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Productivity During the Downtime?

UnintentionalChaos - 19-1-2012 at 10:38

So, you had a day without the forum online, depriving you of time spent reporting spam, harassing noobs wishing to be spoonfed, and arguing fruitlessly amongst yourselves in certain threads.

Did anyone get any chemistry done?

Well, aside from me. I ran my first grignard, which went smoothly. Video in the next few days for those who follow my youtube. :D

hkparker - 19-1-2012 at 11:21

I had my first college lab! We wen't over the synthesis I'm doing next week, tris(acytlacetoto)iron(III). I'm pretty excited for it even though its strait forward. My professors are all awesome, and I'm learning a lot of things I kinda knew and were exposed to, but now fully understand.

I also learned I'm not allowed to film or take pictures in the university lab :P

In lecture were talking about lasers and particle/wave duality. fun fun.

Glad to hear the grignard went well UC! Looking forward to watching it.

AirCowPeaCock - 19-1-2012 at 11:28

I finally got my Hydrazine sulfate synthesis to work out, I never had enough yield to get the di(methylethyl)azine to separate, but I extracted with xylol and got more yield than I needed. Great, but I feel stupid for not thinking of this before. I got advise to use toluene, but I didn't have any--though it sparked the xylol idea. Almost done with the luminol synthesis, I should finish it today!

Pulverulescent - 19-1-2012 at 13:30

(:() Me. . . I just looked at the fucking screen and contemplated self-immolation! :cool:

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Magpie - 19-1-2012 at 14:07

Quote: Originally posted by UnintentionalChaos  
I ran my first grignard, which went smoothly.


Nice going! I'm curious as to how you dried your ether?

UnintentionalChaos - 19-1-2012 at 15:55

Quote: Originally posted by Magpie  
Quote: Originally posted by UnintentionalChaos  
I ran my first grignard, which went smoothly.


Nice going! I'm curious as to how you dried your ether?


I let it sit for 24 hours over sodium, then distilled it from some fresh sodium. I recently invested in a half kilo of it and am quite pleased with my purchase.

zoombafu - 19-1-2012 at 16:26

I prepared some nutrient agar petri dishes, and then inoculated them with fungi spores. I just got an incubator the other day, so hopefully all goes well! (although I am very worried about contamination)

White Yeti - 22-1-2012 at 10:48

Interestingly enough, I put almost all my chemistry on hold. I did try condensing some SO2 one night, when the temperature outside dropped below -15 centigrade.

Ultimate failure, maybe I'll try it again later.

I'm trying to prepare sodium thiocyanate for a demo, but have been unsuccessful thus far.

stygian - 22-1-2012 at 11:47

Quote: Originally posted by Pulverulescent  
(:() Me. . . I just looked at the fucking screen and contemplated self-immolation! :cool:

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