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Poor locked-down man's distillation apparatus :)
When you're on lockdown away from your chemistry lab… you have to wing it! 
The plastic straw actually runs through the plastic water bottle which acts as a condenser…
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This is brilliant! Obviously only good for low temperatures. How did it go?
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Nice. I've thought about running a ss/copper tube vertically through a coke bottle with hose attachments screwed in.
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Mood when producing moonshine in prison.
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What are you going to distill in this?
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Keras
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The thing holds its own for simple distilled water preparation. It's definitely lacking water circulation though, so the water ends up lukewarm at the
top and stays cool at the bottom. Also, the lower hole is leaky, but I found I could mitigate it by capping the bottle tight (it still drips,
especially when the bottle warms up).
Well I was trying next to get some concentrated ethanol out of wine. That was a resounding failure. All I got was somewhat lightly flavoured water,
but no alcohol. I wonder where it has gone. I'm going to open a thread about this.
I'll try to use it to purify denatured alcohol that is sold as fuel for alcohol burners. Will see.
I did also make a makeshift alcohol burner out of a glass can with a metal lid (and shoe lace as wick), but that turned out to be a bad idea, and I
got my wooden table charred.
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Ooh man... I would be too lazy to try something like that, but anyways nice experiment.
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This time it worked. It took me three runs, but I was definitely able to get a mixture ethanol/water rich enough in ethanol to be ignited by a match.
Starting with 100 ml of 14% wine, I ended up with a few drops less than 10 ml concentrated ethanol, which is not so bad, considering than there was 14
ml in the starting beverage.
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Quote: Originally posted by Keras  |
This time it worked. It took me three runs, but I was definitely able to get a mixture ethanol/water rich enough in ethanol to be ignited by a match.
Starting with 100 ml of 14% wine, I ended up with a few drops less than 10 ml concentrated ethanol, which is not so bad, considering than there was 14
ml in the starting beverage. |
O man, I see business coming. Cheapest wines in Poland are like ~1$ per 0.7 L so it's very good deal  . You can patent your own way of ethanol purification.
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| Quote: Originally posted by mackolol |
O man, I see business coming. Cheapest wines in Poland are like ~1$ per 0.7 L so it's very good deal . You can patent your own way of ethanol purification. |
Yeah, especially with a 250 ml beaker.  I don't even want to know how much time
it would take me to distil a mere single bottle… I have no idea how cheap is a bottle of plonk in France, but certainly not that cheap.
I burnt all the ethanol I'd made. Everything gone in a fleeting blue flame…
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