Lab notes - Purified Tea Tree Oil Experiments for Making Sodium
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Would Urushibara Nickel work?
2018-10-21 01:31:19 +0000 UTCLooking forward to the hydrogenation reaction. I managed to get some palladium on carbon for cheap if you want I can send you a bottle.
2018-10-14 22:08:07 +0000 UTCIt isn't consumed by the sodium production reaction, it probably just decomposes in the presence of side products at elevated temperatures.
2018-10-14 22:06:33 +0000 UTCWould vacuum distillation allow you to use a full column and get better separation?
Zach Heilman
2018-10-14 01:09:56 +0000 UTCThis is awesome, keep turning the crank - we appreciate it. A nit: Are you still counting the alcohol as a catalyst if it is indeed consumed?
Jeff Evarts
2018-10-13 23:14:09 +0000 UTCi actually did try it, but it didn't seem to work. Granted, i didn't try very hard, i figure if i need to put in MORE effort than distilling tea tree oil then it's not worth it. (as that effort is better spent just with tea tree oil.)
NurdRage
2018-10-13 21:49:43 +0000 UTCrequires far too high a temperature. So i probably won't attempt it.
NurdRage
2018-10-13 21:48:23 +0000 UTCWould hydrating rather than hydrogenating be easier? It would give a dual tertiary alcohol which might make the precipitation problem worse though.
Twizzy
2018-10-13 21:43:59 +0000 UTCππ
Michael Aichlmayr
2018-10-13 20:51:53 +0000 UTC
