: ScienceSquirrel
I2 crystals from tinctures - The chemistry behind it
It is best to convert the iodine in the tincture to iodide if there is alcohol present so you can re ...
20-12-2010 at 09:31
by: ScienceSquirrel
Make Potassium (from versuchschemie.de)
I did not believe that it would work, I could not explain Pok's results but they seemed unlikely to ...
19-12-2010 at 15:06
by: ScienceSquirrel
I2 crystals from tinctures - The chemistry behind it
Your best way to do this is to react the tincture of iodine with fine steel wool.
This causes the r ...
18-12-2010 at 12:38
by: ScienceSquirrel
safer NG alternatives
You probably already know this. cue Michael Caine moment ;), but the propylene glycol commonly avail ...
16-12-2010 at 10:41
by: ScienceSquirrel
High surface area materials for blending mixtures of energetic materials
1) This should be in energetic materials

2) Keiselguhr, a diatomaceous earth, is used to absorb a ...
16-12-2010 at 09:20
by: ScienceSquirrel
BZ reaction problem
It is the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction, understandably called the BZ reaction as it hardly rolls of ...
16-12-2010 at 07:47
by: ScienceSquirrel
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