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Lab clearance for sale on eBay (UK)
Wow! Quite the haul, and at a very good price. I see it has sold. I wonder if it was someone on here ...
24-4-2023 at 12:58
by: Texium
Preparation of Ketones by Calcium salt Pyrolysis
Excellent write-up, as usual, Boffis!

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19-4-2023 at 14:37
by: Texium
LabDIRECT's New Temporary Address
Thanks for the update! There was a pesky rumor going around that you had gone out of business. Glad ...
17-4-2023 at 08:56
by: Texium
Anethole extraction issues
Ether was removed on a rotovap.
11-4-2023 at 12:54
by: Texium
Using ChatGPT to answer chemistry questions
Ugh, not this again. ChatGPT is becoming the new bane of my existence. Now when people get scolded f ...
11-4-2023 at 11:38
by: Texium
The Short Questions Thread (4)
There could be a larger portion of mixed hexane isomers that would explain the 70° fraction. SDS ar ...
11-4-2023 at 11:29
by: Texium
Anethole extraction issues
[rquote=683181&tid=159475&author=DocX]
So I'm finally f***ed, right?
I should abandon shi ...
11-4-2023 at 11:20
by: Texium
Everyday Chemistry
[rquote=683099&tid=84298&author=Texium]Soxhlet extraction is fun to watch, but it extracts l ...
11-4-2023 at 08:46
by: Texium
Anethole extraction issues
[rquote=683168&tid=159475&author=DocX]Interesting. I can't help but wonder why? And possibly ...
11-4-2023 at 08:40
by: Texium
Anethole extraction issues
Steam distillation works better than Soxhlet extraction for anethole. It will inevitably be contamin ...
10-4-2023 at 13:10
by: Texium
Quick and partial report on benzyl bromide synthesis
Benzyl bromide is BnBr. BzBr is benz[b]o[/b]yl bromide, so it is an important distinction.
10-4-2023 at 09:50
by: Texium
Solubility of copper sulphate compared to its pentahydrate
Everything you’ve quoted is stuff we all already know and fully agreed about, so I’m having a li ...
9-4-2023 at 20:37
by: Texium
The Short Questions Thread (4)
You just replied to a post from 10 years ago by a member who hasn’t been active in 10 years.
8-4-2023 at 19:16
by: Texium
The Short Questions Thread (4)
Assuming it doesn’t contain other volatile components that are problematic, that sounds good. Depe ...
8-4-2023 at 13:34
by: Texium
Everyday Chemistry
Soxhlet extraction is fun to watch, but it extracts lots of non-volatile compounds that you probably ...
8-4-2023 at 08:18
by: Texium
Sourcing Non-denatured Anhydrous Ethanol in the US?
[rquote=683034&tid=159466&author=FrozenSpool]I need the ethanol to make sodium ethoxide, and ...
7-4-2023 at 06:02
by: Texium
Can somebody explain why this happens? Capacitor discharge through a piece of foil shatters a ceramic tile
@Beezwax: in the title of this thread you ask for an explanation of this phenomenon. However, it see ...
7-4-2023 at 05:56
by: Texium
Notes on p-Toluenesulphonic acid → p-Cresol
Nice. Minor critique though: you should write TsONa or NaOTs, not TsNa, cause Ts means tosyl, not to ...
6-4-2023 at 09:44
by: Texium
Stir bar get stuck in RBF
Perhaps just a weak magnet then. Try a football shaped stir bar if you haven’t yet. It should spin ...
5-4-2023 at 14:11
by: Texium
Warfarin syntheses
Sheesh, not sure how I managed to miss those papers. I had done a structure search and normally that ...
5-4-2023 at 12:44
by: Texium
Sodium thiosulfate for hydrochloric acid production
[rquote=682977&tid=159458&author=teodor]H2S2O3 → H2S + SO3[/rquote]Would that not react fu ...
5-4-2023 at 10:17
by: Texium
Fun Reactions
You don’t need 33% ammonia to do the silver mirror, you just need ammonium nitrate (from an instan ...
4-4-2023 at 19:19
by: Texium
Warfarin syntheses
Unfortunately I think you're actually taking a step in the wrong direction. I can't think of any con ...
3-4-2023 at 12:12
by: Texium
Easy-to-synthesize odor compounds
[rquote=682909&tid=158258&author=Raid]I'm not sure if it has been said yet, but you could ma ...
3-4-2023 at 11:06
by: Texium
Warfarin syntheses
Thanks. It looks like what atara proposed is a clever intramolecular Claisen condensation of ethyl s ...
2-4-2023 at 15:04
by: Texium
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