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Nashbar
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Re: Home Laboratory [Re: Nashbar]
#5647298 - 05/18/06 06:32 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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and you should add a stirrer/hot plate
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Re: Home Laboratory [Re: Konnrade]
#5647318 - 05/18/06 06:38 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Looks like a nice little setup. However you might want to splurge and get yourself a nice triple beam, that scale you've got there isn't the greatest.
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Re: Home Laboratory [Re: Nashbar]
#5648169 - 05/18/06 10:34 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Nashbar said: and you should add a stirrer/hot plate
Aha! Now I remember. That's exactly what I was going to buy next, a magnetic stirrer that's also a hotplate.
Today I tried making a simple still from one of the glass tubes, just for shits and giggles. My puny alcohol lamp isn't very good at bringing a 500mL flask of water to a boil 
It still looks cool to have a flask set up as a retort, though. 
I'm not sure what I'll be using everything for yet, but I do know I'll eventually use all of it.
I'm thinking my first task might be isolating some morphine from opium. That could be fun 
Most likely though I'll just be using the florence flask to dissolve some opium in warm water and then pour it through a nice fine peice of filter paper to clean the junk out of it.
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Re: Home Laboratory [Re: Konnrade]
#5648242 - 05/18/06 10:45 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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If your looking for new one I found a great place, seems to be the cheapest and at a great quality,

Though that is not a hot plate.
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That looks nice 
But I'll have to buy used, and I'd prefer one that was also a hotplate. Used is a must, though... Money is a bit tight for me until I'm steadily employed. Although... that should happen within a few weeks.
Hrm, the ideas are brimming
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Re: Home Laboratory [Re: Konnrade]
#5648552 - 05/19/06 12:07 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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buy an organic chem. book and study
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Re: Home Laboratory [Re: ebass]
#5648568 - 05/19/06 12:11 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Meh, I'll get there eventually. I may study what I can find over the summer, but O-chem is something I should cover in my second year.
I have a feeling that this chem major is going to take it's toll on my lifespan though, just going over the requirements to transfer to a UC or Cal State university to finish up my BS was very intimidating. Especially considering the calculus I need. I fucking hate calculus. I hate it with a burning passion that many men rarely feel.
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Re: Home Laboratory [Re: Konnrade]
#5649568 - 05/19/06 10:05 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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nice setup, my separation funnel is so much bigger than yours though! (1 liter)
I bought a distillation setup too, which now I wish I would've bought a Soxhlet extractor or a reflux condensor
and yeah, I don't really know what to do with the stuff either! LOL!
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Re: Home Laboratory [Re: dr0mni]
#5651023 - 05/19/06 05:36 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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I feel compelled to find things to do with this stuff... it's a bit irksome really. I have the equipment but nothing to do with it.
I bent a glass tube and made a tiny condenser yesterday. Then I distilled some water just for shits and giggles. 
*edit*
And here's an image of those shits and giggles 
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durban_poison
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Re: Home Laboratory [Re: Konnrade]
#5653501 - 05/20/06 02:22 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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distilled water is some good drinkin. prevents bladder and kidney stones
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It's also good to use in the coffee and espresso machines you see in the background, it keeps them from getting nasty hard water deposits.
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