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How to separate ethanol from essential oils dissolved inside (not so easy)
Oh, I see.

In the perfume industry, an extract via ethanol is called a "tincture", not an essenti ...
3-1-2017 at 04:06
by: PirateDocBrown
How to separate ethanol from essential oils dissolved inside (not so easy)
Why is there ethanol in your essential oil to begin with?
2-1-2017 at 17:40
by: PirateDocBrown
Phenyllithium attemt
You dropped the Li directly into the PhCl?

Next time, try a solvent. Dry Et2O or THF, for example ...
2-1-2017 at 10:31
by: PirateDocBrown
Asian supermarket alum.
Alum sold for human consumption is indeed supposed to be potassium-aluminum. Ammonium-aluminum, whil ...
1-1-2017 at 15:03
by: PirateDocBrown
My library
What's not shown is Medicinal Chemistry, which is folded into the Medical part of my library.
1-1-2017 at 02:49
by: PirateDocBrown
My library
And the last four:

The first has the rest of General Chemistry on the right, Inorganic Chemistry ...
1-1-2017 at 02:43
by: PirateDocBrown
My library
Here's the next three:

The first is (laying down) texts on Instrumental Analysis, and (standing u ...
1-1-2017 at 02:29
by: PirateDocBrown
My library
But here's some more show-off, from my library.

The first shelf, and half the second, are all Phy ...
1-1-2017 at 02:17
by: PirateDocBrown
My library
So, this is Young's "Elements of General Chemistry" (1960).

I spotted this when I was a boy, on s ...
1-1-2017 at 02:10
by: PirateDocBrown
Asian supermarket alum.
So, I'm walking through the local Asian supermarket, and see some plastic bags labeled "alum" on the ...
31-12-2016 at 15:01
by: PirateDocBrown
Wondering if i could pay someone for a fumehood?
Fume hoods are used all the time for spray painting. Nothing (potentially) nefarious about that. The ...
31-12-2016 at 09:21
by: PirateDocBrown
High School Chem Lab Manual from 1960's
Hey, I have that book! And the classroom text, with the teacher's manual.

If I had a scanner, I'd ...
31-12-2016 at 08:38
by: PirateDocBrown
My library
So, here's the shelf of books I keep in the living room (Not the library), just for easy reading.

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31-12-2016 at 07:25
by: PirateDocBrown
My library
Holtzclaw was my freshlyman Chem text! I still have mine, tho an earlier edition.
30-12-2016 at 14:17
by: PirateDocBrown
My library
I just got down my Thorpe, "Dictionary of Applied Chemistry", (1905). 3 vols, well over 2500 pages. ...
30-12-2016 at 09:44
by: PirateDocBrown
Chinese Hotplate/Stirrers
I got one under the tree this Christmas. Haven't tried it out yet.
30-12-2016 at 09:39
by: PirateDocBrown
Preparation of phosphorus halides from phosphorus pentoxide
You can reduce calcium phosphate in a crucible with carbon to calcium phosphide, which you can then ...
29-12-2016 at 18:41
by: PirateDocBrown
Get Your U.S. DBDMH While You Can!
Good advice! I was picking up sodium bromide today and saw it, both on clearance sale due to winter. ...
28-12-2016 at 03:29
by: PirateDocBrown
Where can i find good storage bottles?
For ordinary dry chemicals, that aren't corrosive, oxidizers, or volatile, it's hard to go wrong wit ...
26-12-2016 at 08:37
by: PirateDocBrown
My library
Well, when I was in grad school, one of the members of my committee passed away, and the department ...
25-12-2016 at 17:55
by: PirateDocBrown
Latest chemical order?
Hydroquinone is an excellent free-radical scavenger!
20-12-2016 at 11:42
by: PirateDocBrown
Latest chemical order?
Bath bombs!
17-12-2016 at 01:03
by: PirateDocBrown
Latest chemical order?
Hmm, let's see,

From my local pottery supply:

BaCO3, 1 lb
CaCO3, 1 lb
CaF2, 1 lb
CaHPO4, 5 ...
16-12-2016 at 16:56
by: PirateDocBrown
anhydrous ethanol, etoh, anhydrous alchohol, calcium oxide, quicklime, methanol?
I was astonished about the low availability of tech grade CaO, as well.

In both academic and cor ...
13-12-2016 at 09:11
by: PirateDocBrown
Propositioned by U2U
My response:

"You do realize it is not psychoactive, save for its possible use as an anti depress ...
11-12-2016 at 04:15
by: PirateDocBrown
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