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Lambda-Eyde
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500 g phthalic anhydride and 250 g magnesium turnings from eBay - 21 £. 
This just in: 95,5 % of the world population lives outside the USA
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Hexavalent
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500ml 2-butanone, 500ml 37% Hydrochloric acid
"Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." Winston Churchill
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LanthanumK
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10 grams calcium, 2 grams indium, 1 gram beryllium, 4x4 inch titanium foil.
hibernating...
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Mailinmypocket
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I know! Awesomeness! I just ordered two items which I have no real use for per-se but I see them as chemical collectibles 
5g Denatonium Saccharide (extremely/insanely bitter)
1g Nonivamide (synthetic variant of Capsaicin)
Of course as soon as these are received I will stupidly taste test a small dust particle of each for fun hehe
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barley81
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1lb Mg granules (99.8%, -50+100 mesh)
1lb KMnO<sub>4</sub>
1lb benzoic acid
1lb polyvinyl alcohol
Total order, inc. shipping - $44.58
From my awesome chemistry teacher, hopefully:
Phthalic anhydride
t-butanol
conc. ammonia
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Mailinmypocket
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Quote: Originally posted by barley81  | 1lb Mg granules (99.8%, -50+100 mesh)
1lb KMnO<sub>4</sub>
1lb benzoic acid
1lb polyvinyl alcohol
Total order, inc. shipping - $44.58
From my awesome chemistry teacher, hopefully:
Phthalic anhydride
t-butanol
conc. ammonia |
t-butanol! That would be wicked, Ive been searching for some for the longest time and cant find any through my usual supply companies 
I guess because its spring im doing some spring chemical shopping because I ordered yet again, some are relatively basic things that I cant seem to
find anywhere locally:
Malonic acid, 25g Reagent, : This is mainly for demos for friends lol, I am determined to show them the belousov zhabotinsky reaction!
Conc. NH4OH 500ml Reagent: Because these days household ammonia has became about as potent as watered down cat piss with perhaps some lemon perfume in
it to make it even less useful for home chemistry.... I had to bite the bullet on this one... 28$
Potassium Iodate 100g reagent: One of the uses will be for the belousov reaction, I know I can make iodate rather easily but im lazy plus its a useful reagent
Conc HCl 500ml reagent: I must have 6 litres of hardware store muriatic, that being said I feel a bit silly paying so much for a small amount but I do
need some HCl free of metal contamination for delicate experiments etc.
It annoyed me that I had to purchase reagent grade of this:
CAMPHOR ACS 100g for 15$- I am only 26 yrs old but I remember buying camphor blocks in almost every pharmacy, they were always in some infrequently
used low traffic areas of the pharmacies, but they were there! I asked the pharmacist and she said that the company doesnt offer it anymore due to
easier to use OTC creams and vapo rubs and god knows what else, of course. Then she told me to check the hardware store... I just came back home.
Also got an eyewash station, Corning PC-420D stir/hotplate (to replace my older PMC hotplate), various brushes, clearance kimax glassware, filter
papers, ph papers, 1/4 lb of glass tubing, wash bottles pre-labelled for ethanol, methanol and isopropanol which I love! A second lab stand and some
bossheads, glass funnel, claisen adapter and various adapters and a few other things I cant remember... feels like Christmas in April! minus my visa
statement when it comes... :S
[Edited on 4-4-2012 by Mailinmypocket]
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barley81
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| Quote: Originally posted by barley81 | 1lb Mg granules (99.8%, -50+100 mesh)
1lb KMnO<sub>4</sub>
1lb benzoic acid
1lb polyvinyl alcohol
Total order, inc. shipping - $44.58
From my awesome chemistry teacher, hopefully:
Phthalic anhydride
t-butanol
conc. ammonia |
I ended up getting this from the teacher:
500mL t-BuOH
500g phthalic anhydride
454g hydroquinone
4L conc. NH<sub>3</sub>
2.5L GR sulfuric acid
Two lumps of silicon
I'm soooo excited!!!!! Yippeee!!!
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99chemicals
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I have not had a large order recently but just smaller orders.
1 lb KMnO4
5 lb KNO3
4 oz. Mn metal lumps. They are very pretty crystalline lumps for my element collection.
1 gal 30% H2O2
4 oz KClO3
2 oz KI
2 oz ammonium dichromate
some gibberellelic acid sol.
Barium carbonate
1 oz CaO
1 oz LiCl
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Pyro
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1kg silicon powder (min order)
1kg sodium
500g Red phosphorus
50cm vigreux column
500g potassium dichromate
100g mercury
2x 100ml sep funnel
2x 250ml sep funnel
1Kg poassium permanganate
500g potassium iodide
500g resorcinol
25g Phenolophtalein
2kg sodium bromide
that's it for now,
i have bought a lot of many things, this is because of MOQ's i will sell what i really cant use.
