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budullewraagh

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  1. if the reactants are in the same quantity, you should have the same products. it just takes a little longer for the aqueous reactants to reach one another. when they do, they react. the more dilute a solution the more time this takes, but eventually they do reach one another.
  2. yes, i can think of many, many things you could do at home, some easier than others, some less dangerous than others. what sort of reactions are you thinking of doing? organic? inorganic? what resources do you have available? (ie: chemicals, glassware, etc).
  3. um, ok. how much money do you really want to spend? it's expensive. try sigma aldrich: http://www.sigmaaldrich.com
  4. budullewraagh

    pH

    i think that applies in all cases. does it not?
  5. i luckily had my grandparents, who legally adopted me a few years ago. my father is now 79 and my mother 73, but they still are very effective parents, both wise and still very active. my current father was quite a figure. as a young kid he joined a sort of gang among the local kids. they weren't a bad gang particularly bad though; they were the kind of people who would see the ice truck delivering to people and would would raid it, breaking off a small piece to cool off in the summer. the police hired a beast of a man to try to catch my dad and his friends, but he was never quite fast enough. he was drafted to fight in the south pacific in the second world war when he was 17 (yes i know that wasn't legal but hey, we did a lot of other illegal things as well) and fought at okinawa. when he came back, he got engaged 8 times before he found my mother. some of his fiancees broke up with him, some he broke up with himself. he then went to college and got his PhD, then went into accounting. he didn't like this so he went into teaching. at some point he worked with the world's strongest man, jack walsh, for a few years. he taught high school and college economics and coached many sports teams, including the football team, which he scrimmaged with, often without padding or a helmet. he eventually retired. 2 years later i chose to live with he and my grandmother, and now he has become a great father. he currently writes books in his spare time. my mother is probably the most selfless person i have ever met. hands down. she has a less exciting history to talk about, but simply put, she is very generous and an overall amazing person.
  6. you need not translate my answers. you appear to be ineffective in doing so
  7. reaction rates and equilibrium? thats kinetics. 1. already answered as far as i wish to do so 2. self explainatory 3. different boiling points at various pressures
  8. wow, you really dont know kinetics. this fractional distillation would require pressures beyond those potentially achievable with commonly found household items.
  9. synthesis and decomposition are in equilibrium. synthesis yields the product, which happens to be in gasous state. makes sense.
  10. you misinterpret as you often do. you should learn to make a conscious effort to understand someone's ideas even if you do not agree with them. decomposition of alkali chlorates and perchlorates yields more gas than vaporizing them. thus, they will not decompose and will rather just vaporize. according to le chatlier's principles, the reaction that produces the least moles of gas will be favored
  11. you do not understand le chatlier's principles then. ask yourself: how many moles of gas does potassium chlorate produce on decomposition and how many moles of gas does potassium perchlorate produce on decomposition? how many moles of gas do both of these produce when evaporated?
  12. think of le chatlier's principles. significant pressure will prevent the chlorate and perchlorate from decomposing. now, think of this: we have our potassium chlorate and potassium perchlorate. if we were to fractionally crystallize it, there would be contaminants, ie there would be perchlorate in the chlorate and chlorate in the perchlorate. if we were to distill them instead, one would evaporate before the other, assuming we did not have a lump with a minimal surface area to volume ratio. then we would remove our product and heat to a greater temperature
  13. either way works, fractionally distilling or crystallizing. the former is of course more difficult to do than the latter, but more effective
  14. fractionally distill it. obtain crystallized product and remove
  15. ok i have NO clue what you're talking about. acetanilide has no bromine in it. you have acetanilide reacting with.....nothing it appears so no you're totally wrong because bromine isnt in any of the reactants. the molecular mass of hydrogen bromide is not 82. what problem is this you are referring to?
  16. my father killed my mother and my 10 year old brother before killing himself. this was when i was 3. my life was spared because i was too young to die
  17. i must say that a mixture containing 90% 18M H2SO4 and 10% other solutes/suspensions would not be sold with such little labelling as you are describing. people do not like oleum. there should be warnings all over saying "warning: this product contains free oleum and fumes oleum" there should be a warning saying "warning: this product will corrode your hand off in minutes" theres hould be a warning saying "warning: this product is an oxidizing agent as well as a dehydrating agent. it will start fires with certain organic matter and will react vigorously with reducing agents." such a product would be absurdly excessive. you don't need too strong of an acid to unclog drains and if you need something strong you can use the NaOH/H2O2 mixture that is commonly stored...18M sulfuric acid is just overall too dangerous to sell to the public. yes, i know some chem suppliers sell 18M sulfuric acid to the public and thats how i got my 2 liters of it, but that's different
  18. what is "this stuff"? we're not interested in teaching kids how to make bombs
  19. i agree with jdurg. it's easier to reduce 3 Fe+3 cations to Fe+2 than one Fe+3 to Fe. (think reduction potentials) in acidic solution (pH=0). Fe+3 --(0.771)--> Fe+2 Fe+2 --(-0.44)--> Fe in alkaline solution (pH=14) FeO2- --(-0.69)--> HFeO2- HFeO2- --(-0.8)--> Fe
  20. the roebic is 90% DILUTED sulfuric acid, meaning there is 90% sulfuric+water and 10% other things. this makes much more sense
  21. popular for meth labs? i'd think a birch reduction to be significantly easier then RP/HI considering material availability. people are so paranoid i'd like to find that 95% sulfuric somewhere. do you happen to know any brand names?
  22. radiohead is high quality
  23. just to follow that up, i have never seen battery acid sold anywhere, although i do live in an area where oxidizers in general are not sold. as well i have never seen sulfuric acid sold as a drain cleaner, although i have heard it has been used as such. be very careful when boiling sulfuric acid. its corrosiveness increases significantly under high temperatures. when boiling it at high concentrations you have a variety of dangers; the oleum fuming out as well as bubbles. just one bubble can result in quite a burn. have a bucket of water with you at all times, lest you corrode your hand off i am quite positive that it is not sold commercially at 95%. at this concentration it fumes oleum, acts as an oxidizing agent, causing fires on contact with organic matter, and is overall really corrosive. i believe it is sold as a cleaning agent at 20% or so.
  24. perhaps, although one cannot be certain. last i checked, if a news source made a mistake in a report that was detrimental to the image of the US government, the one who made the mistake was crucified and boiled in oil
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