Latest chemical order?

500 g phthalic anhydride and 250 g magnesium turnings from eBay - 21 £.

Quote: Originally posted by mr.crow

Hooray for buying stuff in Canada!

I know! Awesomeness! I just ordered two items which I have no real use for per-se but I see them as chemical collectibles

5g Denatonium Saccharide (extremely/insanely bitter)
1g Nonivamide (synthetic variant of Capsaicin)

Of course as soon as these are received I will stupidly taste test a small dust particle of each for fun hehe

Quote: Originally posted by barley81

1lb Mg granules (99.8%, -50+100 mesh) 1lb KMnO<sub>4</sub> 1lb benzoic acid 1lb polyvinyl alcohol Total order, inc. shipping - $44.58 From my awesome chemistry teacher, hopefully: Phthalic anhydride t-butanol conc. ammonia

t-butanol! That would be wicked, Ive been searching for some for the longest time and cant find any through my usual supply companies

I guess because its spring im doing some spring chemical shopping because I ordered yet again, some are relatively basic things that I cant seem to find anywhere locally:

Malonic acid, 25g Reagent, : This is mainly for demos for friends lol, I am determined to show them the belousov zhabotinsky reaction!

Conc. NH4OH 500ml Reagent: Because these days household ammonia has became about as potent as watered down cat piss with perhaps some lemon perfume in it to make it even less useful for home chemistry.... I had to bite the bullet on this one... 28$

Potassium Iodate 100g reagent: One of the uses will be for the belousov reaction, I know I can make iodate rather easily but im lazy plus its a useful reagent

Conc HCl 500ml reagent: I must have 6 litres of hardware store muriatic, that being said I feel a bit silly paying so much for a small amount but I do need some HCl free of metal contamination for delicate experiments etc.

It annoyed me that I had to purchase reagent grade of this:

CAMPHOR ACS 100g for 15$- I am only 26 yrs old but I remember buying camphor blocks in almost every pharmacy, they were always in some infrequently used low traffic areas of the pharmacies, but they were there! I asked the pharmacist and she said that the company doesnt offer it anymore due to easier to use OTC creams and vapo rubs and god knows what else, of course. Then she told me to check the hardware store... I just came back home.

Also got an eyewash station, Corning PC-420D stir/hotplate (to replace my older PMC hotplate), various brushes, clearance kimax glassware, filter papers, ph papers, 1/4 lb of glass tubing, wash bottles pre-labelled for ethanol, methanol and isopropanol which I love! A second lab stand and some bossheads, glass funnel, claisen adapter and various adapters and a few other things I cant remember... feels like Christmas in April! minus my visa statement when it comes... :S



[Edited on 4-4-2012 by Mailinmypocket]

Quote: Originally posted by barley81

1lb Mg granules (99.8%, -50+100 mesh) 1lb KMnO<sub>4</sub> 1lb benzoic acid 1lb polyvinyl alcohol Total order, inc. shipping - $44.58 From my awesome chemistry teacher, hopefully: Phthalic anhydride t-butanol conc. ammonia

Thats AWESOME!

I just got 3 lbs NaOH(boring) and 25g thallium which was kind of neat to find

Quote: Originally posted by Hexavalent

Jeee-sus! How much did all of this come to?

I'm not sure, nor am I sure I wan't to know . These were acquired mostly as numerous small orders, although most of the metals were from 2 orders and most of organic compounds (minus the solvents) were in one order, which totalled about $650, although that included shipping (which is always significant for reagents, esp. with hazmat items in different categories having to ship separately).

The total is dominated by the Troy oz. of rhodium sponge, which was about $1350, and required a bank wire transfer. Still, it was only $50 above the rhodium spot price at the time, and compared to the retail prices for relatively small amounts of rhodium compounds (or worse, rhodium-based organometallic catalysts), it seems like a good value. The rhodium is 99.995% pure and is very finely powdered, so it's in ideal condition as a starting material for chemical manipulation to produce one's own rhodium catalysts.

And, before anybody asks, no, I'm not interested in selling any rhodium, or any of my other chemicals, for that matter.

Wow....you must surely be a footballer?

Quote: Originally posted by Mailinmypocket

Thats AWESOME! I just got 3 lbs NaOH(boring) and 25g thallium which was kind of neat to find

Purely for element collecting purposes, gallium source just started carrying it recently and I've always wanted a sample just for show

http://www.mcssl.com/store/gallium-source/029---thallium-met...

