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Does sodium hydroxide decompose ethanol?
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Only the first treatment with NaOH produced tar. The second time ...
8-3-2022 at 09:47
by: YoctoByte
Does sodium hydroxide decompose ethanol?
I'm trying to make some pure ethanol via fermentation. After one distillation the ethanol smelled re ...
7-3-2022 at 03:35
by: YoctoByte
Nitric Acid and Silver Nitrate
Coincidentally I found an interesting procedure for selectively removing silver plate in a book abou ...
11-10-2020 at 02:08
by: YoctoByte
Aluminium metal + base as a dehydrating agent?
If you don't want to waste a good flask you can also dry the salt in a glass oven dish. Since MgSO4 ...
3-10-2020 at 23:52
by: YoctoByte
Nitric Acid and Silver Nitrate
Thanks! I'll try electrolysis then.

Another method I just thought of is to dissolve most of the s ...
1-10-2020 at 02:14
by: YoctoByte
Collection of bromine preps
A method I used a few years ago was to oxidize sodium bromide with MnO2. This reaction works for chl ...
28-9-2020 at 01:01
by: YoctoByte
Nitric Acid and Silver Nitrate
I have some silver plated flatware from which I want to remove the silver metal. Using nitric acid w ...
27-9-2020 at 23:37
by: YoctoByte
Aluminium metal + base as a dehydrating agent?
But wouldn't Na3AlO3 irreversibly react with water to form NaAl(OH)4 and NaOH? Because then it would ...
27-9-2020 at 23:22
by: YoctoByte

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