The glass with rubber plugs is like that because it dosen't have ground glass joints but it will do much better than any improvisation.You can buy teflon plumbing tape to wrap the rubber bits in, this should protect it enough for you to do at least a few runs (hopefully?).
You can safely ignore everything to the right of where the condenser ends, you can just collect in an open flask that is sitting on ice
I don't know what youre trying to do but you will smell chlorine gas way before there's a dangerous amount in the air. it's not like youre instantly going to die.
Are you sure about that? It's used to dry ethanol in the following video; granted I suppose it's only 5% water:
No it isn't. 190 proof is what you get by normal vapor distillation. If you want that, you just buy a bottle of Everclear. If you want 100% you have to go to some effort.
Is that not what is happening in the video? The concentration went from about 95% to about 100%. Did I just phrase it poorly?
That is a strong possibility, and looking a little closer, it looks like sulfuric acid dealuminates zeolite, although I've really just taken a glance, but it seems likely it would not work with sulfuric acid. There might be other acids it works with though.
No on the foil, the only option is teflon tape for what youre trying to do.Check link below, it deals with some issues you raised.
Just boil it, man.Use even heat - something like oil bath or sand bath, use a big plastic tub to contain the whole apparatus, wear googles and a coat if you must, it’s really not that hard.Use borosylicate glass and give yourself a lot of headroom - fill up container to 25% at most.
Yes, I am sure, they work by trapping water molecules within their microstructure so picture a small percentage of a ball’s total volume being taken up by water, you would need many repeat additions, it’s just not viable.That is IF they don’t get ruined by the acid.
Oh, apparently yes. I thought you had said it only got to 190, careless reading on my part. So you could probably get this result by starting with Everclear. Possibly that's exactly what he did. He says he got 95% ethanol at the local pharmacy and some pharmacies sell liquor (like Everclear). Or possibly they actually sell it, although I've never seen 95% ethanol on sale that isn't denatured somehow.
| 1 | Obtain 150 gallons of urine (pregnant mare) |
| 2 | Heat to facilitate evaporation |
| 3 | Seal and sublimate and obtain residue |
| 4 | Grind to powder and make pill |
| 5 | Administer five to seven pills with wine or warm soup |
| 6 | Male urine used for hypogonadism, impotence, and beard growth |
| 7 | Female urine used for dysmenorrhea |
Get hydrogen gas and chlorine gas, put them under UV light for a while, and you will have hydrogen chloride gas. Not aqueous, but not solid either lol
Actually, I've been thinking about dissolving citric acid in isopropanol. It looks like citric acid is soluble but the target is not. I might want some molecular sieves, since I think 100% alcohol tends to absorb water from the atmosphere, not to mention the reaction would produce water as well.
Probably because they're taught in person by someone who has successfully done it before.
I'd never believe something like that online. Glowies can't really get rid of the legit instructions out there so they flood the market with bogus cooks that either don't work because they left something out or, in worse cases, will blow your ass up. Not sure whether the latter is glowies or some other malicious actors.
I came to the conclusion it's mostly people who have only halfway made something or got lucky. Researching a lot of explosives that have been made for decades yields a lot of people claiming they made it successfully writing out their steps that don't seem to quite add up. I've also seen things that are obviously only going to end in an explosion while you're working that I'm sure is glowies.