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acetone isnt expensive.

NH4Cl too

Al will deteriorate pretty fast

bleach + Hcl is the best way- u need very small amounts of each to make reasonably large amounts of Cl, plus its easy

give them a fever

id assume u could react it with an acid- that is if the europium oxide bacome a base in water.

i suppose you could do it much easily with those glow-in-the-dark inks and paints

oh sorry i mis-read it

and is probly alot cheaper

then how do they ignite if they are pre-filled? some kind of pin u pull?

i wouldnt say thats fully correct. things like O2, H2O, CH4, are not acids or bases- but are they salts? i wouldnt say so. so that textbook must be really unspecific or really old.

i kno. well he likes it i think. with his phd hes pretty high up in the company. made a few discoveries. i dont know if you guys know what they are, but he designs DNA probes. what they are are like markers that flouresce i beleive when they find a certain DNA or something. He says they can be used in like criminal cases where they can be used to find/identify certain dna. He invented the "eclipse" probes wich like saved his company. Im sure that there is allllloott of things you can do in the biochem field other than probes.

what is sodium methoxide, besides the formula NaCH3O? its characteristics and usues, etc

a generator is just a motor that you spin. take an electric motor, spin it like with your hands, and measure the voltage coming from the electrodes.

ping pong balls are made out of celluloid. From what i hear its like most part nitrocellulose or something. It depends on what oxidizers would be hypergols with celluloid.

once u find out the hard way, usually u understand it better.

r u trying to collect it from the ampule or are you trying to collect it in the ampule?

wat cooould it be?

maybe h2o2 or hno3

probably an oxidizer of some sort

yes

i read about your little synth/mishap. I was thinking about making phosphoric acid like u did, just before the actual WP. does anyone know any experiments or synths someone (me) could do using phosporic acid, or would it be more of a new addition to the collection?

hopefully the dissolution wont screw up the glowing additive

it depends on how fast the glass crystals expand. If u have a more rounded jar it will have less tendency to crack, but if the jar has a flat bottom, the crystals will morph/expand at different rates causing the glass to crack. ALso, evenly heating glass can help prevent cracking.

great explanation mayham, but ur making it sound like synthesizing Ag2C2! its really not that bad, minute amounts of chlorine are produced. Even if you can smell it, that doesnt mean dangerous concentrations are in the air, since Cl2 is easily picked up by the nose. Also, the NaOH created isnt bad eaither. The quantities will be very minute, and too minute to hurt the skin (only the eyes). and mayhem, correct me if im wrong, but im guessing youve never electrolyzed water bfore.