Lab Notes - Testing Alternative Catalysts - September 21st
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Great work. I'm interested in how the long chain fatty acid works. The metallic stearates should all be oil-soluble. But is there some way to get the 'failures', where the sodium is finely divided, to coalesce into larger blobs?
Patrick Sweetman
2018-09-21 19:28:23 +0000 UTCLooks good. I might also make another suggestion: Linalool can be had in relatively pure form off ebay (Its used in cosmetics and as a bug repellant, as it's the main active ingredient in citronella) It's also a tertiary terpene alcohol. Even if you don't go with that in the end, it might be a good test of of wether or not its the double bonds in the alcohol itself, or the impurities in the tea tree oil (goodness knows what random terpines are in that stuff) causing the reaction to ultimately fail.
Monsyne Dragon
2018-09-21 18:15:55 +0000 UTC