[Edited on 1-8-2012 by Mailinmypocket]

Quote: Originally posted by Mailinmypocket

Purely for element collecting purposes, gallium source just started carrying it recently and I've always wanted a sample just for show http://www.mcssl.com/store/gallium-source/029---thallium-met... [Edited on 1-8-2012 by Mailinmypocket]

I just ordered a pair of platinum electrodes - the school lab, rod variety usual with Pb, Cu and whatnot. Paid about 23 €, don't know if I made a mistake yet but they were on sale (50% ) from a reliable supplier.

Also got 10 PE one-litre bottles for cheap while I was at it, and some lead strips.

1Kg potassium chlorate
1Kg potassium nitrate
1Kg boric acid
1Kg magnesium powder (rough powder)
5Kg oxalic acid (wood bleaching)
500g strontium nitrate
Soxhlet extractor and condenser
50cm allihn condenser
1l RBF
A whole bunch of beakers (50ml-2000ml)
some flasks
1L benzene
288 5ml ampules
10ml measuring cilinder
20ml '' ''
500ml '' ''
lots of stir bars
watch glasses and petri dishes
some volumetric pipettes
1Kg silicon powder
100g molybdenum powder
1L glacial acetic acid
1troy ounce silver
measuring flasks
and more is on the way

Last week I got a 150g jar of fine Mg turnings in my mailbox. Today I found some sulfur at a store, thought "what the heck" and bought it. Turns out it was incorrectly labeled at the shelf, paid 75% of the supposed price because I pointed it out at the counter

From a couple sources,

100g Iodine, Sigma Aldrich
500ml H2SO4 98% ACS
125g (NH4)2Cr2O7
60g KMnO4
25g FeCl3
625g NH4NO3
125g NaNO3
125ml MEK
25g fine Fe powder
125ml Acetic Anhydride
125ml 85% Phosphoric acid
125g Salicylic acid
125ml Ethylene Glycol
25g Lead acetate
25g SiO2
25g Gelatin
25g Citric acid
25g Ascorbic acid
125g CaCl2
25g Hexamine
10g Methylene Blue
25g Phenolphthalein powder
25g Sodium Thiosulfate
25g KClO4
25g KClO3
25g Sb powder
25g Hg
125g S powder
125g Sodium Benzoate
125ml Hexane
25g Potassium ferrocyanide
625g KOH
625g KBr
125g Oxalic acid
50g Mg
200g CaC2
300g Mg Ingot
500ml 28% NH3 solution
500g BaCO3
500g SrCO3
100g CoCO3
100g NiCO3
1KG NaCO3
500ml Glacial Acetic acid
500ml Tert-Butyl
2.5L Nitric acid 68%
500g Na2Cr2O7
500ml DCM
1L Toluene
3KG NaOH

I think that's it

[Edited on 2012-10-13 by Fossil]

Nice!

Beats my order of a bottle of toluene

Quote: Originally posted by borrowedlawyer

... Fossil, did you get your iodine from that guy on eBay? Also how much did that come to? [Edited on 16-10-2012 by borrowedlawyer]

Quote: Originally posted by Fossil

Quote: Originally posted by borrowedlawyer   ... Fossil, did you get your iodine from that guy on eBay? Also how much did that come to? [Edited on 16-10-2012 by borrowedlawyer] Yes I did and it cost me 40$ including shipping to Canada. It was really quite fast and well packaged. I also didn't get any trouble from customs which is always nice.

i prefer to let pics do the talking.
i got a bunch of second hand beakers and stuff, a new long condenser etc from labstuff and one from laboy.
kitty was inspecting everything, drug sniffing cat !

I just got...
1 lb magnesium turnings
500 ml of tertiary butyl alcohol
8 lb of potassium hydroxide
45 grams iodine

The tertiary butyl alcohol came from a guy on eBay, and was only $15 + $8 shipping. I got the potassium hydroxide from essentialdepot.com. It comes packaged in 4 2lb HDPE containers and was only $13 + $15 shipping, so $28 overall for 8 pounds. By the way, if you ever buy from this website, you can use the promotion code "EDPC10" to get 10% off everything. I got the magnesium a while ago for $15. Time to make some potassium.

Quote: Originally posted by woelen

My last chemicals are the following: Pr6O11 (brown powder, dissolves easily in mineral acids) Er2O3 (pink powder, dissolves in mineral acids, but very slowly, takes many days) Na2S.xH2O (technical grade) The Na2S.xH2O is rather impure, it is brown instead of colorless. It is, however, a very nice source for making pure H2S-gas in a convenient way.

I think we ordered the Pr6O11 from the same person if you got it on eBay, nice stuff and pretty cheap I even got a small unexpected "gift" from them- a small ampoule with 500 mg samarium!

