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haha yeah northeastern united states!

exactly. works a charm

i suppose that could work. a simple way of doing it would be to just boil some water in a container with a makeshift top that filters all the gas evolved into a tube leading to another sealed beaker surrounded with ice

a hotplate and a bunch of chems/labware. got them already:)

i wouldnt agree actually. high explosives arent good for melting ice. im thinking of making a nice sucrose/potassium chlorate torch tho ;p

you can also dissolve a bunch of salt in water and when it precipitates you will find that it is saturated

yeah, not quite cost effective however

then i was right. the lithium cations go to the axons in nerve cells and aid in the whole K+/Na+ diffusion process

hemoglobin is a protein with an Fe+3 ligand. it's not going to blow up nomatter what you do to it.

haha yeah i need to fix that over the weekend. poor dr lang... i'll be around during the holidays

i take it the lithium goes straight to the axons?

i think i'll make mine look just a bit better on the weekend when i actually have some time

i believe thats the carbonate salt of lithium that is used as an anti-depressant. the metal wouldnt be...healthy if pure. i was referring to using lithium in birch reductions

nah, not really

probably. if it feels slippery you have your hydroxide

i'll probably be working with tribromides and manganates and working on syntheses for ferrates and ferrites

really? where? im not a kewl:\

just dont do anything like K and HCl:\

yeah now dr lang has a really poorly photoshopped santa hat. woot.

almost as cool as dissolving polystyrene in acetone

yeah, there are a few things; manganese dioxide, black carbon and various electrolytes, namely KOH

yeah, i have reservations on the chlorate/perchlorate on because of certain formation of chlorine oxides. the sodium peroxide method scares me, quite frankly. the nitrate method and the hypochlorite/hydroxide method don't produce great yields, unfortunately.

it will also attack most anything you put it in

it's really, really volatile. the vapor pressure is through the roof

anyone here have an idea of the feasibility of these reactions?