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[*] posted on 2-3-2015 at 16:02


After 3 months waiting, they finally arrived.

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Leave you translation as homework
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[*] posted on 2-3-2015 at 16:11


I can't read the one on the bottom left, but some of the labels are really hard to translate, what could "potasio dicromato" be?:D From the looks of it, it looks like 30% H2O2, K2Cr2O7, Na2S2O3, MnSO4, KIO3, and NaNO3 yes?
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[*] posted on 2-3-2015 at 16:18


Quote: Originally posted by Argentum  
After 3 months waiting, they finally arrived.



Leave you translation as homework

Hydrogen peroxide
mumble mumble pink lid
potassium dichromate
sodium thiosulfate
manganese sulfate
potassium iodate
sodium nitrate

Looks like some redox titrations going on.

[edit] ninja'd!

[Edited on 3-3-2015 by j_sum1]
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[*] posted on 2-3-2015 at 17:35


"Mumble mumble pink lid" is actually starch (almidón in spanish). It was my secret weapon but unfortunately I took the picture with few light. Anyways, both of you got 100% in spanish:D
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[*] posted on 3-3-2015 at 00:01


Some special chemicals (this time for experimenting, not for sample collection):
- sodium cacodylate
- arsenic 99+%

Cacodylate (arsenic in oxidation state +5) is much less toxic than cacodyl (arsenic in oxidation state +2) and cacodyl oxide (arsenic in oxidation state +3). I only purchased 10 grams, enough for some simple experiments.

I will be very careful with these chemicals!!




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[*] posted on 8-3-2015 at 07:24


Quote: Originally posted by Magpie  
Quote: Originally posted by Mailinmypocket  
Not a reagent but I found this at an antique store. The woman sold it for 3$ and called it a "smoking lamp" fml. I don't even know what to use it for... Distilling or steam generating, I guess. Although I have better things to do both of those. Oh well! Score nonetheless :P




That's what we used as a distillation flask in the old days before the advent of RBFs and ground glassware. I have one but never use it. ;)


I have about 5 of these in varying sizes. They are pretty useful for quick and dirty distilling.
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[*] posted on 16-5-2015 at 09:53


Potassium bromide 100g Potassium Bromide 1 $4.71 $4.71 Return
Sodium iodide 100g Sodium iodide 100g 1 $10.52 $10.52 Return
Acetic anhydride 100ml Acetic anhydride 100ml 1 $5.81 $5.81 Return
Ammonium chloride 99,5% - 100g Amo Chloride 1 $2.21 $2.21 Return
Sodium chlorate 100g Sodium chlorate 1 $8.03 $8.03 Return
Sodium hydroxide 100g NaOH 1 $2.21 $2.21 Return
Zinc(II) oxide 99,9% - 100g Zinc oxide 1 $2.77 $2.77 Return
Vanadium powder 99% - 10g V powder 10g 1 $6.64 $6.64 Return
Zirconium Metal 99,8% - 10g Granules Zr grains 10g 1 $4.98 $4.98 Return
Manganese powder 150µm - 50g Mn powder 50g 1 $6.92 $6.92 Return
Ammonium nitrate
- Amount: 100g Am NItrat 1 $5.26 $5.26 Return
Copper(II) sulfate pentahydrate
- Amount: 250g Copper sulfate 1 $3.88 $3.88 Return
Ammonium phosphate
- Amount: 100g Amo Phos 1 $6.92 $6.92 Return
Sub-Total: $70.86
Courier: $0.00
Total: $70.86




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[*] posted on 16-5-2015 at 13:25


My last order ... well that's been like 2 or 3 months already...

I think it was

- Sodium Cacodylate ( strange that woelen bought the same stuff xD )

- Sodium Boronhydride

- And the main chemical for my research (100g) that I won't really spell out here ^^ .

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[*] posted on 29-5-2015 at 05:57


I discovered that farm supply stores here sell 20L containers of 10.3% NaOCl! Much better than paying for bottles of pool shock


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Note to self: Tare the damned flask.
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[*] posted on 1-6-2015 at 14:40


I bought some Oxalic Acid and Potassium Hydroxide.
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[*] posted on 1-6-2015 at 15:09


Here's a great product. Mixed acids from the local farm supply store. It arrived togay (that's togay as I am very gay today).

Got a few gallons of glycerine just in case I run out :P



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[*] posted on 1-6-2015 at 16:26


Jock88, are you going to attempt to separate the nitric and sulfuric acids or just leave as is?
Do you know what proportions it is?
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[*] posted on 2-6-2015 at 09:56



I don't know what the proportions are. Actually I lied, as I did not purchase only took a picture of it on the shelf.
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[*] posted on 2-6-2015 at 16:25


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaG5SAw1n0c



all above information is intellectual property of Pyro. :D
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[*] posted on 4-6-2015 at 08:58


My last Order consisted of some Oxalylchloride, MTBE, Diethylamine, 2-Butylamine, NaBH4 and a few grams of 5-Bromoindole.
So glad i´m not living in the land of freedom!
Next order will consist of more fresh Red-Al, 3-Fluorobenzaldehyd and fumaric acid, i like this stuff, but one needs so much of it (Red-Al, not the fumaric acid :D)...

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[*] posted on 9-6-2015 at 04:53


Chromium Trioxide 500g (Cos it was cheap. Cos I can. Cos there are a bunch of interesting things that I can do with it. Thanks to all who helped answer my questions.)
Ammonium Chloride 500g (Because I don't currently have any ammonium salts)
Potassium Nitrate 3000g (How useful is that? And only marginally more expensive than 500g.)
Sodium Nitrite 500g (Because it is useful to make N2 gas simply and is probably the easiest way for me of getting an inert atmosphere)
Sodium sulfite 500g (Good to have a reducing agent without the limitations of thiosulfate)
Zeolite 3A molecular sieve 500g (always good to have some on hand)


Next up... a round of acids. Followed by some glassware. Followed by some nice element acquisitions -- Na, Ce, Ca, Se
And then I might consider my lab stocked -- at least for now.