Not a special thing but this week we got some solvents what looked like this:


Nearly 150 liter of acetone, a lot methanol, ethanol, hexane, dichloromethane ect. I just love Sigma Aldrich

Quote: Originally posted by Swede

25 grams of RuCl3 - 3H2O Platinum group metals are expensive, but Ru is one of the lesser in terms of $$. I'd really love to get ahold of some palladium, platinum, and Iridium chlorides, but the $$ is challenging. All are destined for electrochemistry experiments. I also need to source some simple reagents like T-butanol, oxalic acid, and a couple of others to prepare some "paint & bake" electrochemical coatings.

^^^You sure it wasn't $25?

Quote: Originally posted by Swede

25 grams of RuCl3 - 3H2O Platinum group metals are expensive, but Ru is one of the lesser in terms of $$. I'd really love to get ahold of some palladium, platinum, and Iridium chlorides, but the $$ is challenging. All are destined for electrochemistry experiments. I also need to source some simple reagents like T-butanol, oxalic acid, and a couple of others to prepare some "paint & bake" electrochemical coatings.

Quote: Originally posted by Pyro

wtf! 100lb KNO3?? what for?

Quote: Originally posted by Pyro

wtf! 100lb KNO3?? what for?

That could make a heck of a lot of black powder!

Quote: Originally posted by hyfalcon

I live in the US and I did get it from the farm store. Greenhouse grade. Half if for my pyro friend in Louisiana. The other half is for my own BP.

Just got 10g of platinized asbestos in the mail today from a guy in Germany

Quote: Originally posted by Fossil

Go to the country (I was in northern Ontario) and look for a store that sells water purification products, they usually sell potassium permanganate to remove iron impurities from well water. The store that I went to sold 2.5kg tubs of the stuff for around 50$. I didn't buy any so I can't say anything on the purity, but it looked quite pure.

A local plumbing store sold me this for about 50$, I found it by googling "my city+potassium permanganate"

My latest restock

This is from several different companies including local suppliers.

Some I just grabbed for the awesome prices they were offering with no immediate synthesis or use in mind (like acetic anhydride, I knew it was useful, but Didn't know it was a sched II precursor until After i received it... ), either way, I have offered family in the local sheriffs office to tour my lab anytime they please, to which they show no interest, unless it's blowing up gummy bears and the like, they love watching shit explode.... good thing I have no interest in explosive chemistry or they'd all be here wanting me to blow up something....Really sad when you think about it ....That is the Southern US for you...

Anyway, last orders came to~ this:

4oz Mercury Metal
2oz Chlorobenzene
4oz Acetic Anhydride
1oz Calcium Metal
4oz Activated Charcoal
1oz Citric Acid
4oz Diatomaceous Earth
4oz Ethylene Glycol
16oz Formaldehyde
1oz Formamide
4oz Hexamethylene Tetramine USP
16oz Hydrochloric Acid 37% ACS
1oz Lugol's Iodine
3x Magnesium Metal Ribbon - 3ft
4oz Manganese Dioxide
15g Mercurous Chloride ACS
4oz Phosphoric Acid
1oz Potassium Thiocyanate
1oz Potassium Sodium Tartrate
1oz Sulfamic Acid
1oz Trichloroacetic Acid
16oz ACS Sulfuric Acid
8oz Hexamine
12oz Dichloromethane (Methylene Chloride)
4oz Dichlorobenzene
16oz Benzoic Acid
8oz Para-Formaldehyde
1oz Magnesium Nitrate
1oz Magnesium Oxide
16oz Glacial Acetic Acid
8oz Salicyclic Acid
8oz Sulfur ACS
8oz Potassium Chlorate
16oz Potassium Hydroxide
16oz Sodium Hydroxide
100g Manganese Permanganate
Cans of
Toluene
Acetone
Methyl Ethyl Ketone (MEK)
Naphthalene

and several others I cannot remember ATM,

And, Don't forget the
DOT Exempt Poison Pak Shipping! That is NOT cheap

Quote: Originally posted by zenosx

And, Don't forget the DOT Exempt Poison Pak Shipping! That is NOT cheap

Damned poison packs...

I got a little something today... Not extremely useful to me, but still cool it's a very nice vitamin c (ascorbic acid) indicator





[Edited on 8-11-2012 by Mailinmypocket]

Just popped down to the hardware store to grab some stuff today.

I purchased:
- 1L acetone
- 1L Toluene
- 1L Hydrochloric acid
- 1L 30% phosphoric acid, which is all milky white and soapy

Quartz tube!