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thanos thanatos
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Most recent purchases (not in any particular order):
3g Ir metal
2g Ru metal
500g Mg, fine shavings
1 lb Na
250g Ga
1 Troy oz Rh sponge
500g Norit decolorizing carbon - neutral
500g P2O5
1L benzene, puriss
250g AlCl3 (anhydrous)
113.4g CuSO4 (anhydrous)
250g Na2WO4
500g LiAlH4
500g LiNH2
200 Li
1kg NH4F
100g Bio Beads SM-2
100g trimethysulfonium iodide
100g benzyltriethylammonium bromide
1kg KOH
250g BHT
500g NaIO4
500g TBHQ
2 lbs NH4Cl
2 liters tert-butanol
2kg NaSO4 (anhydrous)
500g Hg
5g PdCl2
2 liters Et2O
500ml CCl4
1 liter CHCl3
1 gal CH2Cl2
1 liter n-hexane
100g HONH2 HCl
1kg KMnO4
250g benzoyl peroxide, 98%
500 CH3CONH2
500g Fe, reduced powdered
250g Hg(NO3)2
2kg NaNO2
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Hexavalent
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Jeee-sus! How much did all of this come to?
"Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." Winston Churchill
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Mailinmypocket
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Thats AWESOME!
I just got 3 lbs NaOH(boring) and 25g thallium which was kind of neat to find
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thanos thanatos
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I'm not sure, nor am I sure I wan't to know  . These were acquired mostly as
numerous small orders, although most of the metals were from 2 orders and most of organic compounds (minus the solvents) were in one order, which
totalled about $650, although that included shipping (which is always significant for reagents, esp. with hazmat items in different categories having
to ship separately).
The total is dominated by the Troy oz. of rhodium sponge, which was about $1350, and required a bank wire transfer. Still, it was only $50 above the
rhodium spot price at the time, and compared to the retail prices for relatively small amounts of rhodium compounds (or worse, rhodium-based
organometallic catalysts), it seems like a good value. The rhodium is 99.995% pure and is very finely powdered, so it's in ideal condition as a
starting material for chemical manipulation to produce one's own rhodium catalysts.
And, before anybody asks, no, I'm not interested in selling any rhodium, or any of my other chemicals, for that matter.
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Hexavalent
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Wow....you must surely be a footballer?
"Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." Winston Churchill
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thanos thanatos
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If you don't mind telling us, what's the appeal of the thallium? I guess I can understand if you're an element collector. Is that why? Other than for
that purpose, I can't think of any reason why anybody would want that stuff. It's highly toxic, moreso than, say mercury, and is a persistent
environmental hazard. I also can't think of any useful chemical properties of the metal or it's compounds that are unique to them and not
substitutable by less toxic reagents.
Maybe I'm missing something that makes thallium appealing for more than the collector or the poison maker. If so, what is it?
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Mailinmypocket
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Purely for element collecting purposes, gallium source just started carrying it recently and I've always wanted a sample just for show
http://www.mcssl.com/store/gallium-source/029---thallium-met...
[Edited on 1-8-2012 by Mailinmypocket]
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thanos thanatos
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That's what I figured. Thinking back over all the old Organic Synthesis papers I've read, online or otherwise, lots of them utilized one or more
highly toxic elements (or compounds of those elements), but I don't recall any that used thallium or thallium salts. It certainly wasn't because the
authors feared it's toxicity. Some toxic elements are routinely employed: arsenic, selenium, mercury, lead, barium, nickel, hexavalent chromium, etc.
Thallium just doesn't seem useful enough to overcome it's inherent dangers. It isn't useless - just search online and lots of chemical or
metallurgical uses pop up. It just isn't that useful in the organic chemistry lab.
This reminds me that I forgot a few recent purchases:
100g ThO2
500g Th(NO3)4 * 4H20
50g Br
The nitrate I bought because I got such a good deal on it - a little over $50. If you search around for thorium salts, you'll see what I mean. The
oxide, usually called thoria in old chemistry papers, is the more useful compound, IMHO.
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Eliteforum
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1kg yellow cake uranium.
All that glitters isn't gold.
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liquidlightning
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450g NaNO2, 99.6%
500ml 31.74& HCl, tech grade, yellow (need to distill it)
1000ml 30% H2SO4
500ml 30% H2O2
8 oz Drierite (calcium sulfate, cobalt chloride) Nice dessicant, turns red when wet, heat until blue to dry.
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woelen
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Maybe not really spectacular, but rare:
250 grams of sodium phosphite, Na2HPO3.5H2O
Phosphates and sodium hypophosphite are easy to obtain, but phosphite was very hard for me to find, but now I finally have some.
The stuff arrived today, if I have done interesting experiments with this, then I'll certainly add them to my website.
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barley81
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454g CaO
454g FeCl<sub>3</sub> anhydrous
200g W powder
454g Ca(OH)<sub>2</sub> (pickling lime from grocery)
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Hexavalent
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Very nice, woelen and barley81.
barley: where did you get your tungsten from?
"Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." Winston Churchill
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Siggebo
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I just ordered a pair of platinum electrodes - the school lab, rod variety usual with Pb, Cu and whatnot. Paid about 23 €, don't know if I made a
mistake yet but they were on sale (50%  ) from a reliable supplier.
Also got 10 PE one-litre bottles for cheap while I was at it, and some lead strips.
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barley81
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@Hexavalent,
The tungsten is from eBay. 200g cost me $20 shipped. You should be able to buy it (there are European sellers). It is used for adjusting the
floppiness of dog ears (cruel use).
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Hexavalent
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Good value, but I have to agree about its use.
Just out of curiosity, do you know just how it does alter the floppiness of dog ears?
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