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[*] posted on 11-6-2015 at 09:06


Sodium Sulfite
Ammonium Persulfate
Copper Sulfate
Benzyl Alcohol
TCCA
Sodium Acetate Anhydrous




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[*] posted on 11-6-2015 at 10:06


Not chemicals, but I recently ordered a full set of 14/20 distillation glassware for doing small scale organic chem. Half from Dr.Bob, half new Synthware from AliExpress. :)



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[*] posted on 11-6-2015 at 22:35


Quote: Originally posted by j_sum1  
[...]Sodium Nitrite 500g (Because it is useful to make N2 gas simply and is probably the easiest way for me of getting an inert atmosphere)
[...]
[Edited on 9-6-2015 by j_sum1]

It is not only interesting for making N2, but it is amazing to see how many interesting experiments you can do with nitrite. The ion is quite reactive in aqueous solutions, and it allows formation of many complexes, but also formation of organic nitrites is extremely easy.

Some nice experiments with it:
- Making gaseous CH3-O-NO with methanol and some dilute acid and burning the gas (note: flame color is really weird, it is gray). You can also make ethyl nitrite, isopropyl nitrite and higher nitrites very easily.
- Complexes with many metals. Think of copper, cobalt, nickel.
- A very weird reaction with thiocyanate ion in acidic solution.
- As a mild oxidizer, but sometimes also useful as mild reductor.




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[*] posted on 12-6-2015 at 21:47


Thanks woelen.
That grey flame sounds intriguing. (Is it perchance a blue-ish low temperature flame with some soot in it?)
I have a lot to learn about complexes. Looking forward to experimenting.
Thiocyanate is on the to-buy list as well. I will have to play with that.
Always a mine of information. :)

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[*] posted on 23-6-2015 at 05:27


Some interesting things since my last post:

Acetic anhydride, 1L - for cellulose acetate, acetyl chloride, aspirin, etc.
Calcium propionate, 500g - eventually to form propionamide and mono- and di-ethylamine
Dextrin, 450g - because making it myself is a pain.
Monosodium glutamate, 225g - I'm curious about the taste, and I can experiment with glutamic acid, alpha-glutaric acid, etc.
CuO, 900g - for CuO/Al thermite
Potassium persulfate, 450g - Myriad of uses from cleaning glass to explosive metal persulfate salts
CaO, 450g - Because roasting CaCO3 is messy and introduces contaminants. Experiments with guanidine and cyanamide.
Potsssium ferrocyanide, 800g - For HCN, NaCN, KCN, and testing for iron.
K2CO3, 2.2kg - For salting out vodka ethanol. Lab video.
NaOAc trihydrate - For a lab video. Made glacial acetic from it.
30 micron Al powder - For thermite, amalgamation, and H2 generation
Benzyl alcohol, 112ml - As a reference sample for benzyl bromide -> benzyl alcohol
Salicylic acid, 500g - Saw it and wanted it. Easier than making it from ASA. Can make ASA from it as a demo. Makes trinitrophenol synth easier and faster.
Sodium bromide, 1kg - Needed it for Br2 and lab video.

Best of all I am now the proud owner of a 500ml round-bottom, single-neck 24/40 fused quartz boiling flask! With my UVC lamp, this opens many excellent possibilities.

I also picked up some various inconsequential bits of glassware - a few multi-neck flasks, stir bars, rods, a dean-stark trap, a short path condenser.

For the curious, anyone can check up on my current stock here, a link that is also located in my signature.




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[*] posted on 23-6-2015 at 14:24


I would love to get a fused quartz boiling flask! Amazon.com has them but not .ca. I hate Canadian amazon :mad:

You can use UV light to chlorinate toluene, chloroform, dimethyl carbonate, etc to make all kinds of interesting things.

Is it safe to use a quartz flask with a regular condenser for reflux?




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[*] posted on 25-6-2015 at 05:38


Two very rare and hard to obtain chemicals:

Tl2O3
TiO

Both of them allow aqueous chemistry with elements in unusual oxidation states and thallium is hard to obtain and rare anyway.




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[*] posted on 25-6-2015 at 05:59


Thallium! Very interested in what you get up to with that. Thallium cacodylate?? Or perhaps complete hair loss is trendy over there? Good luck with whatever is planned
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[*] posted on 25-6-2015 at 06:12


Quote: Originally posted by mr.crow  

You can use UV light to chlorinate toluene, chloroform, dimethyl carbonate, etc to make all kinds of interesting things.

Is it safe to use a quartz flask with a regular condenser for reflux?


Exactly! I plan to make benzyl alcohol from toluene/bromine/NaOH, as a start. I can use it to make benzotrichloiride, which can be used to make acid chlorides and thionyl chloride. Lastly, exhaustive free radical chlorination of methyl formate gives trichloromethyl chloroformate, or diphosgene, a convinient source of phosgene in the lab. It can convert amines into isocyanates, secondary amines into carbamoyl chlorides, carboxylic acids into acid chlorides, formamides into isocyanides, etc.

I have a 254nm UVC germicidal lamp that will be employed for these tasks.

I am still looking into the reflux condenser compatibility. I think I will use teflon tape as padding in the joint to help with potential thermal expansion issues.

woelen - That's impressive. Your thallium scares me. At least phosgene toxicity is not cumulative. :)

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