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edgecase
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horde of gear uncovered in Toronto
So, I just bought a ten foot high pile of lab equipment from the widow of an oil sands chemist. What have I got myself into? 5 pounds of Cobalt
Chloride, a waist-high Soxhlet, pounds of Silver Nitrate... a liter of dimethyl sulfoxide. I have definitely put the M in Science Madness today.
Thoughts on what to do with it all?
[Edited on 2012-5-26 by edgecase]
 
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Funkerman23
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Pardon my french but: PICS! Please?
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edgecase
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Thermometers - left all mercury, right, Hg with tapered joints
Gas washers, impinger, fritted, tapered end, straight end.
sweet mercy sized crystallizing dishes
magnetic stirred globe?
24/40 west condenser, big glass funnel, 1L Erlenmeyer, 1L graduated cylinder
 
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sargent1015
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My goodness, what a find!!
Congrats 
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edgecase
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but wait, there's more! Teaser image + link to gallery. I've uploaded photos of the more intersting half of the first of 3 carloads. And to think
kids play video games for fun!
http://coplanar.net/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=348&g2_p...
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Lovely reagents, especially the iodate.
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Am I the only one that cringes at the thought that my lab equipment, which I've carefully dedicated a significant part of my life, time and money,
would be ripped apart on auctions "like a dead carcass in the desert sun"?
It just makes me nervous to think that I could die tomorrow, and all my work would be dissolved away. Not that I'd probably care, I'd be dead. Chances
are there's nothing after death. It fucking sucks, I know.
For those reasons I don't like buying old, used things. There's a story behind them. Sometimes it's someone who has to give up his work because he has
no money to support himself/family, sometimes someone dies, like this... oil sands chemist.
I catch myself thinking: "Wow, I'm like a scavenger".
Not that I think it's rational... or anything woo woo about it, it's just my feeling in the domain of morality.
But then again, at least someone will enjoy the fruits of his work. It depends how you look at things, I guess.
[Edited on 26-5-2012 by Endimion17]
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For myself knowing how hard it is to equip yourself as an amateur chemist, I would love that somebody can enjoy my equipment as much as I do when I'm
gone. The thought of it all just sitting in boxes forever seems like an awful waste really...
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how much did you pay for all that?
all above information is intellectual property of Pyro.  |
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edgecase
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Is gloating proper etiquette for SM? If so, then I paid $600 for the lot, I'm going back tomorrow to pickup the rest in a pickup truck. Pwned?
Newly uncovered: 80cm vacuum jacketed 24/40 Vigreux column
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Wow nice find! So much cool stuff!
Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble
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You really got quite the deal there for 600$. Are you by any chance planning on selling any of it?
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edgecase
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Yes there is way more than I have space for, there are many duplicates, etc. I am going to try and haul the rest home tomorrow and start cataloguing
it.
There are like 6 cases of coors evaporating dishes, not sure why but enough for each SM member to get one as a door prize!
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Did you calculate the value of the silver salts alone? Years ago when silver was $6 U.S. per troy ounce, it wasn't too bad, but now... your $600
investment is well spent.
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I can't tell how much AgNO3 is in that bottle, but if it's even half-full, that's a good chunk of the $600, considering that one seller has 100g of
AgNO3 for a little over $200. From the look of the prices of the salts, I'd guess that just buying the reagents by themselves would be around $600, if
not higher.
You must've been born under a good star.
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edgecase
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AgNO3 in the bottle? There are 10 more bottles, i estimate 1.5kg, some of it is AgSO4, prolly 800g as Ag metal.... so that's covered the lot, and gas
money. I will definitely let some of the savings "trickle down", first on SM then eBay. If anyone is making videos on youtube and has something
they've been wanting to do, but can't for lack of gear... well you're on the top of my list 
Speaking of videos... I could make my first video of making nitric acid, yawn... but how outrageous would it be to use AgNO3! Assuming it's easier to
electroplate from AgSO4, I might as well.
 
