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Bad days in the lab or with glassware?
I tried dissolving cobalt in nitric acid for a complexation reaction. It was a bad idea to remove th ...
5-2-2014 at 20:22
by: Brain&Force
The trouble with neodymium...
I evaporated the magnet nitrate to dryness, but I fear I have caused everything to hydrolyze.

I a ...
5-2-2014 at 20:17
by: Brain&Force
Kinetics of the Reaction between Potassium Isopropyl Xanthate and Ethyl Chloroformate
This is some great work Cheddite! I've never written a research paper myself, but what you have is d ...
5-2-2014 at 10:20
by: Brain&Force
Pretty Pictures (2)
alexleyenda, for the plated coin collection, why not use silver? That should work fine. Other ones t ...
5-2-2014 at 10:16
by: Brain&Force
Little things that surprised you in chemistry
I acidified the ferric nitrate and what do I get? A clear, colorless solution. I guess a d[sup]5[/su ...
4-2-2014 at 21:27
by: Brain&Force
The Short Questions Thread (4)
[rquote=317679&tid=25055&author=blargish]Hey guys,
I'm doing a chemistry research project a ...
4-2-2014 at 18:52
by: Brain&Force
Removal of gasses
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yE7v4wkuZU

Making nitric acid with the NO[sub]2[/sub] - peroxide ...
4-2-2014 at 17:49
by: Brain&Force
Removal of gasses
Wouldn't this produce aqua regia, and therefore nitrosyl chloride? That's yet another problematic ga ...
4-2-2014 at 10:19
by: Brain&Force
Pretty Pictures (2)
What was the process for plating Mg? If you did it in water, the metal would not reduce - it would c ...
3-2-2014 at 21:29
by: Brain&Force
Removal of gasses
For differently reacting gases, it's best to bubble them through a solution of some sort. Reducers ( ...
3-2-2014 at 21:19
by: Brain&Force
General Discussion of Terbium Compounds
I finally was able to make some terbium hydroxide. Oh, wait, let me correct myself: terbium carbonat ...
3-2-2014 at 20:21
by: Brain&Force
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Done.

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[edit] How did you make the key box in the gr ...
3-2-2014 at 06:48
by: Brain&Force
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When a topic has a new post after you've posted in it, there's either a Windows XP documents folder ...
2-2-2014 at 19:05
by: Brain&Force
Questions reguarding Magnesium and Calcium sulfates
Magnesium sulfate is pretty soluble in water, so conversion to the hydroxide should be no problem. D ...
2-2-2014 at 16:36
by: Brain&Force
Announcements of Articles in Progress
[b]Luminescence in terbium(III) salts:[/b]
[list][*]Novel quenching phenomenon with iron(III) conta ...
2-2-2014 at 13:38
by: Brain&Force
The trouble with neodymium...
Here's a video showing the same effect in holmium triflate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEK90hf4 ...
2-2-2014 at 12:02
by: Brain&Force
The trouble with neodymium...
It's not black light, it's a fluorescent energy saving bulb. The color change is caused by narrow ab ...
2-2-2014 at 10:45
by: Brain&Force
The trouble with neodymium...
Nd only fluoresces in the IR range. The effect is caused by absorption bands not lining up with the ...
1-2-2014 at 20:13
by: Brain&Force
New supernova in M82 - closest in 21 years!
I'm looking at the supernova right now. It has definitely gotten brighter, but nowhere near the myth ...
1-2-2014 at 20:10
by: Brain&Force
The trouble with neodymium...
I just ran out of HCl, but I still have plenty of nitric. The magnets only dissolve with difficulty, ...
1-2-2014 at 08:28
by: Brain&Force
The trouble with neodymium...
I think I didn't use enough magnets (this was just a test with two tiny magnet fragments, about .5 g ...
31-1-2014 at 20:07
by: Brain&Force
Pretty Pictures (2)
Beautiful flame of copper chloride/methanol. Interestingly, copper chloride is reduced in the flame ...
31-1-2014 at 20:03
by: Brain&Force
Good experiments suited for winter?
Throw some scalding hot water outside and watch it crystallize, like all of those newscasters do. :) ...
31-1-2014 at 18:57
by: Brain&Force
The trouble with neodymium...
I made some magnet nitrate today, dissolving a few small magnets in 6M nitric acid. They were unusua ...
31-1-2014 at 18:47
by: Brain&Force
Little things that surprised you in chemistry
[rquote=317311&tid=28474&author=DraconicAcid][rquote=317307&tid=28474&author=Brain&a ...
30-1-2014 at 21:59
by: Brain&Force
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