CRUSTY
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REMINDER: It's cold outside!
Hi everyone. I was doing a distillation outside earlier tonight (I don't have any sort of fume extractor), but my pump wasn't working right, so I
stopped halfway through to take a break. In a moment of incredible, unbelievable, shitheaded stupidity, I got distracted and forgot to drain
my cooling system. I live in northern New Hampshire, and it was 15 degrees Fahrenheit tonight, so when I was away, the water in the cooling system
froze, expanded, and shattered my >$50 condenser to bits. That's a lot of money gone, just like that, especially for a college student like me who
rarely has the money to spend anything on hobbies. I guess that's the end of a lot of chemistry experimentation for a while. I'll edit and post some
photos in the morning when I feel more up to it.
Don't be stupid like me. Remember that water freezes.
[Edited on 10-12-2018 by CRUSTY]
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clearly_not_atara
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ywL_zokELE
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tr0otuiQuU
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OldNubbins
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Couldn't resist
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DraconicAcid
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One of the research groups in my (well, the one I got my degree in) department, way back when, had trouble making a particularly thermally-unstable
complex because they couldn't get the apparatus uniformly cold. So one of the grad students simply moved his vacuum manifold outside into the
university courtyard and did the reaction at night in the dead of an Edmonton winter.
Thus, the "polar night synthesis" was born.
Vancea, L.; Graham, W.A.G. (1977). "Stereochemically Nonrigid Six-Coordinate Metal Carbonyl Complexes". J. Organomet. Chem. 134 (2): 219.
doi:10.1016/S0022-328X(00)81421-7.
Please remember: "Filtrate" is not a verb.
Write up your lab reports the way your instructor wants them, not the way your ex-instructor wants them.
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mayko
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If it makes you feel any better, you aren't the first...
https://www.sciencemadness.org/whisper/viewthread.php?tid=24...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVIRcnlRKF8
Play it with some nice subwoofer, it gives me chills
Too bad about your condenser!
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Thus, the "polar night synthesis" was born.
Vancea, L.; Graham, W.A.G. (1977). "Stereochemically Nonrigid Six-Coordinate Metal Carbonyl Complexes". J. Organomet. Chem. 134 (2): 219.
doi:10.1016/S0022-328X(00)81421-7. |
Haha, nice, my science friends in real life also had a laugh.
[Edited on 10-12-2018 by Tsjerk]
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BromicAcid
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My most miserable experience was trying to condense chlorine when it was -36°C outside.
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Tsjerk
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But did it work?
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Metacelsus
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I've condensed SO2 in a Minnesota winter, but I don't think I'd want to try chlorine.
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Funkerman23
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I'll bet the Dry
ice& acetone bath lasted a lot longer, though..
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VSEPR_VOID
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I have tried to ampule Cl2 once, its very tricky.
I used acetone and CO2(solid) for the coolant.
Within cells interlinked
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