Questions tagged [experimental-chemistry]
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Synthesis of 1-naphthaleneacetic acid: Methods
I am trying to synthesizing 1-naphthaleneacetic acid from naphthalene and monochloroacetic acid. I found some patents and papers, and I have tried to synthesis but the yield is low. I used iron powder ...
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How to quantify the concentration of sodium nitrate leftover from eutrophication through titration?
In my experiment, I am trying to quantify the nitrate absorption by duckweed. I need a titration method to measure the left over nitrate levels in the solution. However, this is to be done in a school ...
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What is the density of solid methane at atmospheric pressure?
I'm curious about the density of solid methane since it might be slightly more energy dense than liquid natural gas. The materials project computes the density to be 0.433 g/cm3 which is higher than ...
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What reaction could rubidium undergo in a vacuumed chamber with Macor ceramic and glass?
In the center of the chamber on the photo below you can see the hexagonally-shaped Macor glass-ceramic consisting of
Silicon dioxide $\ce{SiO2}~46\%$
Magnesium oxide $\ce{MgO}~17\%$
Aluminum oxide $\...
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Why is the Molar mass of CO2 different than the weight of the sum of its particles?
The Molar mass of CO2 is stated to be 44.009 grams per mol
But in a calculation of the weight of each atom's particles((Electrons,Protons,Neutrons) times Avogadro's constant
I get 44.36 grams per mol
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Is it safe to use borosilicate lab glass as an autoclave?
I'm attempting to do a one-pot synthesis that requires autoclaving the chemical mixture. I thought this process would be greatly simplified by using the lab glass itself as the autoclave in situ ...
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Testing whether an unknown powder is wheat gluten (at home)?
Last week, I ordered wheat gluten to make seitan. I received some powder and attempted a recipe, which mixes 100g of water with 100g of gluten to form a sticky dough. However in my case, I only got a ...
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Can we use silver nitrate to distinguish between chloride and carbonate salts?
Initially, we are given a solution containing two salts, they can be either carbonate or chloride salts (we do not know their composition initially).
Generally, $\ce{AgNO3}$ is used as a confirmatory ...
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Disposal of Silver Halides dissolved in Ammonium Hydroxide
I was reading the Lab Manual for Chemistry prepared by the NCERT . While going through the the test for Chloride ions (pg 88) I came across the following Hazard Warning :
The solution obtained after
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NMR pulse sequence for precise measurements of coupling constants?
The usual procedure for measuring $J$ coupling constants in NMR is to record a 1D spectrum and estimate the constant from the differences of peak frequencies. Fitting the spectrum to a lineshape ...
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Cooling a 100°C beaker in cold water
In my nanoparticle synthesis, I need to cool a beaker with boiling solution (50mL beaker) rapidly to arrest a reaction at a specific size of nanoparticle. Letting the hot beaker cool passively is too ...
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How to avoid side reactions when making boronic esters (Homocoupling, Hydrogen specie)?
I have been working with suzuki couplings using substituted naphtalenes (typically 2-bromo-7-R-naphtalene) for a while now, and making the boronic specie is always a pain.
I can't make the boronic ...
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What is the accuracy of medical syringes?
I am interested in both low and high volume syringes.
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Do pipettes always outclass glass syringes?
I was previously working in a lab preparing lots of samples for gas chromatography that exclusively used glass pipettes and was able to get really high precision between replicates. Now I'm working on ...
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Will a nitro aryl resist an halogen exchange using nBuLi?
I would like to boronate 2-bromo-6-nitro-naphtalene using nBuLi and quenching with 2-Isopropoxy-4,4,5,5-tetramethyl-1,3,2-dioxaborolane. Since there is no alpha proton to the nitro, and that the nitro ...
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