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[*] posted on 5-12-2022 at 16:05


Another attempt at getting nice crystals of Ni(bipy)3SO4. The dark blue(?) crystals are presumable nickel with 2 bipy and either water or sulphate as the other ligands.

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[*] posted on 9-1-2023 at 15:52


First go at Picric Acid.

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[*] posted on 10-1-2023 at 10:52


Quote: Originally posted by arkoma  
First go at Picric Acid.





Beautiful canary yellow colour indeed, love it. :)

Has a nasty habit of staining everything though haha.

Had a wet batch out drying on minimal paper towels when I was a teenager in my closet and it soaked through. The carpet is still a pretty yellow all these years later.




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[*] posted on 29-1-2023 at 05:20


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Tin beads, created during an attempt to melt some tin.




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[*] posted on 30-1-2023 at 02:01


Quote: Originally posted by greenlight  


Beautiful canary yellow colour indeed, love it. :)

Has a nasty habit of staining everything though haha.


somehow i managed to not get yellow stains on my skin, but my god, glass with no discernible residue on it shed yellow like mad when being (re)washed.




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[*] posted on 13-2-2023 at 06:27


here are some photos from under the microscope

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[*] posted on 13-2-2023 at 08:40


Quote: Originally posted by arkoma  

somehow i managed to not get yellow stains on my skin, but my god, glass with no discernible residue on it shed yellow like mad when being (re)washed.


You dont necessarily see the stains on your skin with normal light.
Try a black light for some fun :)




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[*] posted on 13-2-2023 at 13:47


Quote: Originally posted by Raid  
here are some photos from under the microscope


Nice photos!
How did you prepare your slides?
Did you use a stereo microcope?
What magnification(s) did you us?

Sorry for all the questions, but I have been thinking about similar observations for some time.

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[*] posted on 16-2-2023 at 07:38


I just kinda plopped the crystals on my microscope slide and held my camera up to the observation area and took a picture.
I used between 40x zoom and 100x

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[*] posted on 16-2-2023 at 09:55


It's not difficult to clobber up a "stand-off" from your objective lens with a bit of paper tube and tape. You can get sharp photos easier if all you have to do is lay your camera on top of a tube cut to focal length.

Try it on a telescope with self timer (no shake from button push):



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that was taken with a cheap kodak with NO zoom, but i had it taped to this: ;)



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[*] posted on 16-2-2023 at 15:25


Nice telescope :)
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[*] posted on 23-2-2023 at 21:55


Homemade crystals of manganese(II) sulfate, purified from cheap pottery MnCO3 that gave a foul reddish-black solution on acidification. Very rewarding to make!

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[*] posted on 23-3-2023 at 22:38


I happened to have some dry ice, so I made some dinitrogen trioxide to show my students.

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[*] posted on 31-3-2023 at 08:30


Picric Acid Recrystallization

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The only yellow chemistry I'll do.:)




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[*] posted on 12-4-2023 at 14:22


Sunrize over the mountain, pre daguerreotype era



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[*] posted on 14-4-2023 at 20:49


Neodymium sulphate octahydrate. I was rather surprised to see these- they grew from the filtrate after collecting and washing the same substance with near-boiling water.

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[*] posted on 24-4-2023 at 09:38
Unknown mineral


Found this deep purple colored layer (2mm thick) in south eastern united states.
Adjacent layers are sandstone quartz mixture this lots of pyrite


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[*] posted on 5-5-2023 at 06:28


There be gold in them industrial controllers
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[*] posted on 5-6-2023 at 06:53


Nice green Crystals.
This is CuCl2•XH2O
the dihydrate :)

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[*] posted on 30-6-2023 at 06:03


I turned 47 today. I was more busy last year helping people from Ukraine, but still had some time to synthesize some new compounds which itself made a separate topic in my celebration which I want to share with my SM friends :)

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[*] posted on 30-6-2023 at 12:29


Happy birthday, Teodor!
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[*] posted on 30-6-2023 at 14:00


Quote: Originally posted by xxxhibition  
Nice green Crystals.
This is CuCl2•XH2O
the dihydrate :)

Based on the color, it looks like there is still a significant amount of HCl hanging on. Tetrachlorocuprate gives it that lime green color. CuCl2 • 2 H2O is more of an aqua blue-green color when pure. Recrystallizing a couple times from water should correct that.

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[*] posted on 30-6-2023 at 14:33


Happy birthday Teodor! You're just about a year n half my senior, chronologically. I hope you have/had a great time. Looks a fair bit cooler there than it is here this glorious day. Supposed to hit 102°F today and 108°F tomorrow. Glad you got some sciencing time, always a treat to get to paly
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[*] posted on 1-7-2023 at 02:46


Thank you, Bedlasky and Violet Sin. On the background of my picture is a frame of my home observatory by the way. I am also "staring at stars from the back yard" when the weather permits. Yes, 102F is pretty common for Ukrainian summer for last 20 years or so (the global warming), and now I live in a different clime.

I promise to upload some new pretty chemical pictures soon :)
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