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Nice title eh? I was't thinking when I filmed this a did the whole procedure. Inside. I know, I know! Look at me, the hypocrite. But I was wearing ...

Styrene is prepared by thermal cracking of polystyrene plastic. On redistillation of the crude product, styrene was obtained in 67% yield as a colo...

this is how I set up for simple distillation. You can use a distillation column like a vigreux in between the still head and boiling flask to impro...

Caution

I cannot stress enough the dangers of making this compound. This can KILL you.

I will not dwell into the mechanisms of this reactions, vi...

please do this outside or in a fume hood

we will be makeing Hcl

1st add 30grams of sodium chloride to a 250ml flask

then add 70grams of sodium bi...

In this video we will be exploring some photo chemistry using silver salts to print images on cotton paper. The chemistry is relativity safe compa...

Caution

Silver Oxalate is a high explosive sensitive to heat, friction and shock. Store under water and not for periods more than 1 week.

This is...

Let's do some Organic chemistry. 2-Bromopropane, also known as isopropyl bromide and 2-propyl bromide, is the halogenated hydrocarbon with the form...

Some common compounds you can use are

-Aluminum Potassium Sulfate

-Copper(II) Sulfate

-Chromium (III) Chloride

-Nickel (II) Sulfate

-Iron (II and I...

Unboxing of my high quality 14/20 ground glassware from dr. bob on Sciencemadness.com

Kitchen chemistry from Jason - Steam distillation used to isolate essential oils from geranium. You can find the parts to do this on eBay. The es...

Got some glassware from C Tech Glass in the mail. I forgot to order a stopper for my 2 neck flask though. Crap

Easily made by easily accesible materials. Be very cautious with this completed product, as it is potentially explosive, and many states/provinces ...

In this video I will show you how to distill ethanol from ethyl rubbing alcohol.

You can buy ethyl rubbing alchol from most phamacys as the 70% va...

Synthesis of chloroform done by Brenden and John.

This synthesis came partially from ReactionFactory, hkparker, and ytmachx.

The Grignard reagent, phenylmagnesium bromide is prepared in sodium-dried ether from bromobenzene and magnesium turnings in a flame dried apparatus...

these reactions will form:

zinc: zinc chloride and hydrogen gas

aluminium: aluminium chloride and hydrogen gas

iron: iron chloride and hydrogen gas...

A montage of the fireworks I used on Guy Fawkes Day 2011. Some are home made others purchased at The Warehouse (NZ Store)

This was one fun day! :D...

The haloform reaction is used to prepare chloroform in a simple procedure. The resulting crude product is dried, distilled, and stabilized, giving ...