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Quote: Originally posted by Endimion17  | Am I the only one that cringes at the thought that my lab equipment, which I've carefully dedicated a significant part of my life, time and money,
would be ripped apart on auctions "like a dead carcass in the desert sun"?
It just makes me nervous to think that I could die tomorrow, and all my work would be dissolved away. Not that I'd probably care, I'd be dead. Chances
are there's nothing after death. It fucking sucks, I know.
For those reasons I don't like buying old, used things. There's a story behind them. Sometimes it's someone who has to give up his work because he has
no money to support himself/family, sometimes someone dies, like this... oil sands chemist.
I catch myself thinking: "Wow, I'm like a scavenger".
Not that I think it's rational... or anything woo woo about it, it's just my feeling in the domain of morality.
But then again, at least someone will enjoy the fruits of his work. It depends how you look at things, I guess.
[Edited on 26-5-2012 by Endimion17] |
i understand where you are coming from with it but look at it this way...
would you rather let all this equipment rot in a container for years and finaly over taken by vegetation? untill a greedy real estate company finds it
and call the EPA to have it removed and destroyed?
happens all the time ,it makes me sick !
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I think we might have a new Dr. Bob over here with the stacks of lab equipment.
edit: typo
[Edited on 2012-5-28 by Fossil]
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How much oil sand contamination is left in all that glassware. It definitely has a brown tinge to it, at least some of it does.
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edgecase
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| Quote: Originally posted by hyfalcon | | How much oil sand contamination is left in all that glassware. It definitely has a brown tinge to it, at least some of it does.
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The small Sohxlet and other items in the garbage can were filthy, the roof in the trailer likely leaked carrying in whatever dirt was on the roof.
That cleaned up except for a white streak on the outside, hope it's not etched glass from leaking hydroxide. The lady had all the chemicals in a
burlap sack. Good thing the Na2SO3 and KH2PO4 didn't mix?
The sohxlet, and the 2 solvent stillheads have some sort of white resin, hot methanol will not get it out. I guess toluene or a base bath is next.
The Bucchi condenser was just brown from hard water, a little HCl sorted that out real quick. I'll tell you what though, bakelite or whatever the
nuts are made out of don't like HCl, got a bit of a stain on one, whoops.
Some of the glass stopcock grease is a bit brown also.
Here is one large vacuum desiccator cleaned up, dried out, re-greased. Suggestions for safety shield?
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| Quote: Originally posted by edgecase | ...
Speaking of videos... I could make my first video of making nitric acid, yawn... but how outrageous would it be to use AgNO3!
Assuming it's easier to electroplate from AgSO4, I might as well. |
Fuck yeah, go for it! Include some calculations of the amount of money in the reaction vessel. You might reach YouTube fame.
| Quote: Originally posted by neptunium | i understand where you are coming from with it but look at it this way...
would you rather let all this equipment rot in a container for years and finaly over taken by vegetation? untill a greedy real estate company finds it
and call the EPA to have it removed and destroyed?
happens all the time ,it makes me sick ! |
Yeah, I agree with you. This is a far better solution.
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sargent1015
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I love the lab picture! Makes me so jealous my lab space doesn't look like that 
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oooo!!!,,,,big juicy bottles of reagents there!!!!!!
The KI and KIO3 + acidification, produces a nice elemental Iodine from solution, although youve got a bottle of that there.......
Nice jar of CoCl2 as well........!!!!!
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The jar of KI makes me burn with envy... Just kidding. I really wish it were cheaper to buy though.
I was a little disappointed when my teacher poured a lot of nearly saturated KI on an exhausted elephant toothpaste reaction just to see what would
happen. If I hadn't put the rest in a bottle, she would have thrown it away.
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Makes me drool with envy. Price some of the excess and start recovering your investment. Maybe, huh, huh, please, pretty ple.......
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