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Beware "Deionised" water
I could always pinch the "milli-Q" water from uni, but that stuff is not cheap and I reckon they wou ...
26-10-2007 at 08:57
by: Antwain
Simple and inexpensible DIY mini-charcoal "furnace"
@ ciscodad- do you really think that plaster of paris could go that hot? i thought it dehydrated abo ...
26-10-2007 at 05:44
by: Antwain
Secondary and benzylic alcohols oxydations using various oxydants
It doesent exist. I read it somewhere in the last 2 weeks... the ferric ion oxidises iodide to iodin ...
25-10-2007 at 07:43
by: Antwain
Beware "Deionised" water
You should send ugly words to the manufacturer. As far as I know, chloride is a battery killer too : ...
25-10-2007 at 05:46
by: Antwain
SnCl4:5H2O to SnCl4
Just a thought here...

I was reading cotton and wilinson just now, and I saw something interestin ...
25-10-2007 at 03:32
by: Antwain
Simple and inexpensible DIY mini-charcoal "furnace"
What about using the cans as a mold, and casting a "L" shape out of concrete? Then dissolve the cans ...
25-10-2007 at 02:58
by: Antwain
Cheap acetone
@UnintentionalChaos- I heven't *seen* cheap isopropanol here, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't ...
24-10-2007 at 07:34
by: Antwain
Synthesis of Allylbenzene
copper oraganometalics have their uses, basically a less potent form of grignard, to put it simply. ...
24-10-2007 at 02:17
by: Antwain
mystery reaction...?
A much cheaper way of doing that would be to buy alum from a garden shop and hit it with just about ...
23-10-2007 at 05:23
by: Antwain
Cheap acetone
@Aqua_Fortis_100% - I actually nearly considered doing something quite similar. I was thinking about ...
22-10-2007 at 17:15
by: Antwain
Yellow Percipitate from Sodium Chloride Electrolysis
Yep, its not iodine.

Also, you may have made some bleach in there (maybe) which may explain the s ...
21-10-2007 at 22:08
by: Antwain
mystery reaction...?
As 12AX7 says, impurities. Or as I call it, "crap". You always get that from Aluminium foil of any b ...
21-10-2007 at 22:01
by: Antwain
Oxidising THF using calcium hypochlorite
You can tell when the solvent is dry when you have "snowy" particles of sulfate floating around in i ...
21-10-2007 at 21:52
by: Antwain
Cheap acetone
Over here ethanol is easy, as I described in another thread, it is ~$2/L and is denatured but not wi ...
21-10-2007 at 21:38
by: Antwain
phenethyl bromide from bromobenzene?
I cant imagine that getting the anhydrous HBr is going to be especially easy if you can't buy it in ...
20-10-2007 at 23:27
by: Antwain
Cheap acetone
Does anyone know any sources of cheap acetone for washing?

Obviously it doesnt need to be reagent ...
20-10-2007 at 23:21
by: Antwain
Interesting rare earth metals (lanthanoids) and thier salts
Right, I missed that joke completely. :(
20-10-2007 at 22:22
by: Antwain
Bromine Source and Synthesis
not in alkaline solution.

I should elaborate... When there was bromine dissolved in the solution ...
20-10-2007 at 16:41
by: Antwain
Interesting rare earth metals (lanthanoids) and thier salts
@jdurg- don't suppose you mean positively charged ions ;)

I haven't met anyone who cared a toss a ...
20-10-2007 at 16:40
by: Antwain
Dust Control?
So you want to add the oil TO your product? That is, mix up your product with oil and stick it in ja ...
16-10-2007 at 07:52
by: Antwain
Bromine Source and Synthesis
@Nicodem- Oh my god. How could I possibly have not known about that. For 5 years I have been miscalc ...
15-10-2007 at 12:26
by: Antwain
Lithium batteries
You really think so? If he made more than a few milligrams of H2S then his neighbors would have call ...
15-10-2007 at 10:14
by: Antwain
Bromine Source and Synthesis
I couldn't stay away from the lab. I dissolved 94.5g of Na2SO3 in ~400mL of water and cooled in ice ...
15-10-2007 at 00:38
by: Antwain
Piracetam from 2-Pyrrolidone
Damn straight! Real men snort them and then rub them in their eyes. :o
14-10-2007 at 23:38
by: Antwain
Scrounging for mercury
I should count myself lucky, I guess. I have several kilos of Hg that I inherited (ie 1.5*200mL bott ...
14-10-2007 at 23:21
by: Antwain
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