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Preparation of elemental phosphorus
@peach: Nice to see that you're using Ubuntu as well....

@Rogermeryaw: How go you heat the stuff ...
4-10-2010 at 09:24
by: metalresearcher
Steel retort design for making Na metal for review
Maybe molten candle wax (virtually pure paraffin) is an option as it does not react with Na.
3-10-2010 at 09:43
by: metalresearcher
Steel retort design for making Na metal for review
Thanks for all tips ! Ialready bent a steel pipe with sand and with success.
But I am looking aroun ...
3-10-2010 at 02:39
by: metalresearcher
UK Chemical Regulations
[rquote=188947&tid=14533&author=Emil]Mossydie.

eBay are all to happy to hand over transac ...
2-10-2010 at 13:30
by: metalresearcher
Steel retort design for making Na metal for review
@watson.fawkes :
Your sand-filling trick seems to work ! I bought 2 kg of bird cage sand at a pet s ...
2-10-2010 at 06:35
by: metalresearcher
Making a hot propane furnace using cheap refractory
As some members of this forum use high temperatures I have made a page about how to make a propane f ...
2-10-2010 at 05:45
by: metalresearcher
Steel retort design for making Na metal for review
The problem when bending the tubes is that they flatten or get very kinky at the bend location. A pl ...
2-10-2010 at 02:36
by: metalresearcher
Steel retort design for making Na metal for review
[rquote=188869&tid=14491&author=peach]Looks like you have sodium there.

Nightinhawk, a gu ...
1-10-2010 at 22:37
by: metalresearcher
Steel retort design for making Na metal for review
Next attempt: I tried the U-tube , thanks to @Panache.
I bent a 15mm pipe and filled it with the rx ...
1-10-2010 at 12:13
by: metalresearcher
Steel retort design for making Na metal for review
@bbartlog
But nickel also absorbs carbon... and nickel plating steel is not a simple job .....
T ...
29-9-2010 at 22:53
by: metalresearcher
Steel retort design for making Na metal for review
Good idea that U-tube, as I have destroyed two squeezed-end-tubes tonight with the same leaking issu ...
29-9-2010 at 11:31
by: metalresearcher
Steel retort design for making Na metal for review
Thanks for your comments. I tested it and it worked fine. Now I tried potassium now with K2CO3 + C b ...
28-9-2010 at 12:29
by: metalresearcher
Steel retort design for making Na metal for review
Just found a solution for the oil capture :I use a 32mm (1 1/4") test tube filled with motor oil in ...
28-9-2010 at 10:39
by: metalresearcher
Pure Sodium Metal
[rquote=188528&tid=14290&author=Vanilla47]Hi !
A Free PDF for Download !
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28-9-2010 at 09:48
by: metalresearcher
Dissolving Mainboards in HCl :: Dangerous ?
Simple calculation : 1 gram of gold costs about $45.
You'll have to extract [i]hundreds[/i] of PCB' ...
28-9-2010 at 02:20
by: metalresearcher
Steel retort design for making Na metal for review
Good ideas !
Now I made two other small scale retort pipes one of them (the middle in the picture b ...
27-9-2010 at 12:13
by: metalresearcher
Tutorial for making a miniature chlorate cell
Ten years ago I made some KClO3 with success from diet salt (2 parts KCl + 1part Nal), it is rather ...
27-9-2010 at 07:30
by: metalresearcher
Steel retort design for making Na metal for review
@peach :
I do have such a steel brush as pictured in your post for my angle grinder, but I didn't u ...
26-9-2010 at 23:01
by: metalresearcher
Smaller scale attempt no leaking anymore
Now I performed a smaller scale test by just using a 15mm steel tube (1/2" inner diameter) of 30cm l ...
26-9-2010 at 10:59
by: metalresearcher
It is very difficult to make the retort airtight
I got some 2" black steel tubes from a scrap yard, so I tried the design as sketched in my previous ...
25-9-2010 at 08:49
by: metalresearcher
Periosic table : wht doews it list nonexistent elements ?
But Tc (and 61Pm) do also exist in very small amounts in some stars and here on Earth it exists as d ...
24-9-2010 at 07:39
by: metalresearcher
Periosic table : wht doews it list nonexistent elements ?
The latest 20 years a lot of new elements are synthesized ranging from 100 (Fm) to 118 (Uuo) but the ...
24-9-2010 at 04:14
by: metalresearcher
Steel retort design for making Na metal for review
Read many posts from you all, thanks for that, but is there anyone who really used the retort setup ...
23-9-2010 at 10:43
by: metalresearcher
Steel retort design for making Na metal for review
I am thinking about something similar, but with no screws and nuts as at > 1200oC lots of Fe3O4 s ...
23-9-2010 at 02:39
by: metalresearcher
EQUILIB Web site wrong ??
I am just interested in making Na metal from Na2CO3 + Al metal.
22-9-2010 at 07:34
by: metalresearcher
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