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Need help - questions about thiodiglycol
Does anyone know how long thiodiglycol will last in a sealed container? What happens when this period comes to an end? Are their breakdown products?
If so, what are they?
Any help or direction in finding answers to these questions is much appreciated. Thanks.
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JohnWW
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You could probably tell from the smell of the stuff! See the thread about "Best/worst smelling chemicals".
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This is your first post here; why are you inquiring about a chemical weapons precursor. I am not saying that chemical weapons are your intent, but its
kind of suspicious. Thiodiglycol is used in inks though.
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You would know if you had any reasonable education in organic chemistry, that on it's own, stored sealed, dry and in the dark, there is not much that
thiodiglycol can do with itself.
If oxygen can get in, then so can water, and in that case there might be some oxidation. If it is stored in a metal container then again, there might
be some reaction. But on pure, its own, it should be stable indefinitely.
[Edited on 15-6-09 by The_Davster]
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Quote: Originally posted by Paddywhacker  | You would know if you had any reasonable education in organic chemistry, that on it's own, stored sealed, dry and in the dark, there is not much that
thiodiglycol can do with itself.
If oxygen can get in, then so can water, and in that case there might be some oxidation. If it is stored in a metal container then again, there might
be some reaction. But on pure, its own, it should be stable indefinitely. |
Sounds right. Possible oxidation products would be bis-(2-ethoxyethyl)sullfoxide and bis-(2-ethoxyethyl)sulfone.
[Edited on 15-6-09 by The_Davster]
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Asking this question does not break forum rules. It is not unreasonable to ask why, to prevent one from doing something careless, but the personal
attacks must be left out.
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Thiodiglycol is used in the printing industry and the textile industry as a solvent for inks.
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It has been demonized for its use by the criminal regime of the late unlamented nass murderer Saddam. The Iraquis (and the Iranians) used it to
produce the vesicant "sulfur mustard" by thr archaic 18tyh century so called "German method", q.v.
This is despite the fact that there are much cheaper and much more efficient routes to the same agent from petroleum material (ethylene) readily at
hand to both regimes.
The stupidity of such regimes is matched by that of the international control regimes which arose after the fact.
I don't know why the thread author is asking these questions about thiodiglycol BUT if it is to be deemed suspicious then how about all the questions
from wannabe dope cooks?
The thread poster did NOT ask about where to obtain thiodiglycol, or how to make it - and if he had asked he would have been directed no further than
Org.Syn. and its references which cover this rather thoroughly.
Sic gorgeamus a los subjectatus nunc.
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