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Is it possible to catch rabies indirectly from wooden sticks?
The stick part is plausible, but I'm pretty sure that in order to contract rabies you have to break ...
22-4-2023 at 18:18
by: clearly_not_atara
Ethyl Pyruvate from Calcium Pyruvate
[quote]Would I be correct to assume that a strong acid might not be needed for ethyl pyruvate, thus ...
21-4-2023 at 20:09
by: clearly_not_atara
Ethyl Pyruvate from Calcium Pyruvate
Excessively strong acid may cause pyruvic acid to undergo self-aldol condensation.

Oxalic acid m ...
20-4-2023 at 19:29
by: clearly_not_atara
Fenton chemistry oxidation of MSM to methanesulfonate
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00027-003-0673-6
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[color=#123210]A laser f ...
18-4-2023 at 19:57
by: clearly_not_atara
Preparation of Ketones by Calcium salt Pyrolysis
Preparative scale, good yield, awesome pictures. Featured paper for [i]Acta Chemica Libera[/i] if we ...
18-4-2023 at 15:19
by: clearly_not_atara
sugar dehydration to carbon with alternatives....
Pyrolysis would definitely be the method of choice for OP's desire of putting carbon in his garden ( ...
15-4-2023 at 09:26
by: clearly_not_atara
Calcium cyanurate ---> Cyanamide
Cyanide formation in this rxn is very unlikely because it would require carbon to be reduced, but th ...
15-4-2023 at 07:16
by: clearly_not_atara
TheVespiary downed?
It's down again. Will probably be a few days, like always. Should perhaps be called "the phoenix" :P
13-4-2023 at 17:37
by: clearly_not_atara
Simple Reactions with Fluorobenzoic Acid
Benzene is quite carcinogenic; chlorobenzene shows only benign tumors when injected at the highest t ...
13-4-2023 at 07:46
by: clearly_not_atara
The Short Questions Thread (4)
Doesn't cyclopentane easily form a clathrate with water? Eg:

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.102 ...
12-4-2023 at 08:34
by: clearly_not_atara
Watched precursors now being sold on ebay
To Fyndium's point, the law makes little distinction between a home and a commercial laboratory. If ...
12-4-2023 at 08:23
by: clearly_not_atara
Dimethoxyethane (glyme) synthesis
Unfortunately, I mis-remembered. What actually happened was a [url=http://www.sciencemadness.org/tal ...
12-4-2023 at 08:09
by: clearly_not_atara
Deep Eutectic Solvents (OTC Ionic Liquid)
While searching for something else, I discovered that dimethyl urea and tartaric acid form a salt-fr ...
11-4-2023 at 15:55
by: clearly_not_atara
Dimethoxyethane (glyme) synthesis
There was a paper about using base with diethylene glycol and dimethyl carbonate to obtain diglyme. ...
11-4-2023 at 12:54
by: clearly_not_atara
Dimethoxyethane (glyme) synthesis
Will dioxolane work for your rxn? It seems to be a little easier to produce:

https://pubs.acs.org ...
11-4-2023 at 04:11
by: clearly_not_atara
Sodium thiosulfate for hydrochloric acid production
By electronic considerations, the reaction of CuSO4 with Na2S2O3 leading to Cu2S2O3 must be a redox ...
11-4-2023 at 03:59
by: clearly_not_atara
Dimethoxyethane (glyme) synthesis
I think you may be confused: the Williamson synthesis is the SN2 reaction of alkyl halides with alko ...
10-4-2023 at 18:43
by: clearly_not_atara
Sodium thiosulfate for hydrochloric acid production
Actually, that sounds like a great way to make SO3, since it can be condensed and is produced at a " ...
6-4-2023 at 07:13
by: clearly_not_atara
My adventures in diy battery making - batteries are hard.
Regarding ESS, they were taken to task on HN shortly after launch:

https://news.ycombinator.com/i ...
5-4-2023 at 17:40
by: clearly_not_atara
Does Mg react with carbonates?
Rainwater's use of "standard [b]temperature[/b] and pressure" to analyze the behavior of a [b]burnin ...
31-3-2023 at 18:48
by: clearly_not_atara
Calcium cyanurate ---> Cyanamide
Sulfur would have to come from hydrogen sulfide, or hopefully a synthon, e.g. NaSH.

Hydrolysis p ...
30-3-2023 at 10:34
by: clearly_not_atara
Calcium cyanurate ---> Cyanamide
This would also lead to guanidine and possibly thiourea, methinks. The latter might be a little tric ...
29-3-2023 at 10:29
by: clearly_not_atara
Aluminum salts in baking powder - Why?
It's cheap, it's legal, and nobody reads the ingredients. What more justification do they need?

T ...
28-3-2023 at 07:36
by: clearly_not_atara
For those in the UK: kiss goodbye to N2O
Canisters? More like amateurs. Back in the day there were gangs with tanks and balloons outside nigh ...
27-3-2023 at 15:39
by: clearly_not_atara
Mystery oxidizer labeled as KNO3
More importantly, BaO2 reacts readily with sulfuric acid. We are narrowed down to a very short list ...
25-3-2023 at 12:22
by: clearly_not_atara
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