Chemistry

Some notes on advanced chlorate and perchlorate electrosynthesis.

Maybe a 3D printable acoustic cold trap?

Some design notes on DIY microreactors.

Tweaking the open source designs of syringe pumps for some microreactor tests.

Building a general purpose recirculating cooler for the lab.

Hydrogen torch and atomic hydrogen welding.

Ammonia and nitric acid from ammonium nitrate.

Making nitroparaffins by vapor phase nitration.

Designing a personal carbon dioxide scrubber.

Brewing the easy way with ozone sterilization.

Making sodium metal without using exotic chemicals, solvents, or apparatus.

A high temperature, insulating refractory exclusively from the hardware store at one-tenth the cost of and better than commercial firebricks or cer...

Dissolving, separating, purifying precious metals from bulk materials in a single pot with recyclable and non-toxic chemicals.

Producing benzaldehyde for the amateur chemist.

Atmospheric nitrogen fixation for the amateur using plasma.

Oxidation/dehydrogenation of primary alcohols using catalysts to form their corresponding aldehydes.

A collection of syntheses.

A few notes on synthesizing L-Carnitine Zinc: a pharmaceutical? for protecting the gut. Possible use in the anti-hangover project.

Vaporized hydrogen peroxide (VHP) can be used as a bulk disinfectant. VHP leaves no toxic residue and construction of a crude vaporizer can be acco...

Home concentration of hydrogen peroxide by evaporation.

Methylene Blue is a rare nootropic. I experimented with it for a while but ultimately stopped due to its MAO activity. Perhaps I will resurrect thi...

An example of purification by recrystallization using potassium chlorate.

Making chlorates with electrochemistry is fairly easy. Perchlorates are quite a bit more troubling. Unless, of course, you just heat your chlorates...