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The Volatile Chemist
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Arkoma, Ghetto new balance...
But the Bunnomatic is super-cool, too bad it doesn't get hotter (than meeee...)
I swear, I'll be kicked off the forum someday...
I *just* cleaned up my lab, I'll have to take some pictures now...
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arkoma
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I got my lil' mass set in the mail other day GhettoBalance3.0 works GREAT. Getting ready to knock plumbing through wall from bathroom.
*edit* If I didna have a 16year old daughter, be able to use less "obtanium" (scrounged stuff)
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[Edited on 11-23-2015 by arkoma]
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The Volatile Chemist
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Heh, Im sixteen. She can handle Vogel and Braums  Have you taught her chemistry
technique yet?
In regards to lab, my lab table is now a piece of family history. Not too smart, but a great table, and mine to keep. The tabletop is a wooden door
attached to two handmade short cabinets with drawers. Moveable though, as it dissassembles with ease. Made by my diceased grandfather.
Sorry aboutthe terrible spelling, I'm on a first gen iPod, and it's ten at night...
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... my lab table is now a piece of family history....The tabletop is a wooden door attached to two handmade short cabinets with drawers... Made by my
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That's a great story! I have a couple of old tools from my late father-in-law. I treasure them like I'm sure you treasure that lab table.
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The Volatile Chemist
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| Quote: Originally posted by CharlieA | | Quote: Originally posted by The Volatile Chemist |
... my lab table is now a piece of family history....The tabletop is a wooden door attached to two handmade short cabinets with drawers... Made by my
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That's a great story! I have a couple of old tools from my late father-in-law. I treasure them like I'm sure you treasure that lab table.
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Yep. Though I have a piece of glossed wood-board on top of the surface of some of it, and a black plastic-covered piece of cardboard (once the back of
a desk calender) covering another part of the surface, so the actual table doesn't get damaged by spills. Funny, both of the chemistry tables I've
used have had white surfaces...makes 'em look messy.
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This thread is awesome. So many ideas for my soon to be lab. I only wish I had half of the equipment I have seen in this thread.
"Experience is my one true mistress and I will cite her in all cases. Only through experimentation can we all truly know anything." ~Leonardo da Vinci
My inventory
Recently acquired elements: Iodine , Cobalt, Tungsten, Silicon |
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Tadadadadam... Today... The ultra-rare photos of ave369's winter lab! Not the normal lab but the bare bones relocated to the great hall because
elsewhere it's too damn cold!
 
[Edited on 30-11-2015 by ave369]
[Edited on 30-11-2015 by ave369]
Smells like ammonia....
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You inspire me, ave. I thought my lab was cramped and untidy. I don't feel so bad now. 
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Pay attention to the heating device on the photos. It's the brand new Soviet heating mantle: the Rekord brand pressurized kerosene stove, made back in
1950! And the process of agressive dehydration of the Bat is well underway.
And concerning the chaos in the lab... they don't call me the Mildly Psychoneurotic Scientist for nothing!
Hooray! I've got 85% sulfuric acid! Everything is ready for a Zintl-Karyakin!
Upd: Zintl-Karyakin stopped prematurely because of the uncontrollable bumping. I was afraid that the gunfire-like bumping will break my flask and
sprinkle CrO3 all over the place. No boiling chips known to me could stop the bumping.
At least I now have some chromic acid to de-gunk my glassware somewhat. And it was much more de-gunking than doing chemistry. I even used the dreaded
nitrochromic acid.
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[Edited on 30-11-2015 by ave369]
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And final hint for everyone: never do the Zintl-Karyakin with ammonium bichromate! The little bitch will decompose in the process of distillation, and
all you will get is green sulfuric acid contaminated with chromium trioxide and chromium sulfate!
At least it will work for Glauber's syntheses...
Smells like ammonia....
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The Volatile Chemist
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Yum... Nice pics, though a bit too cluttered for me. Good disty-rig, how big is it, actually, it's hard to tell...
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It's coming along. Ain't spending precious cash on ring stands though. My friend made the condenser holder for me out of cypress wood. Inch and a
half forstner bit made holes that hold it SNUG. Brought water through the wall from the bathroom. A sink is on the "to do" list.
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Looks nice! How do you hold the two neck flask?
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Looks nice! How do you hold the two neck flask?
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the lovely wood condenser holder keeps it all lined up
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| Quote: Originally posted by arkoma |
It's coming along. Ain't spending precious cash on ring stands though. My friend made the condenser holder for me out of cypress wood. Inch and a
half forstner bit made holes that hold it SNUG. Brought water through the wall from the bathroom. A sink is on the "to do" list.
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I am confused by your blatantly incorrect poster on the wall. Distillation from acidifed dichromate is a standard method of producing aldehydes from
alcohols. It would oxidize aldehydes to carboxylic acids with further exposure.
That's a nice martini glass full of vinegar.
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Nice setup arkoma. But yes, that poster would annoy me too.
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I am going to take a trip to my secret base hidden deep in the salt mines to see if my old lab is still intact. If it is, I should have some photos of
some pretty holy equipment to show in a few days. (Or maybe a bunch of broken glass.)
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I know poster is incorrect--it's "tongue-in-cheek". Alcohol is the "solution" to looking at it.
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Water got into my electronics... I think I'm going to cry...
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I've posted pictures of my lab a few times before, but never in this thread, so I figured it was about time I did.
First up, my lab bench, with a tiny chloroform distillation in progress.
 
Next, the two reagent storage cabinets (organic on the left, inorganic on the right). I also store various odds and ends such as crucibles, stoppers,
filter papers, and test papers on the top shelf of the inorganic side.
 
In one of the cabinets under the bench, I have my centrifuge and a really old variac. My hotplate lives on top of that milk crate when not in use. The
other picture shows my glassware drying rack with surplus reagents stored on the shelves underneath.
 
All of my glassware is stored on shelves in my bathroom and bedroom due to lack of space in the garage. Most of it can be seen in these two pictures,
but there's a bit more stored away in drawers. A few pop-chem books share a shelf with some in the second picture.
Here's my collection of chemistry textbooks and references, as well as a bunch of miscellaneous clutter and my compound collection. That's just about
everything.
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Looks nice, zts. I have the same McMurry fourth edition ochem textbook
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Nice lab zts! I envy those labels and all the cork rings.
I'm renovating my lab at the moment, I think I'll share some photos when it's done.
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Thanks guys!
Haha, I found that one at Half Price Books for $4.00
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The Volatile Chemist
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Zts16, nice! How old are you, I always forget; looks very professional. Something to aspire to. Of course you live in a rich-person house, so
everything looks pristine (kidding...)
| Quote: Originally posted by JJay | | I am going to take a trip to my secret base hidden deep in the salt mines to see if my old lab is still intact. If it is, I should have some photos of
some pretty holy equipment to show in a few days. (Or maybe a bunch of broken glass.) |
Wait, what... you kidding? If not, that's probably the best thing I've heard all day. That's more to aspire to than a pristine lab, even if the
electronics are wet
Might as well post pics of the less messy, lab 2.0 for Nathan P. (me...):
That last one's a failed synth of citrazinic acid. Just wanted to throw that crap in here....
    
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