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If you concentrate (dehydrate) acetic acid you will simply have concentrated acetic acid, or glacial acetic acid. Its impossible to make acetic anhydride from acetic acid. They are two different chemicals, not simply a diluted solution.

That is so dilute its not worth your time trying to concentrate it. Use it for the intended purpose. Go to a hardware store and buy yourself some 31.45 % HCl. Its only 5-8$ a gallon. You can even get it in the pool supply section too. Its Muriatic acid. Its a great general cleaner and excellent cleaning rust off of iron and steel.

From what I have read this is my idea. Of course this is a little off-topic. A change in speed, or a change in gravity can affect time. Our time clicks by as it does on earth because of the gravity field we are in, and the earths spin, our revolution around the sun, the suns revolutions around the milky way, the milky ways revolutions around the local group, and the local group around a larger group, and maybe that larger group around the center of mass of the universe. All of those motions add up, perhaps on another planet in another galaxy, time could move along alot faster, or slower then ours does. Simply because they are moving at an incredibly different speed then us. The tiny amount of change a different amount of gravity would provide could almost be negligible.

The "evaporation" of a black hole is caused by hawking radiation. Particle pairs are constantly being created close to horizon of the black hole. They are created as a particle-antiparticle pair and they quickly annihilate each other. At the eventhorizon of a black hole, one can fall in before the annihilation can happen, in which case the other one escapes as Hawking radiation. This effect is supposed to happen much faster in a smaller hole then a larger one. Also this is only a therory. A black hole will never release energy/matter, or any type of radiation because of its spin. This will be impossible because the escape velocity is higher then the speed of light. No matter or radiation can go faster then C. Thus nothing escapes. Hawking radiation is different because the matter is created outside the event horizon. This particle has the ability to escape. The particle was formed from energy, and energy is matter, so a "piece" of matter was removed from the black hole.

Ok I will try that out then! Thanks alot! I will just decant the solution and dry it, as I don't have anything finer then coffee filters right now. All my good filter papers have been used. I will make a trial batch of chlorate, and if all goes well I will try for 454 grams.

Thanks for the tip on the sulfur, I didn't think about that. Maybe I should try to purify it. I don't want to convert to the nitrate first, and purify as woelen posted above. Any other Ideas? I really do not want to go to the perchlorate, mainly because of a lack of platnium, and lead dioxide. I could make the lead dioxide anode but I'd rather stick to the chlorate if I can purify the carbonate. And yes I will be using new carbon sticks. I can't wait to see the color produced by the chlorate!! Barium chloride solubility 36 grams / 100 ml Barium chlorate solubility 27.4 grams / 100 ml It seems Ba(ClO4)2 is in the form of a hydrate, Ba(ClO4)2 · xH2O. You could make it anhydrous, but if used if fireworks, you would have to use a non-aqueous binder system. Looks like I want the chlorate for sure.

YT2095, You can get very cheap barium and strontium salts at pottery and ceramic suppliers. These are usually not as pure as other sources, but they work very well and are very cheap. They also have alot of other very interesting and useful chemicals. The link below is a supplier in the US, just for reference, as I see your location is not in the US. But perhaps other US members could use it. http://clayartcenter.net/store/customer/home.php?cat=680&page=17 I think I just may try the carbonate reaction with HCl, followed by a electrolosis with 5 volts at 20 amps. I use carbon rods as electrodes when making KClO3, does anyone know if carbon rods will work well for the barium salt? Can I just follow the same procedure for KClO3, on BaClO3? Thanks,