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Glove protection
I'm in the no glove school. Handling wet glassware while wearing gloves is asking for trouble. I use ...
6-7-2015 at 10:44
by: nezza
getting sodium metal from aqueous electrolysis?
It can be done via a roundabout route. Because of the high overpotential at a mercury cathode electr ...
4-6-2015 at 00:10
by: nezza
Best and worst smelling chemicals?
Can't go along with that. Acetaldehyde smells harsh, a bit like formalin, but not as bad. Most ester ...
19-5-2015 at 00:19
by: nezza
Pretty Pictures (2)
Small (0.5cm) crystals of Neodymium sulphate.

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30-4-2015 at 05:58
by: nezza
Colored Alkali/Alkaline Earth Metal Salts?
I thought that some of the trihalides of the higher atomic number elements such as CsCl3 are coloure ...
27-4-2015 at 06:21
by: nezza
Chlorobutanol Catalyst for Potassium Production
As a rule of thumb heating organics containing chlorine with alkali metals is a BAD thing. They tend ...
8-4-2015 at 10:44
by: nezza
Purifying Sodium Chloride
One classic method is to make a saturated solution of salt and then pass HCl into it. This precipita ...
3-4-2015 at 00:07
by: nezza
Interesting Double-Displacement Reactions?
A pretty one is the reaction of Ferrous salts with silver nitrate. It is an equilibrium reaction as ...
31-3-2015 at 13:11
by: nezza
Taste of different acids?
OK. Here's a list of the ones I've tasted. (All as very dilute solutions)

Citric and Tartaric - P ...
15-3-2015 at 01:23
by: nezza
Poll: Which solvent smells the best?
"Pyridine,smells 'best'". I can't believe that. I know smell is subjective but it is one of the most ...
13-3-2015 at 13:01
by: nezza
color and iridescence
Colour is produced by pigments which absorb light of certain wavelengths when illuminated by white l ...
13-3-2015 at 12:58
by: nezza
How old are you
Where's 50-60 ?. That's a giveaway.
19-2-2015 at 00:57
by: nezza
Samarium is sending me insane!
Brain&Force - The colours are accurate as I remember. It burns white hot with a pinkish tint. FY ...
18-2-2015 at 00:55
by: nezza
Samarium is sending me insane!
Hi. I used a blowlamp to ignite the samarium. I have reposted the video of samarium in HCl along wit ...
17-2-2015 at 14:06
by: nezza
Samarium is sending me insane!
I have previously posted a video of samarium dissolving in dilute hydrochloric acid (transient deep ...
15-2-2015 at 01:24
by: nezza
Lasers
The 445nm Laser diodes (Usually from Digital projectors) can be used to generate a watt or so of Las ...
14-2-2015 at 01:15
by: nezza
Is there a way to dissolve silver without HNO3?
Concentrated sulphuric acid with heat will dissolve silver. For dilute acids an oxidising agent is r ...
7-2-2015 at 00:56
by: nezza
Most dangerous or hard to handle chemical
The most frightening things I have are NaK and white phosphorus. Although the NaK is ampouled under ...
2-2-2015 at 11:46
by: nezza
Bromine salt testing reagent
If you can convert the bromine salt to free bromine any way I'm sure there is a specific test for br ...
2-2-2015 at 11:38
by: nezza
Make barium hydroxide from spent sparklers
To get a decent green from Barium you need a chlorine donor in the mix. Barium nitrate alone does no ...
20-1-2015 at 01:12
by: nezza
Which piece of owned glassware is your favorite.
My retorts. Old fashioned glass retorts - you can distill all sorts of nasties in them - HNO3, Bromi ...
16-1-2015 at 02:21
by: nezza
Product prediction
What you have is a simple saturated dicarboxylic acid COOH-CH2-CH2-COOH. 1 mole of this will react w ...
16-1-2015 at 02:18
by: nezza
Copper Compound Collection
Copper (en) perchlorate is fun. Woelen & myself have synthesised this from copper sulphate, ammo ...
15-1-2015 at 01:32
by: nezza
Thallium (I) Nitrate oxidation to Thallium (III) Nitrate?
My route would be :-

1. Make solution strongly alkaline. (Thallous hydroxide and carbonate are so ...
4-1-2015 at 02:37
by: nezza
first acid burn?
Other nasties that burn are 30% hydrogen peroxide and phenol. Particularly with phenol the burn is n ...
4-1-2015 at 02:33
by: nezza
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