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Improvised Hempel column packing
Stainless packing is rather limited. Where I work, we have some columns with coarse stainless wool p ...
16-9-2016 at 06:18
by: Praxichys
Improvised Hempel column packing
I use these in my column:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ceramic-Raschig-Rings-for-Moonshine-Reflux-Col ...
15-9-2016 at 08:39
by: Praxichys
Glycine diazotisation in HCl - blue nitroso product?
I bet the mysterious blue compound is the nitrous ester of glycolic acid.

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14-9-2016 at 10:55
by: Praxichys
Collecting a volatile product
Your yield will be higher if you scale the process up. Bromine vapor at STP has a mass of 7.14g/L, a ...
14-9-2016 at 05:18
by: Praxichys
Making Nitrates
It sort of makes sense that "artificial" fermentation to produce nitrates was never industrially pop ...
13-9-2016 at 11:57
by: Praxichys
Nitrate by Fermentation
A neat idea I was toying with for Aga's last challenge is to [i]artificially[/i] mimic the dung and ...
13-9-2016 at 07:23
by: Praxichys
Molecular sieves - care and feeding
For the shorter alcohols, anything with more than 15% water should be distilled first.

K2CO3 work ...
13-9-2016 at 06:18
by: Praxichys
Acetic acid from acetone
It is next to impossible on the lab scale. Any method would certainly require high pressure and prec ...
13-9-2016 at 05:01
by: Praxichys
decomposing sugar
Acid hydrolysis, invertase maybe? It depends what you mean by decomposing.
12-9-2016 at 05:45
by: Praxichys
Why not EDDN?
https://www.atf.gov/explosives/docs/publication-federal-explosives-laws-and-regulations-atf-p-54007/ ...
11-9-2016 at 08:04
by: Praxichys
Why not EDDN?
Silver isn't that expensive to use as a primary. You can get bouillon on eBay, $9 for 5g, which is $ ...
8-9-2016 at 10:43
by: Praxichys
Why not EDDN?
Ethylenediamine is nasty stuff, and next to impossible to manufacture yourself. If you can find it, ...
6-9-2016 at 05:47
by: Praxichys
Why are there two ways to express Acetate?
There is actually a third way of expressing an acetyl group, as "Ac" (OAc or AcO when referring to a ...
1-9-2016 at 10:31
by: Praxichys
problem with thermocouple thermometer
In my experience, any type K rated much beyond 300°C has no plastic components at all. Typically th ...
31-8-2016 at 07:40
by: Praxichys
NEWS: Bomb scare after illegal chemicals found at home of 'pyro enthusiast'
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/bomb-scare-after-illegal-chemicals-8564001

It's from earlier ...
30-8-2016 at 06:54
by: Praxichys
A slight problem...
If you have survived this far, you're going to be just fine.

Hypochlorite instantly destroys cya ...
30-8-2016 at 05:43
by: Praxichys
Best way to reduce noise/silence a vacuum pump?
You could run the pump in a different room and just have a long vacuum line.

Rotary vane pumps ar ...
29-8-2016 at 07:36
by: Praxichys
Diluting oleum
If you want oleum of a lower concentration, dilute it with ice cold sulfuric acid with a lot of stir ...
24-8-2016 at 06:27
by: Praxichys
Cold Pack Ammonium Nitrate Comparison
When you heat it, waft a little to your nose. Urea decomposes to solid residues of biuret, cyanates, ...
24-8-2016 at 05:27
by: Praxichys
Mechanics brain teaser
The spring should be irrelevant. In the relaxed state, the spring will have elongated equivalent to ...
23-8-2016 at 09:50
by: Praxichys
Urushiol
I had a similar experience to Velzee. Here in Michigan it grows extensively, even in my backyard. I ...
20-8-2016 at 16:34
by: Praxichys
Can air be pumped/blown similarly like how venturi aspirators cause vacuum?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trompe
12-8-2016 at 15:59
by: Praxichys
Difficult hydrolysis of an hindered ester
You might try an appropriate phase transfer catalyst. I can't imagine this substance having apprecia ...
9-8-2016 at 05:22
by: Praxichys
Red Oxygen
200 years from now, amateur experimenters will have long forgotten acetone peroxide and will instead ...
8-8-2016 at 11:57
by: Praxichys
100 % sulphuric acid
Oleum is pretty corrosive and probably expensive to ship. I have found P2O5 online though, and it wo ...
8-8-2016 at 06:06
by: Praxichys
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