ThePhDChemist
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Light Bulb for boiling chemicals in
Hello, can I use empty light bulbs for heating/boiling chemicals.
I readed in one military survival book that you can, but what if glass goes into my eyes? At least can i use it for concentrating sulfuric acid. If I
can't with direct flame, then can i do it by putting lighter under inverted tin can, and on top put light bulb, so it won't be direct flame?
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Steve_hi
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A light bulb is too thin it would be dangerous
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It does work, check out one of my other threats on Make shift glassware 
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hissingnoise
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 Er, threats? Where . . . ?
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The threat of concentrating H2SO4 using a fucking light bulb, Look im all for make shift stuff as most here will know but dude, use you brain. Never
use make shift when danger is involved. I much like yourself enjoy the use of my fingers, eyes and other vital parts.... why risk them on something as
simple as concentration of Sulfuric acid? Think man... THINK!
Knowledge is useless to useless people...
"I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes. The fall of Rome, the fall of Germany — the
fall of the ruling country, the people who think they can do whatever they want without anybody else's consent. I've seen this story
before."~Maynard James Keenan
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https://www.sciencemadness.org/whisper/viewthread.php?tid=17...
if your gonna be boiling corrosive acids, you would want to take every precautions... eg... if i was gonna be boiling sulfuric acid, id have a
portable stove with a pot on top filled with sand and bury the bulb into the sand, so if the bulb was gonna brake then the acid is still contained in
something and no big spillage is made, it can then be kinda safely moved and neutralized, the method suggested above is a direct flame which could
cause the glass to fail and HOT corrosive acid goes everywhere and really had to clean...
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What could possibly happen if he heats it properly, and not in a naked flame like most people here seem to do, but have no idea it's not by the book?
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hissingnoise
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Rather than use a RBF for concentrating sulphuric acid, my choice was a pyrex casserole dish.
Tempered soda-lime glass is not suitable; it must be genuine borosilicate pyrex!
Using bulb envelopes would be a nightmare . . .
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