During picking up some sulfamic at my local home depot, I browed the cleaning and pool chemical aisles.
There is a brand I have never seen before called 'ro-tyme'
Chemicals that are sold by this company include:
-conc. Sulfuric acid. Black, and much much cheaper than the other sulfuric drain openers up here. Only 4$ a litre
-Conc HCl
-NaOH based drain openers, sold by the pound or in 3kg tubs Solid NaOH
-CuSO4 drain openers. Soild.
And more, but when you already have an armload of other chems, browsing more did not seem like a good idea.
Good news as many common chems are slowly dissapearing! Stocking tyme
[Edited on 16-8-2006 by rogue chemist]Elawr - 15-8-2006 at 21:38
Wow!! Where is this Home Depot of which you speak? Was the Conc. H2SO4 in plumbing or pool supply? I was at Home Depot doing the exact same thing
about 2 weeks ago and didn't notice anything new. I guess it's time I head back over there and check it out!! BTW, what's sulfamic acid useful for?The_Davster - 15-8-2006 at 21:45
The majority of the chems are in the plumbing section, including the H2SO4. What I listed above was all within a metre of each other on one shelf.
The home depot is in Canada, don't know if in the US the same thing will happen.
I am using the sulfamic mainly for ammonium sulfamate, but perhaps a bit of potassium sulfamate. For some interesting preparations of unusual
cyclics.
Couldent find any cyanuric acid. That annoyed me.DeAdFX - 15-8-2006 at 22:15
The only thing I have found in the US is some enzyme shit and 30 variants of sodium/potassium hydroxide. Hey guys lets sell the same exact product as
the others but dilute it and charge more than the competitor..
However I do hope that the US depot carries this stuff. My local true value no longer carries rooto sulfuric acidnot_important - 15-8-2006 at 23:12
In the US you will find a lot of variation from State, county, and city regulations. Also what is stocked is affected by the area around the store,
urban vs rural. I've a friend who told me that KMnO4 vaished from the Sears around him, but if he crossed a mountain range all the Sears had 5 and 10
pound containers of it. He also found a hardware store that had a soldering flux that was hydrazine hydrochloride something I'd not heard of.
Go to the country, you'll find more there.The_Davster - 19-8-2006 at 12:46
Gah, I figured I would pick up a pound of the NaOH drainopener, unfortunatly however it has those little chunks of Al for making hydrogen. Luckily
the aluminum is of a larger mesh than the NaOH prills, so a simple screen of the corect mesh should remove the Al.UniversalSolvent - 27-9-2006 at 14:14
Time to go to Home Depot.olmpiad - 5-11-2006 at 17:12
Quote:
Originally posted by The_Davster
-CuSO4 drain openers. Soild.
[Edited on 16-8-2006 by rogue chemist]
Actually, it's CuSO4 * 5H2O, and it costs about $10 for 2lbs.Darkblade48 - 5-11-2006 at 19:36
Quote:
Originally posted by olmpiad
Actually, it's CuSO4 * 5H2O, and it costs about $10 for 2lbs.
I'm sure The_Davster knew that, probably just force of habit to not type it out
Though on another note, I could never find copper sulfate (not anhydrous, if olmpiad is going to be nitpicking), at my local Home Depot...The_Davster - 5-11-2006 at 21:39
Yes yes, I am just lazy
I suppose it could be mistaken, but common sense dictates that anhydrous reagents are not usually OTC. One would not normally include waters of
hydration when speaking about a chemical in real life, many of us just take such shortcuts here.(unless of course the hydration waters are relavent to
how it will be used).
For finding it, you could try asking for septic tank line cleaner or something. It is used to remove roots from such contraptions.
Or just open the lids of the draincleaners to see what they look like, then read the ingredientsnot_important - 6-11-2006 at 00:11
Copper sulfate usually appears as "root killer", most products tagged with "septic" are other things.olmpiad - 6-11-2006 at 17:50
My box was purchased as a root killer. It claims that it is 99% pure!dapper - 8-11-2006 at 20:41
I have seen 2lb/900something g containers of NaOH at lowes for 7.00.. and 12 oz containers for 2.00 at a local grocery store.
if home depot has bulk NaOH.. I'm so thrilled. I hope its cheap.
that makes up for one of their recent transgressionsb_d_Dom - 9-11-2006 at 18:28
What about CaCl2? I plan to need a whole lot of it in a few weeks so does anyone know what products it comes in fairly pure?The_Davster - 9-11-2006 at 18:37
Rona/home depot usually have it as air dehumidifier. 'Dry-z-air' is one brand. Big sacks.
Solid NaOH
