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Interesting allotropes, glassifications, and polymorphs.
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Bromic Acid wrote:
It's not really a pentagon, the pentanitrogen cation is V-shaped, atte ...
18-2-2005 at 09:54
by: atombum
Interesting allotropes, glassifications, and polymorphs.
Not fitting well on this area of the periodic table is nitrogen. I believe there is still only the ...
15-2-2005 at 13:04
by: atombum
Diethyltoluamide
DEET is probably no more effective than DIMP. It was probably replaced by the safety police. Phtha ...
9-11-2004 at 14:17
by: atombum
Seeking information about Vanillyl octyl thiourea
I also saw this compound mentioned by Mr. Schwartz in sci.chem. To find out more about it, maybe re ...
7-11-2004 at 22:49
by: atombum
Cynmar
I had not checked Cynmar in a while as their selection was (at the time) a bit small, but after read ...
3-11-2004 at 08:55
by: atombum
Best acid combination to erode steel.
Aqua Regia perhaps? ....and then there's also the chlorine fluorides, not acid in their anhydr ...
27-10-2004 at 22:05
by: atombum
Sandy's on ebay
As I'm sure many here know one of the major chem suppliers on ebay, Sandys4Kids has had a rash ...
27-10-2004 at 22:00
by: atombum
1-chloro-2-propanone (chloroacetone)
Remember also: The addition of CaCO3 (the chalk mentioned), is not only for quality purposes in the ...
23-10-2004 at 19:49
by: atombum
Organic carbon?
[quote][i]Originally posted by Polverone[/i]

"Hydriodic acid is a good reducing agent, but ...
23-10-2004 at 19:42
by: atombum
THF ( tetrahydrofuran)
In response to MadHatter- Like an increasing number of compounds, it's probably on the high-pri ...
15-8-2004 at 20:14
by: atombum
THF ( tetrahydrofuran)
As tetrahydrofuran seems to be rapidly turning into a hard-to-find solvent, I became curious of who ...
15-8-2004 at 14:40
by: atombum
NO2(g) sources
Easiest route to NO2- nitric acid and copper. Even easier still, there's nothing simpler than ...
4-8-2004 at 20:36
by: atombum
SUPERBASE! (Well, what is it?)
In reply to Nick F:

Alkali metal alkoxides are actually strong bases in and of themselves. And I ...
4-8-2004 at 20:24
by: atombum
Best and worst smelling chemicals?
To me methanol has about as much of a smell as water does, I was dumbfounded the first time I tried ...
24-6-2004 at 07:40
by: atombum
Best and worst smelling chemicals?
No one's favorite is ether? When not too concentrated that sweet odor is hard to stop smelling ...
21-6-2004 at 17:51
by: atombum
State by state chem laws
[b]Cyrus Wrote:

Never made any/used any/owned/seen any, so I'm safe from door busting feds t ...
21-6-2004 at 16:05
by: atombum
State by state chem laws
NERV wrote:

Personally I think that the government is way to paranoid about drugs, and bombs.

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20-6-2004 at 12:49
by: atombum
State by state chem laws
Pretty much everyone knows of Texas' ridiculous glassware laws (only criminals practice non-cor ...
19-6-2004 at 18:00
by: atombum
Mercaptin
Original Post-
...also, the seleno-mercaptans are supposed to be worse smelling than the basic alky ...
15-6-2004 at 19:39
by: atombum
"controlled substances & "listed" subtances
Correct me if I'm wrong anyone, but I've read on many occasions that List I chemicals now ...
12-6-2004 at 16:28
by: atombum

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