PLEASE keep in the front of your mind that nitration happens with a DELAY for this reaction. I had three runaways because it tricked me before I
realized, make sure your temperature is rock solid for at least.... 5? Minutes before doing your next small addition. My runaways were realized by a
huge spike in temperature (I think 5c to >60c in less than the sample rate of my thermometer=1 second), the mix turning shit brown and more NO2
than I thought my janky fume extractor could handle (it did, no edema lol-I'm a terrible chemist).
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