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How do I remove the smell of Benzyl Chloride from skin
Sodium tetraborate decahydrate (Boraxo) makes an excellent non-toxic cleaner for dirty/greasy hands ...
26-2-2018 at 16:58
by: Magpie
Catechol preparation
The point is to make reagents not buy them, at least the first time. This way you learn some chemis ...
26-2-2018 at 16:39
by: Magpie
Preparation of “Absolute” Ethanol (<100 ppm water)
I use hardware store denatured alcohol for the cleaning soln.

Edit: This may or may not be cheap ...
25-2-2018 at 18:35
by: Magpie
Preparation of “Absolute” Ethanol (<100 ppm water)
[rquote=508628&tid=80742&author=happyfooddance]In lieu of a muffle furnace, a steel can will ...
25-2-2018 at 16:51
by: Magpie
Preparation of “Absolute” Ethanol (<100 ppm water)
Thank you, AvB.

I first learned about how water can kill yield when alkylating ethyl malonate per ...
25-2-2018 at 16:48
by: Magpie
What is the point of amateur chemistry?
I like tea and crumpets, but also lattés and strumpets. :D

Get some lab time and you will start ...
24-2-2018 at 19:25
by: Magpie
Preparation of “Absolute” Ethanol (<100 ppm water)
Here's the recipe for making the ethanol-water-NaOH glassware cleaner:

https://www.inrf.uci.edu/w ...
24-2-2018 at 15:14
by: Magpie
Preparation of “Absolute” Ethanol (<100 ppm water)
[rquote=508510&tid=80742&author=aga]
Testing things is a waste of time - just follow someth ...
24-2-2018 at 15:00
by: Magpie
Preparation of “Absolute” Ethanol (<100 ppm water)
No, I do not and never will, have Karl Fisher capability. I say my ethanol has <100ppm water bec ...
24-2-2018 at 14:46
by: Magpie
Preparation of “Absolute” Ethanol (<100 ppm water)
[rquote=508491&tid=80742&author=aga]Is there some method to determine the Absolute absence o ...
24-2-2018 at 14:06
by: Magpie
Preparation of “Absolute” Ethanol (<100 ppm water)
[rquote=508490&tid=80742&author=Sulaiman]In C,a,1 where did the aqueous ethanol come from an ...
24-2-2018 at 14:04
by: Magpie
Preparation of “Absolute” Ethanol (<100 ppm water)
[rquote=508489&tid=80742&author=happyfooddance]
Why do you believe that a stirrer is critic ...
24-2-2018 at 13:52
by: Magpie
Preparation of “Absolute” Ethanol (<100 ppm water)
What you buy at the garden center is slaked lime, Ca(OH)2. By heating it in the muffle furnace at 8 ...
24-2-2018 at 13:10
by: Magpie
Preparation of “Absolute” Ethanol (<100 ppm water)
Absolute ethanol (<100 ppm water) is often a requirement for a successful synthesis in organic ch ...
24-2-2018 at 12:56
by: Magpie
200 proof alcohol (starting with 165 proof) with CuSO4 and MgSO4! SUCCESS! NO REFLUXING!!
[rquote=508424&tid=80729&author=RogueRose]
Once done with dehydrating, the color of the liq ...
24-2-2018 at 09:41
by: Magpie
Distilling vinegar - removing water before AA passes over?
Sedit, this is very nice, thanks for sharing. I don't make my acetic acid anymore, but buy it.
23-2-2018 at 18:50
by: Magpie
LiH Production Apparatus Design and Operation
[rquote=508381&tid=80616&author=Bert]Somehow I missed whatever controversy happened. Before ...
23-2-2018 at 18:41
by: Magpie
What is the point of amateur chemistry?
I've been thinking about chemistry since I was 13. But I was busy going to school, a university (fo ...
23-2-2018 at 14:47
by: Magpie
Carbon Disulfide from sulfur and charcoal
[rquote=127280&tid=10564&author=garage chemist]Yes, Len and I did collaborate in person. He ...
22-2-2018 at 10:57
by: Magpie
LiH Production Apparatus Design and Operation
Yes, len1 really messed up there and got egg on his face. He owes Pok an apology. Nonetheless, his ...
22-2-2018 at 10:48
by: Magpie
Isocyanic Acid Danger?
I can easily buy 30% aqueous NH3. To make dry ammonia I have boiled this, leading the wet gas throu ...
21-2-2018 at 16:25
by: Magpie
Acid Chlorides
[rquote=508069&tid=80658&author=Chemi Pharma]
... using OTC Cyanuric chloride, carboxilic a ...
21-2-2018 at 06:04
by: Magpie
Acid Chlorides
RCOOH + SOCl2 → RCOCl + SO2 + HCl

SOCl2, thionyl chloride, can be made at home, with much labor ...
20-2-2018 at 18:39
by: Magpie
LiH Production Apparatus Design and Operation
Leonid Lerner's book is available through the CRC publishing company. It has many valuable synthese ...
19-2-2018 at 09:57
by: Magpie
Catechol preparation
I have on hand 50mL of guaiacol with which I plan to make catechol according to the OrgSyn procedure ...
19-2-2018 at 08:40
by: Magpie
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