• @IGuessThisIsForNSFW
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    24 hours ago

    I am not a chemist, but it was my understanding that HCl isn’t a hexane. Are we just reusing glassware without removing the label, or is HCl actually a hexane?

    • @[email protected]OP
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      14 hours ago

      Hexane is just a solvent. In that solvent we had dissolved a highly reactive chemical that decomposes to HCl when mixed with water. The reaction is highly exothermic and HCl is also volatile. Hence that plume that you are seeing is pure HCl fumes.

  • Tar_Alcaran
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    1 day ago

    Ahhh, killing everyone in the room just so Sigma doesn’t get another 200 bucks from you.

    Or is this not a vain attempt at cleaning it?

  • Hellfire103
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    161 day ago

    The same will happen with chlorobromohexane, which is what appears to be in the flask.

    • @[email protected]
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      101 day ago

      That aint it chief. Judging by context and looks that flask is being cleaned with something that i wouldn’t use

      • @[email protected]
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        111 day ago

        Well, it’s what is on the label.

        But given the overall context, I wouldn’t expect the label to reflect what is actually there either.

        • @[email protected]
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          421 hours ago

          It’s using (B)oron though, not (Br)omine.

          The thing though, is that boron would normally be written before chlorine. So, I would guess what is written is just the reagents and not the final product. Maybe boron trichloride? I haven’t taken a chem class in 15 years, so I may be a bit out of touch though.

          Also, what looks to be trichloride (Cl[3]) could also be carbon triiodide, if the person didn’t use serifs for the “I”. Though, both don’t really exist outside of reactions AFIK. The handwriting for subscripted “3” also makes it look like a lowercase “I” making it carbon and lithium. But again, a chemical with just a single carbon and lithium atom doesn’t really exist either.

  • [email protected]
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    91 day ago

    “Mrs Krinkle, why is Mrs Cigarette out?”

    “There was an unfortunate accident in her class involving hydrochloric acid, so she was sent home for the week.”

    “…But doesn’t she teach band?”