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How do I seal a glass ampoule in inert atmosphere?
I've just been doing a bit of this myself - and am pretty pleased with the technique I came up with ...
9-2-2016 at 02:58
by: ahill
Ethanol in Australia
..lately I've been using Spirytus Rektyfikowany.

..bit expensive, and 5% water, but readily avail ...
16-12-2015 at 17:02
by: ahill
heptane in Oz ?
[quote]I think you mean starter fluid; lighter fluid is usually petroleum distillates.[/quote]


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4-12-2015 at 00:26
by: ahill
heptane in Oz ?
Anyone know where I can get some heptane ?

I could use a liter or two.

..I'd be pretty happy t ...
2-12-2015 at 14:54
by: ahill
Obtaining chemicals
@Mesa - yeah I did used to distill the Bunnings shellite before I used it. Someone suggested a produ ...
13-11-2015 at 01:17
by: ahill
Chemical storage and ZnSO4
@cyanureeves I keep my >90% nitric acid in ground glass stoppered bottles which are then kept in ...
11-11-2015 at 02:56
by: ahill
Obtaining chemicals
Bunnings Hardware. In particular the gardening section will have CuSO4, along with a lot of other ha ...
11-11-2015 at 02:48
by: ahill
Anyone have a Linux or OS X machine w/32 GB RAM?
@aga sure - that was what I was offering. Like I said - hours or days - not weeks or months.

The ...
20-10-2015 at 23:10
by: ahill
Anyone have a Linux or OS X machine w/32 GB RAM?

..sounds really interesting.

Is AWS an option ? If the other offers fall thru, I'd be happy to ...
20-10-2015 at 14:26
by: ahill
OTC ammonia in OZ
[rquote=419817&tid=63674&author=NedsHead]ahill, try Paramount chemicals in Preston[/rquote]
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20-9-2015 at 20:53
by: ahill
OTC ammonia in OZ
I find myself wanting ammonia for lots of things, on this occasion, to make up some ammonium chlorid ...
20-9-2015 at 17:05
by: ahill
OTC ammonia in OZ
..anyone know where I can get pure OTC ammonia (hydroxide) in Australia ?

(I'm in Melbourne)

I ...
17-9-2015 at 16:18
by: ahill
Tenacious beaker stains
I use 28% hardware grade HCl and 3% H2O2 on the stains that have beaten everything else.

Very che ...
28-7-2015 at 17:28
by: ahill
Throwing objects down from satellites - would it work? Why not?
quoting xkcd twice in the one thread.

https://xkcd.com/1356/

Its funny, 'cause its true.

S ...
22-5-2015 at 18:36
by: ahill
Nitrogen dioxide mitigation in production of silver nitrate?
Hey Etaoin,

I made silver nitrate the other week - I was very happy with the end result - but I r ...
25-3-2015 at 18:26
by: ahill
Ferric ammonium oxalate for sale - Australia only
thanks jsum.

the print is on A4 water color paper - the original scan was 2538x4192 - I resized i ...
1-3-2015 at 15:27
by: ahill
Ferric ammonium oxalate for sale - Australia only
Got my potassium ferricyanide last week, and today I made my first cyanotype prints.

They worked ...
28-2-2015 at 00:27
by: ahill
Ferric ammonium oxalate for sale - Australia only
Hey All - Warteo just dropped one of these off for me - it seems to be the real deal, and so does he ...
17-2-2015 at 20:39
by: ahill
poor yield - chloroform via haloform reaction
Thanks everyone for their input - the stolen mols have been recovered.

As was apparent to a numbe ...
15-2-2015 at 00:28
by: ahill
poor yield - chloroform via haloform reaction
thanks for the input everyone. I'll give it another whirl using bleach from somewhere else - in the ...
8-2-2015 at 14:47
by: ahill
poor yield - chloroform via haloform reaction
Yeah - I am actually really jealous of their disappointing results - they are getting something lik ...
8-2-2015 at 01:07
by: ahill
Alibaba as a source
I've bought maybe a dozen items via aliexpress. Very mixed experiences - even from the same vendor. ...
8-2-2015 at 00:40
by: ahill
poor yield - chloroform via haloform reaction
Hi - I'm trying to make chloroform from hardware store acetone and sodium hypochlorite bleach. I've ...
7-2-2015 at 23:34
by: ahill
Austrian Law
I had a visit from some police yesterday afternoon. (Melbourne, Australia)

I wasn't actually home ...
29-1-2015 at 15:07
by: ahill
distillation - seperating fractions under vacuum
Ah yes - a cow receiver. Just the business. And what a great name - I've been chuckling since I sear ...
22-1-2015 at 16:24
by: ahill
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