Few weeks ago I finished the cleaning/repurposing of a separate room for chemical storage purposes. At first I wanted something elaborate as "logic
behind the placements" of the various bottles but soon abandoned the idea.
I thought that the easier and faster finding of something I was looking for was more important for me than fiddling with obscure groups and sub-groups
of reagents. So I went with this ordering power: inorganics (in alphabetical order from top of the shelves to the bottom) to the left, organics to the
right. Organics that can be considered "solvents" in a reaction go to the bottom (ground level) under the inorganics, bulk methanol in a "big" drum to
the bottom, under the organics' side.
Liquid acids into a separate container, on plastic trays. (Regardless whether they are inorganic or organic.) The container is an old, broken
lying-type refrigerator (200 l or so), of which insides were covered with a few mm thick layer of slacked lime and dried for a few days before I put
those acids there. (Unfortunately some of these acid bottles are emitting fumes and I have to rethink this storage method.) |
