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ITER: A useful nuclear fusion experiment or a waste of money ?
It's a useful endeavour if only for the learning process. Hardly any of our personal mad scientist e ...
19-4-2024 at 04:22
by: phlogiston
Extracting uranium from fiestaware
If you are going to powder this plate (or U ore for that matter), you should really try to be extrem ...
6-4-2024 at 15:31
by: phlogiston
burnt through steel crucible?
Are you -absolutely- sure it was really tin, and the copper wire wasn't any sort of copper-coated li ...
13-3-2024 at 06:42
by: phlogiston
Recrystallisation question - help me design an experiment for junior students
Recrystallisations are most commonly performed to purify compounds (ie reduce the amount of one or s ...
6-1-2024 at 16:13
by: phlogiston
Recrystallisation question - help me design an experiment for junior students
potassium chlorate and potassium chloride maybe?

Potassium chlorate crystalizes easily and quickl ...
4-1-2024 at 14:50
by: phlogiston
UV-Vis spectrometer
Its not very well suited for identifying organic chemicals in general.
Its an excellent technique/i ...
1-12-2023 at 16:00
by: phlogiston
What does this abbreviation mean?
"Jahrbücher" is plural, it might help a bit to use the singular "Jahrbuch".

A quick test turns u ...
10-10-2023 at 02:29
by: phlogiston
Radium extraction from watch hands
[quote]I know I lack chemistry notions, also if you can suggest somewhere to start studying it, its ...
2-10-2023 at 14:36
by: phlogiston
Radium extraction from watch hands
Not a native speaker either, but my understanding is that:
melting = heating a material so that its ...
1-10-2023 at 13:15
by: phlogiston
Radium extraction from watch hands
[rquote=687690&tid=159883&author=Sir_Gawain]Would nitric acid dissolve radium sulfate? I tho ...
30-9-2023 at 13:05
by: phlogiston
Radium extraction from watch hands
I think Telyron was planning to use the strontium to practice/test the procedure with. Sr chemistry ...
30-9-2023 at 05:46
by: phlogiston
Finding small amounts of Plutonium or U235?
I don't think we're having this discussion to actually help the allegedly superintelligent billionai ...
30-9-2023 at 03:17
by: phlogiston
Finding small amounts of Plutonium or U235?
In the video, they conveniently started with plutonium nitrate solution. The actual problem is how t ...
29-9-2023 at 14:14
by: phlogiston
Finding small amounts of Plutonium or U235?
[rquote=687596&tid=159878&author=Texium][rquote=687595&tid=159878&author=beerwiz]The ...
27-9-2023 at 01:39
by: phlogiston
Finding small amounts of Plutonium or U235?
I still can't tell whether you are trolling or not, so good job there if you are. It's a useless thr ...
26-9-2023 at 07:13
by: phlogiston
Finding small amounts of Plutonium or U235?
No offence, but are you serious?
What a bizarre request.

Its the combination of apparently findi ...
24-9-2023 at 13:13
by: phlogiston
Why is Beryllium so rare ?
I think you've already described the main reason: Be-8 is unstable. As to why -that- is: probably be ...
10-8-2023 at 12:12
by: phlogiston
Mysterious DEET insect-repellent formulation
It is not advisable to taste-test any chemical, especially not unknown ones, and es-especially not a ...
23-2-2023 at 05:58
by: phlogiston
worst stench
One class of compounds I haven't seen mentioned yet are alkynes.

In organic synthesis classes we' ...
4-2-2023 at 04:03
by: phlogiston
Hacking a test tube
another method is to heat the test tube where you want it to break and touch it with a cold metallic ...
17-11-2022 at 18:07
by: phlogiston
Lithium from Li2CO3 electrolysis ? It failed.
Quote from this paper
Arcaro, Sabrina & Berutti, F.A. & Alves, Annelise & Bergmann, Car ...
6-11-2022 at 11:55
by: phlogiston
Introducing me
Welcome from another Dutch member. Not as close to you as Woelen or Teodor, but seen in the context ...
4-11-2022 at 07:46
by: phlogiston
PTFE HF distillation apparatus
Very impressive, and I'm glad you do this and take the time to show it of here, so we can share in t ...
20-9-2022 at 12:12
by: phlogiston
Barium carbonate in uranium extraction
As he says @ 10:40, "But that is, of course, why I added the barium into there; it's to help pull th ...
13-9-2022 at 12:41
by: phlogiston
Thorium from monazite sand
What mineral contains the thorium? I don't know this particular locality, but generally, the thorium ...
12-8-2022 at 15:24
by: phlogiston
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