[NurdRage] Make Potassium Nitrate and Sodium Nitrate from Calcium Nitrate - An Alternative to Ammonium Nitrate (www.youtube.com)
Very useful video. Nitrate salts are a foundational feedstock in amateur (and professional) chemistry.
Thalidomide - Periodic Table of Videos (www.youtube.com)
A long-time viewer of Periodic Videos grew up to study chemistry, and invented a new synthetic route for thalidomide....
NurdRage Oleum Synthesis Videos
NurdRage has published a couple videos on oleum synthesis:...
Can I lick it? (mander.xyz)
[Periodic Videos] Tungsten (new) - Periodic Table of Videos (www.youtube.com)
Boffins deem Google DeepMind's material discoveries rather shallow (www.theregister.com)
[NurdRage] Purification of Sulfuric Acid by Distillation - Revisited (www.youtube.com)
[Extractions&Ire] Making Bismuth Germanate in the microwave (www.youtube.com)
Cage escape governs photoredox reaction rates and quantum yields - Nature Chemistry (www.nature.com)
Robust Chemiresistive Behavior in Conductive Polymer/MOF Composites (arxiv.org)
Electric vehicle battery chemistry affects supply chain disruption vulnerabilities - Nature Communications (www.nature.com)
The anti-aromatic dianion and aromatic tetraanion of [18]annulene - Nature Chemistry (www.nature.com)
A programmable hybrid digital chemical information processor based on the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction - Nature Communications (www.nature.com)
[Hyperspace Pirate] Automated Ethylene Production Plant (www.youtube.com)
Cold Chemistry is Different (physics.aps.org)
Burning 50lbs of Thermite Made From 400 Soda Cans (www.youtube.com)
Cody Reeder makes thermite and has a nice “campfire”.
Dishwasher guide: salt will harm the stainless steel lining. What about salt water in stainless steel pots?
The manual for my dishwasher says to refill salt just before running a wash cycle, because if any grains of salt spill onto the stainless steel interior it will corrode. If it runs right away, no issue because the salt is quickly dissolved, diluted, and flushed....
Compound Interest: Women in Chemistry (www.compoundchem.com)
Bistability between π-diradical open-shell and closed-shell states in indeno[1,2-a]fluorene - Nature Chemistry (www.nature.com)
DeepMind's robot chef cooks up 'novel' materials with a side of controversy – Chemists dispute research claiming millions of recipes for inorganic crystalline compounds (www.theregister.com)
The World’s Strongest Acid Might be Gentle Enough to Eat (www.youtube.com)
If you don’t want to watch the entire video, it’s a Carborane acid....
Helium is an essential material for research and medical equipment, but it’s nonrenewable and difficult to recycle (theconversation.com)
Is sulfuric acid good for cleaning a boiler heat exchanger? What about ultrasonic baths?
cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/12359577...
Dehumidifying long-term harms masonry?
cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/10839711...