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Chemical Reactions for Beginner Chemist
I'm getting in to amateur chemistry but need some good idea's for reactions.
I don't want to work with too toxic chemicals (i don't go past a blue 2 on a fire diamond).
I've done a few reactions such as making iodine, nitric acid, r-candy.
I'm looking to brew and distill my own ethanol, and make chloroform.
What experiments do you recommend and if it's not easy what to do with the waste.
Thanks a lot  .
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What compounds do you have?
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HCl 37% (only use it when i have to)
H2O2 11%
H2SO4 0.25 moldm^-3
Anhydrous NaOH
anhydrous Sodium Sulfite
Sodium Benzoate
about to order a lot more chemicals:
Acetone
Ferric Chloride 40% solution
Potassium Permangenate
Copper Sulphate
Zinc sulphate
Methanol 99%
Denatured Ethanol 96%
Potassium Ferrocyanide.
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With what you have/ are going to buy, I can see only one good project. Make HCN 
But seriously, you could try extracting gold from something, you have all the chemicals that you need, nitric and hydrochloric to dissolve, and
sulfite + HCl create SO2 to precipitate the gold. If you don't have any gold things, try buying a cheap catalytic converter for precious metals.
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With permanganate is lot of fun - with permanganate you can do quite interesting redox chemistry, for example:
https://colourchem.wordpress.com/2019/07/13/manganese-redox-...
https://woelen.homescience.net/science/chem/exps/chameleon/i...
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You can make sodium bisulfate and from this pyrosulfate. Both of them are good reagent. With exchange reaction you can make different inorganic salts.
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Copper hydroxide from sulfate and NaOH an next copper chloride and Na or K tetrachlorocuprates.
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Make a Prussian blue.
Make a sodium zincate and zinc oxide. Add zinc oxide in copper sulfate solution and make copper particles. If you ever have mercury mix it and you
will get a soft amalgam like clay.
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A technique/skill that is very useful for purification is re-crystalisation,
so you could practice growing various crystals,
for purification and/or pretty crystal specimens.
Copper can be interesting,
you may find something to interest you here: http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=62608
I like some of the experiments on woelen's site,
and I watch some YouTube chemistry videos for inspiration.
Always protect your eyes, have fun, stay safe ... and welcome
CAUTION : Hobby Chemist, not Professional or even Amateur
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Quote: Originally posted by Triflic Acid  | | With what you have/ are going to buy, I can see only one good project. Make HCN
But seriously, you could try extracting gold from something, you have all the chemicals that you need, nitric and hydrochloric to dissolve, and
sulfite + HCl create SO2 to precipitate the gold. If you don't have any gold things, try buying a cheap catalytic converter for precious metals.
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Thanks, I think i have some old computer parts wich would be very cool to do. I can always order chemicals needed if there are good
experiments/projects i can do.
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This webpage may be a good read for a starter:
https://woelen.homescience.net/science/chem/misc/homelab.htm...
It gives some guidelines on what you can buy best, so that you have maximum freedom in exploring chemistry with only limited cost.
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