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Titration cockups
Yea that is why I put 'poor' in quotes. The idea is it usually still takes 5-20 of those 'fractions ...
21-4-2014 at 18:33
by: smaerd
Oxidation of Alkenes to alcohols (Heptane to Hexanol)
Not to be a nomenclature punk, but I think you mean hept-1-ene rather then heptane. My first glance ...
20-4-2014 at 16:15
by: smaerd
Titration cockups
Digital pH meter is a good idea, but an autotitrator is probably unnecessary for most tasks. Edit bu ...
20-4-2014 at 16:02
by: smaerd
Powdered Alcohol
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0008621503002209

Seems like an awful idea/waste ...
20-4-2014 at 08:00
by: smaerd
blood red ammonium acetate.
Looks like some very charred organic material (phenolphthalein).

Sodium acetate should look more ...
18-4-2014 at 11:51
by: smaerd
blood red ammonium acetate.
Did you extract or remove the phenolphthalein?
18-4-2014 at 11:23
by: smaerd
Fumes
I guess while we're on the topic of fumes. It's always a good idea to scrub solutions that put off g ...
18-4-2014 at 11:16
by: smaerd
blood red ammonium acetate.
Try adding some cold anhydrous alcohol (ethanol, methanol, isopropanol/whatever) to your 'ammonium a ...
18-4-2014 at 11:07
by: smaerd
Beta testers wanted for synthesis review site
I'd love to help out. Just let me know. I know ResearchGate recently started a new type of peer comm ...
18-4-2014 at 03:27
by: smaerd
Thermochromic Tetrachlorocuprate
Okay one thing I had to do to dry the crystals was press them between several pieces of filter paper ...
17-4-2014 at 04:45
by: smaerd
Thermochromic Tetrachlorocuprate
The green crystals are exactly what you want. The yellow looks as though there is too much moisture. ...
15-4-2014 at 10:11
by: smaerd
The π is a lie!
If you want to do anything semi-serious with kinetics expect to use calculus and differential equati ...
13-4-2014 at 18:46
by: smaerd
The π is a lie!
I can think about Tau more easily. Pi trips me up if I am doing too much mental math.

I'm not in ...
13-4-2014 at 16:19
by: smaerd
1+2+3+... = -1/12 ?
I also have seen this and found it a bit befuddling. Supposedly they have used this 'trick' in the d ...
13-4-2014 at 06:09
by: smaerd
Ideal Gas Law discrepancy
On a physical chemistry quiz I actually made the mistake between confusing STP(273k,etc) and SATP(29 ...
9-4-2014 at 04:14
by: smaerd
Synthesis of calcium carbide with electric arc
Very cool as always MetalResearcher.

Out of curiosity how are you moving the electrodes safely?
5-4-2014 at 06:30
by: smaerd
Organic Chemistry Online
Buy a used text-book. Sit down and do a chapter a week. Answer every problem in the book. That's how ...
4-4-2014 at 12:04
by: smaerd
Green oxidation of alcohols to symetrical esters with Oxone/NaCl
Very nice. How was the yield if you don't mind sharing?

Warms my heart to see a repeatable green ...
23-3-2014 at 14:24
by: smaerd
Ozonelabs-Synthesis of Tetrahydrobenzodipyran
NMR looks good, great work as always ozone labs. Don't know about the phenol OH being that far up fi ...
23-3-2014 at 14:13
by: smaerd
Favorite element
Hmmm..

Carbon, bismuth, and silicon. I'm sure this will end up changing eventually but I think ca ...
23-3-2014 at 13:57
by: smaerd
Production and storage of europium(II) compounds
Inert gas such as argon could help for storage (denser then air). Perhaps glass vaccutainers? Probab ...
23-3-2014 at 13:50
by: smaerd
What sort of base is strong enough to deprotonate aldehydes but not ketones?
Sodium carbonate might be, but under what conditions? Another often over-looked readily available se ...
23-3-2014 at 13:40
by: smaerd
Preparation of Mononitrotoluenes (o-, p-)
Fantastic job. What kind of vacuum fractionating column is that?
23-3-2014 at 07:36
by: smaerd
Bad days in the lab or with glassware?
Well this is just dumb and it wasn't a big loss.

I was dissolving some vitamin b tablets in aceti ...
23-3-2014 at 07:24
by: smaerd
Formation of meta-bromoacetanilide ?
Hey JAVA,

Edit nevermind I totally misread your question. The wikipedia article on it has a prett ...
19-3-2014 at 11:58
by: smaerd
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