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Safe disposal of old potassium
An interesting potential problem with a fire is the possible presence of potassium superoxide/ perox ...
9-8-2022 at 11:00
by: unionised
Could we dry ethanol with Zinc?
Is it just me or is " bring the temperature up in a pressure cooker," a bit worrying?
2-8-2022 at 05:17
by: unionised
How to use a PT100 resistor in corrosive environment
The price sucks, but you could copy this sort of thing.
https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/GB/en/product/ ...
1-8-2022 at 07:44
by: unionised
What is my best bet at diggesting a mix of all elements that can form acetates at once, as I would do with nitric acid?
Lots of things destroy peroxide catalytically.

Mixtures of acetic acid with oxidants are potentia ...
25-7-2022 at 12:53
by: unionised
Moonshine
How are you measuring the purity of your product?
24-7-2022 at 05:10
by: unionised
Conversion of Manganese Sulphate to Acetate
It might be possible in glacial acetic acid, if the Mn salt isn't soluble in that .
But I would sti ...
22-7-2022 at 00:04
by: unionised
Drying an impossibly deliquescent iminium salt (how stable are iminium salts?)
[rquote=674996&tid=158709&author=Fulmen]I see your point. I'm not sure if it fits the defini ...
16-7-2022 at 04:26
by: unionised
Drying an impossibly deliquescent iminium salt (how stable are iminium salts?)
[rquote=675145&tid=158709&author=Lionel Spanner][rquote=674984&tid=158709&author=uni ...
16-7-2022 at 04:25
by: unionised
Benzene to benzaldehyde conversion
I'd have thought the easy way to get CO was from CO2 and C; pass the gas over hot charcoal.

It's ...
15-7-2022 at 01:02
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Drying an impossibly deliquescent iminium salt (how stable are iminium salts?)
How could they fail?
Consider (well stirred ) water and toluene for example.
You heat them up and ...
10-7-2022 at 04:55
by: unionised
Drying an impossibly deliquescent iminium salt (how stable are iminium salts?)
[rquote=674781&tid=158709&author=Fulmen]Truth be told you shouldn't need any azeotrope to ge ...
9-7-2022 at 13:50
by: unionised
What solvent is good for dissolving animal fats?
[rquote=674940&tid=158646&author=arkoma][rquote=674908&tid=158646&author=bluamine]I ...
9-7-2022 at 13:33
by: unionised
What solvent is good for dissolving animal fats?
A little late to the party but... neither lanolin not castor oil are animal fats.
It's not just a t ...
7-7-2022 at 10:38
by: unionised
Acquisition of Hexanal (hexanaldehyde) from OTC/Easily Obtainable Chemicals?
How fussy are you about C6?
Heptanal can be obtained by cracking castor oil.
7-7-2022 at 10:12
by: unionised
Sea salt as catalyst for derusting danger?
It's not exactly dangerous.
You will probably find you get chloride in the rust (whether it's sea s ...
3-7-2022 at 13:18
by: unionised
Drying an impossibly deliquescent iminium salt (how stable are iminium salts?)
Do you have lots of acetonitrile?
If so, you can start by sacrificing something really valuable to ...
1-7-2022 at 04:54
by: unionised
Drying an impossibly deliquescent iminium salt (how stable are iminium salts?)
Could you rig something like this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean%E2%80%93Stark_apparatus
That ...
29-6-2022 at 09:44
by: unionised
Preparing ethanol from a sugar wash treated with Sodium carbonate
The alkaline conditions also promote converting aldehydes into yellow tarry stuff which isn't volati ...
16-6-2022 at 10:19
by: unionised
Purifying TCCA
[rquote=674301&tid=158664&author=clearly_not_atara]... I would not recommend using TCCA in a ...
15-6-2022 at 14:03
by: unionised
Purifying TCCA
[rquote=674263&tid=158664&author=CwisGons]Would you consider isopropyl chloride to be highly ...
14-6-2022 at 23:36
by: unionised
Is it reasonable to modify/crack paraffin candle wax to achieve different viscosity?
Have you tried adding petroleum jelly?
5-6-2022 at 03:27
by: unionised
Dilute conc. HCl to az. HCl for ease of storage?
Unless you are boiling it (at 760mmHg) there's nothing magical about the 20 % or so azeotrope.
The ...
1-6-2022 at 02:00
by: unionised
Antimony Sulfide
I'm fairly sure that Sb2S3 will react with steel.
29-5-2022 at 02:45
by: unionised
Good solvent for liquid liquid extraction of curcuminoids
[rquote=673803&tid=158618&author=alchemizt]The solvent won't evaporate completely due to the ...
29-5-2022 at 01:47
by: unionised
Where do nice colors in nature originate from ?
Nature can make beautiful colours using things that are not coloured; quartz and water.
https://en. ...
27-5-2022 at 04:24
by: unionised
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