Not a chemical but sort of neat- a huge quartz tube! It was given to me by a friend who works at a chlorate/chlorite plant not far from here. They replaced these which are used to encapsulate sensors in the electrolysis reactors. I'm guessing it could be used as a test tube?







[Edited on 13-11-2012 by Mailinmypocket]

Quote: Originally posted by Mailinmypocket

Not a chemical but sort of neat- a huge quartz tube! It was given to me by a friend who works at a chlorate/chlorite plant not far from here. They replaced these which are used to encapsulate sensors in the electrolysis reactors. I'm guessing it could be used as a test tube? Quartz is neat stuff to be sure. I bought three boxes of tubing made by Heraeus sealed in plastic with specs on each tube enclosed in the plastic. It was used for making fiber optic cable. I couldn't resist because it was so cheap on ebay at the time. There are these quartz "test tubes" for sale on eBay now, kind of nice too. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Fused-Quartz-Test-Tube-1-6-Dameter-L... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4nGPI6DTLw [Edited on 13-11-2012 by Morgan]

All from eBay, total was £26.36

-500g copper sulfate pentahydrate

-500mL 69% nitric acid

-800g benzoic acid

-500ml 25% ammonia

Quote: Originally posted by Hexavalent

All from eBay, total was £26.36 -500g copper sulfate pentahydrate -500mL 69% nitric acid -800g benzoic acid -500ml 25% ammonia

Isn't receiving chemicals the best thing ever?

'Tis, equal to receiving new glassware

Quote: Originally posted by mr.crow

I can't believe I spent $200 on GL45 caps. The fancy fluropolymer ones. I'm also sad VWR now requires a company name and contact

Back when I was selling MMO anodes and shipping them from the USA worldwide, the shipping costs were extreme... I hope you understand it is the shipping companies that are ripping us all off, not the chemical companies.

The options were typically like this...

Private shipping companies - $25 to $50 and a week to 10 days
Postal services premium express mail - same deal
Surface shipments - $12, but 6 to 8 weeks!

So it's a no-win situation. Then, there's customs fees and sometimes customs confiscations, which the buyer sometimes blames on the shipper! Of course, in those cases, it's the country laws themselves which are at fault.

Re: the book, my guess is it is a print to order book.

Quote: Originally posted by Mailinmypocket

1L of 50% HF in what seems to be an inappropriate bottle... Now I am debating disposing of it or rebottling it into something more suitable... Damn.

Don't dispose of it like that guy did with hydrazine . Try and find a polypropylene or Ryton (PPS) or Teflon container as they are suitable for storage according to a compatibility chart.

If you can't find one, convert it to a salt and ship it to me .

[Edited on 26-11-2012 by borrowedlawyer]

Quote: Originally posted by borrowedlawyer

Quote: Originally posted by Mailinmypocket   1L of 50% HF in what seems to be an inappropriate bottle... Now I am debating disposing of it or rebottling it into something more suitable... Damn. Don't dispose of it like that guy did with hydrazine . Try and find a polypropylene or Ryton (PPS) or Teflon container as they are suitable for storage according to a compatibility chart. If you can't find one, convert it to a salt and ship it to me . [Edited on 26-11-2012 by borrowedlawyer]

Just ordered some small volumes of,

aniline
formaldehyde
sulfuric acid
30% ammonium hydroxide soln.
toluene
and some new electrodes!

Can't wait for them to come! Finally have enough glass-ware to actually work on some fun synthesis projects.

Quote: Originally posted by smaerd

Just ordered some small volumes of, aniline formaldehyde sulfuric acid 30% ammonium hydroxide soln. toluene and some new electrodes! Can't wait for them to come! Finally have enough glass-ware to actually work on some fun synthesis projects.

Quote: Originally posted by smaerd

Will elemental scientific ship to Canada? It's pretty expensive from them(18$ for ~114g). Then again it sure beats making benzene, making nitric acid, nitrating and reducing. I'm sure some amateurs will disagree with that, but I'm content with saving my benzene for other E.A.S. reactions. Aniline opens a lot of synthetic door-ways really excited! I'm still waiting on getting an inert gas tank(probably go cheap and go for N2), I don't really need one yet, but it sure would be nice for some of the research projects I have in mind.

They ship to Canada but the price is ridiculous... I wouldn't mind paying their price for the chemical but if I remember correctly including shipping, a poison pack and something else but I forget what, it was going to be like 60 bucks for the smallest size screw that! I have benzene but I'd rather keep it for other projects.

