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Hydrogen Peroxide from Sodium Percarbonate
I tried this some years back. I tried acetone, and let a few grams of sodium percarbonate sit over a ...
8-6-2020 at 02:10
by: 12thealchemist
Isolation and Synthesis: Benzyne?
Welcome to Sciencemadness! And a very interesting question to start with! Unfortunately, the short a ...
1-6-2020 at 04:05
by: 12thealchemist
Copper(III)
I've succeeded in making KCuO[sub]2[/sub] by burning potassium with copper(II) oxide in an oxygen at ...
16-3-2020 at 11:25
by: 12thealchemist
Exocharmic Reaction (humour)
You give a rating out of 10 for charm, but could this be quantified? ;) :P

My first reaction as ...
19-2-2020 at 10:52
by: 12thealchemist
RBF heating blocks for hot plates
I believe they're very expensive, but basically indestructable. They also only hold specific sizes o ...
19-2-2020 at 10:49
by: 12thealchemist
Best materials for chemical work surfaces?
[rquote=630680&tid=154832&author=DavidJR][rquote=630671&tid=154832&author=12thealche ...
8-2-2020 at 10:30
by: 12thealchemist
Best materials for chemical work surfaces?
I've put some thought into this myself from time to time, and recently distilled my thoughts when ne ...
7-2-2020 at 11:44
by: 12thealchemist
anomalies in chemistry
[b]Density[/b]
The density of gallium, bismuth, silicon, and germanium are all higher in the liquid ...
7-2-2020 at 11:33
by: 12thealchemist
Interesting mono- or di-substituted pyridine synthesis
Just stumbled across this paper, which seems to be almost amateur friendly, and provides an easy rou ...
4-2-2020 at 07:09
by: 12thealchemist
Making uranium and thorium by electrolysis?
[rquote=630202&tid=154784&author=j_sum1]UCl3 melts at 850°C or thereabouts. Bromide and io ...
29-1-2020 at 11:43
by: 12thealchemist
Uranium (and Uranyl) compound synthesis info
There is a large body of information on uranium chemistry here: [url]http://uranium.atomistry.com/[/ ...
27-12-2019 at 02:13
by: 12thealchemist
Plastics recycling: why not treat waste as crude oil ?
The problem is you have to put in a lot of heat and energy to convert the plastic to crude oil, and ...
27-12-2019 at 02:10
by: 12thealchemist
How would you continue a chemistry hobby, if you had to move into an unsuitable living space?
All good advice in this thread

[rquote=628592&tid=154631&author=Heptylene]
I would just ...
26-12-2019 at 10:52
by: 12thealchemist
Keeping the vacuum pump clean
[rquote=628158&tid=154593&author=Jacob]I have a glass cold trap. Maybe filling it with miner ...
18-12-2019 at 12:13
by: 12thealchemist
Vacuum gauge calibration without a calibrated vacuum gauge?
You could use ethylene glycol (bp 196°C) and oligomers thereof as high-boiling point liquids that w ...
20-11-2019 at 10:37
by: 12thealchemist
webcam near UV-VIS-NIR spectrophotometer(proof of concept)
I hadn't considered the possibility of using a finer diffraction grating; from your results that cou ...
4-11-2019 at 09:54
by: 12thealchemist
webcam near UV-VIS-NIR spectrophotometer(proof of concept)
[rquote=625411&tid=154260&author=Ubya]
did you use a real diffraction grating? or you also ...
3-11-2019 at 01:17
by: 12thealchemist
webcam near UV-VIS-NIR spectrophotometer(proof of concept)
I tried a similar sort of project some months ago, but had mixed results. It could be a different we ...
2-11-2019 at 12:12
by: 12thealchemist
How amateur chemistry would look like nowadays if the internet isn't a thing?
Where would the chemist order them from?
2-11-2019 at 12:03
by: 12thealchemist
Mercury/HNO3 incident
[rquote=625309&tid=154259&author=Vanry][rquote=625303&tid=154259&author=12thealchemi ...
1-11-2019 at 09:35
by: 12thealchemist
Melted NaOH flowing/climbing up side of crucible & down outside
The one time I melted NaOH in a porcelain crucible, I ended up destroying it by simply dissolving/we ...
31-10-2019 at 12:05
by: 12thealchemist
Mercury/HNO3 incident
Rather than using elemental sulphur, a sulphide like sodium or potassium sulphide ought to be used t ...
31-10-2019 at 12:02
by: 12thealchemist
Constructing a Hershberg stirrer
Has anyone made one themselves, or got a photograph of one? Apparently, my PI wants a photograph and ...
24-10-2019 at 01:05
by: 12thealchemist
Making sodium by destiling Toluene or similar
Based on later work by NurdRage, only ethereal solvents like dioxane or glyme would work to coalesce ...
23-10-2019 at 10:55
by: 12thealchemist
Constructing a Hershberg stirrer
I've just started a PhD in a new group, and we want to construct a Hershberg stirrer for making sodi ...
23-10-2019 at 01:16
by: 12thealchemist
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