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Chemistry of a proposed Capsaicin extract [closed]
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I’d like to make an extract of capsaicin using the following ingredients: Capsicum powder, Fractionated coconut MCT oil, apple cider vinegar, and saline. The idea is for the capsaicin to ...
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Can I extract solid sugar from any fruit juice at home?
The goal here is to isolate the sugar from all other compounds in the juice. In this case, I'm using apple juice and grape juice. The sugar does not need to be edible, as it is being used to make r-...
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How do i get acetic acid from vinegar?
I'm trying to improve my rocket project, but, since the competition only allows the use of vinegar and sodium bicarbonate as its fuel, I had an idea of using the vinegar in a different way. My plan ...
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Using drip extraction, how much caffeine is extracted from coffee as a function of the amount of water used?
When using a drip coffee maker, there are basically two choices we make: the amount of water and the amount of coffee grounds.
If we use the same amount of coffee grounds but double the water, how ...
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Phosphate extraction from sewage
I read that phosphate reserves will exhaust in coming years wiki, why don't we extract it from sewage , is it really that difficult to extract phosphate ?
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Methods to extract sucrose from tea after it's been stirred in?
Sugar is often labelled "white poison" now-a-days and a lot of negative health consequences happen due to increased sugar consumption.
Keeping this in mind, if I were handed a cup of tea (with sugar ...
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When recovering Copper from Copper Chloride via Aluminum, why can't we use Sodium instead to make Sodium Chloride?
About a week ago in my Middle School Science Class, we used an aluminum washer and some copper chloride, which we had gotten from creating circuit boards, in a closed system to recover the copper (if ...
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What is ideal water hardness for brewing coffee?
While procrastinatingworking, I am wondering whether it is optimal to use softened (or deionized) water for brewing coffee, rather than tap water which is in my area rather hard.
My gut feeling is ...
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Water extraction of ethanol from petrol
We have now 10% ethanol mixed petrol. Seller says that if this petrol comes in contact even 10 ml of water, all ethanol which is mixed in the petrol will be extracted by water, is it true?
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CO2 removal from mushroom growing tent
I'm trying to grow oyster mushrooms that like high temperatures. They look great in an indoor terrarium, and can eventually yield several tasty meals :)
However oyster mushrooms are hard to grow ...
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