Quote: Originally posted by Lambda-Eyde

Benzene can be easily made in ridiculous quantities. Anyone can get ahold of sodium benzoate and sodium hydroxide. In the mindset of a home chemist it is a "renewable" resource. I don't see why you'd want to "save" it. Make a liter and convert it to nitrobenzene, bromobenzene, chlorobenzene, alkylbenzenes and acylbenzenes... Then you're set!

Right now my current living situation makes it difficult to make benzene unfortunately. Living in the city with lots of snoop-a-holics on all three sides of my backyard makes me leery of doing it out there. Indoors is out of the question, some things I will do but distilling benzene? Hmmm nah! I'm "saving" the almost 1l I have because it is mallinckrodt reagent grade and was pretty damned expensive when I bought it. I'm not that pressed to get aniline anyways, although it would be nice

Also just got back from the "chemical store" in town and got:

4 litres glacial acetic - 21.99 CAD
4 litres 28% ammonia solution- 12.95 CAD
4 litres denatured EtOH - 18 CAD

The chemical store is like the candy shop for chemists!




[Edited on 1-12-2012 by Mailinmypocket]

[Edited on 1-12-2012 by Mailinmypocket]

Quote: Originally posted by Mailinmypocket

Quote: Originally posted by smaerd   Just ordered some small volumes of, aniline formaldehyde sulfuric acid 30% ammonium hydroxide soln. toluene and some new electrodes! Can't wait for them to come! Finally have enough glass-ware to actually work on some fun synthesis projects. Aniline! Nice! I'm looking for a source of it in Canada but it is proving to be difficult. I just bought a small cylinder of argon from BOC gases, still need to find an affordable regulator though.

Quote: Originally posted by Mailinmypocket

Aniline! Nice! I'm looking for a source of it in Canada but it is proving to be difficult.

Quote: Originally posted by UnintentionalChaos

Quote: Originally posted by Mailinmypocket   Aniline! Nice! I'm looking for a source of it in Canada but it is proving to be difficult. Try buying acetanilide. In the US at least, this is not considered hazardous for shipping, it is a solid, and it is rapidly hydrolyzed by warming with HCl and then basifying. The dark oil is then steam distilled, salted out, dried with NaOH or KOH, and vacuum distilled to water-clear aniline in good yield. [Edited on 12-1-12 by UnintentionalChaos]

That sounds like a relatively easy method and an interesting process. I can get acetanilide on eBay - Thanks! Ill give it a try

IrC: I placed a bid on the first one, my cylinder is at 11,500kPa so that regulator can easily handle it. I was just a bit uncertain of buying those on eBay due to safety concerns but it looks fine. Still 12 hours on the bid though so we will see where it gets to.

Has anyone seen the eBay listing of 5 chemical bottles for $100? It was a pain in the butt to decode all the CAS numbers and all the good stuff appears to be gone. I did get a few good things out of it

Also, has anyone heard of http://www.erlenmeyers.com/? I ordered some super fancy GL45 bottle caps, but they haven't even processed the order yet >: ( thank gawd for paypal

Yay my expensive-ass caps shipped!



To bad I won't be able to do any experiments for a long time moving

Quote: Originally posted by mr.crow

Yay my expensive ass-caps shipped!

2lb KOH
500ml Tert-Butanol
1lb Ammonium Perchlorate
1lb German Dark Al
1lb Magnalium
1lb KCLO4

and a bunch of other glassware

Not really chemicals, but I just got some items from elemental scientific...

2 150ml Pyrex beakers
2 250ml Pyrex beakers
1 400ml Pyrex beaker
1 600ml Pyrex beaker
1 1000ml Pyrex beaker
2 250ml Pyrex Erlenmeyer flasks
1 500ml Pyrex Erlenmeyer flask
1 1000ml Pyrex Erlenmeyer flask
1 Thermometer, -30 to 50 C
2 Thermometer, -10 to 250 C
1 Thermometer, -10 to 400 C
1 Filter Paper, Qualitative, Fast Flow, 70mm

The thermometers are all nice mercury ones, and the glass is all Pyrex, and all for less than $90 too. I love elemental...

Quote: Originally posted by Kaifas

Sodium salts dissolves much better than potassium salts so it is reason to use both potassium and sodium. I use oxidizers to do some Copper perclorate (binds strongly to nitrogen bases) and copper(III) compounds and making different copper complexes . Copper(I)cyanade goes to Gillman reagents. Copper(II)chloride is starting material to do Glacer couplings. Copper powder goes to Ullman coupling reactions. Sodium nitrate is exellent for mild nitration systems because of good solubility. It is difficult to byu chemicals here too.