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[*] posted on 31-5-2018 at 10:46


Quote: Originally posted by LearnedAmateur  
I mean I’d buy some if I’d use it for multiple things, but I very rarely order reagents which would only have a single use, especially if I’m buying a few hundred grams or a litre at least. I simply don’t have a need for hydrogen peroxide in synthesis, whereas I have plenty of sulphuric acid (on my synthesis scale anyway) for instance because I use it for a lot of things, and have enough to spare for glassware cleaning.


Hydrogen peroxide is extremely useful. It's also probably the cheapest and most ecologically-friendly oxidising agent other than air/oxygen gas.




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[*] posted on 31-5-2018 at 12:30


Heat is probably the best choice for organics. I once worked at a lab analyzing among other things CHC and dioxin emissions using GC-MS. As I'm sure you can imagine these were extremely low concentrations, even after concentrating several liters of sample down to a few ml's of extract. All glassware in the lab was cleaned in a dishwasher with a very strong detergent, rinsed with distilled water and burned overnight at 400°C.
Must have cost a fortune as equipment routinely broke during the process. And we're not just talking beakers here, graduated flasks, pipettes, custom gas sampling equipment, soxhlet extractors, everything was treated this way.




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