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Having dreams/nightmares about chemicals
I remember a dream in the last year of primary school, in which I made magnesium metal by electrolys ...
28-11-2018 at 15:09
by: phlogiston
Guess the energetic material!
Ha, beat you to it ;)
Over the weekend, I was trying to think of obscure pyrotechnic mixtures/energ ...
25-11-2018 at 13:43
by: phlogiston
Guess the energetic material!
Is it a styphnate?

Lead styphnate can have different shades of yellow/orange. Color shown seems c ...
23-11-2018 at 06:03
by: phlogiston
Air cusion micropipette - which solvents i can use
With the tips, one thing that can be annoying is that not every brand of tips perfectly fits every p ...
17-11-2018 at 13:43
by: phlogiston
Fitting a Ground Glass Joint to a Steel Plate
[rquote=553296&tid=100197&author=Mr. Rogers]Also I'm wondering why there isn't a "buy/sell" ...
16-11-2018 at 04:45
by: phlogiston
Air cusion micropipette - which solvents i can use
I've used them occasionally with many different organic solvents (including alcohols C1-C5, acetone, ...
15-11-2018 at 21:51
by: phlogiston
Recovering Silver from Silver Bromide
You added NaOH to AgBr in thiosulphate solution, yielding a solution containing silver as a complex ...
14-11-2018 at 09:03
by: phlogiston
Recovering Silver from Silver Bromide
So, you now rediscovered yourself what I posted 8 days ago.

This thread is quite interesting for ...
14-11-2018 at 06:30
by: phlogiston
electrolytic production of ethane
Here is a link to woelen's page describing the experiment:

http://woelen.homescience.net/science/ ...
8-11-2018 at 11:28
by: phlogiston
Recovering Silver from Silver Bromide
Recovering silver from spent fixer does not require any fancy or mysterious reducing agent.

I've ...
8-11-2018 at 11:20
by: phlogiston
Chemical anomalies in the public space.
Potassium chlorate must also have a pharmaceutical use, because I used to be able to buy it (decades ...
7-11-2018 at 03:57
by: phlogiston
Recovering Silver from Silver Bromide
The problem with using photolysis is that the light can not penetrate deeply into the powder. Only a ...
7-11-2018 at 03:39
by: phlogiston
High Temp Wire/Sparkplug sources? (1000c+)
Maybe smashing a light bulb is still not a bad idea, not for the filament, but for its support wires ...
6-11-2018 at 14:02
by: phlogiston
Recovering Silver from Silver Bromide
With silver chloride, an easier method is:

1) add NaOH, which converts the silver chloride into s ...
6-11-2018 at 13:24
by: phlogiston
New element in the collection: Zr
Mr Rogers, perhaps you are thinking of zirconia , ie. ZrO2?
The melting point of Zr (1855 C) is low ...
2-11-2018 at 03:54
by: phlogiston
Tired of reporting spam
Does BotKilla have a day of or did the spammers find a way to circumvent it?
I just browsed through ...
31-10-2018 at 15:21
by: phlogiston
"Broken" thermometre
Yes, exactly.
And now that we talk about this, it seems to me that the -gas bubbles- will be able t ...
26-10-2018 at 11:48
by: phlogiston
"Broken" thermometre
How about centrifuging?
I'd try putting it in a (plastic) test tube attached to a rope and swing it ...
26-10-2018 at 04:43
by: phlogiston
Making silane from calcium silicide
Interesting, but are you sure the reaction produces silane at all?

IIRC acid hydrolysis of calciu ...
26-10-2018 at 02:39
by: phlogiston
An extremely ambitious pipe dream (Reality simulation)
Consider this analogy:
if you want to simulate a waterfall, you can do so at many different levels. ...
23-10-2018 at 01:11
by: phlogiston
FBI Call: Need to Vent
On the contrary, in this day and age, the authoritites are not doing their job if they do not invest ...
23-10-2018 at 00:44
by: phlogiston
Doable synthesis of F2 in amateur setting?
unless you have access to a very intense source of ionizing radiation.

[url=https://www.tandfonli ...
19-10-2018 at 06:31
by: phlogiston
Uranium ore samples international shipping
The naturally occuring uranium isotopes (235 and 238) are alpha emitters, but -ore- will contain all ...
19-10-2018 at 04:21
by: phlogiston
A process to produce silvery thallium ampoules
Dan, thanks for sharing, that's a very original method to produce pure/attractive samples.
Do you r ...
16-10-2018 at 15:03
by: phlogiston
Tired of reporting spam
Melgar, THANK YOU! It is such a joy to find nearly only non-spam in 'today's post' and browse for in ...
16-10-2018 at 14:40
by: phlogiston
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