The nitrides will more then likely absorb the MW energy simular to how Ammonia does. Microwaves are very close to the atomic resonance frequency of the Nitrogen atom which is the reason why the first laser ever made known as a maser was constructed using Ammonia and exciting it. It produced a coherent beam in the MW spectrum.

Glassy carbon will have the same issue, all the Microwaves will be absorbed and will never reach the reactants meaning the required temperature will rise alot higher. It will be akin to heating it with a conventional burner instead of the molecular penetration that Microwaves will have stimulating each and every bit of carbon in the mixture.

so a chinese food container wont do? damn.. how about a microwave safe dish?

i think all roads are pointing to ceramics..

what sort of carbon? like any?

dust mask filters they are loaded with it

Check out the fish store for activated charcoal.

The polarity of the molecule has alot to do with why it resonates at the Microwave frequency Salate but in the end the amount of energy imparted to the molecule has to do with if it resonates in a frequency close to that of the microwave frequency. However the polarity of the material has alot to do with its resonance frequency so if you want to get technical im sure there is formulas written to explain it mathmatically as a derivative between the dielectric constant and its polarity.

Take the Ammonia hydroxide and water experiment as an example. Both solutions are mostly water which is indeed polar yet the one with a small percentage of ammonia in solution will boil in a matter of second where water takes much longer.

The ammonia molecule readily undergoes nitrogen inversion at room temperature—that is, the nitrogen atom passes through the plane of symmetry of the three hydrogen atoms. A useful analogy is an umbrella turning itself inside out in a strong wind. The energy barrier to this inversion is 24.7 kJ/mol in ammonia, and the resonance frequency is 23.79 GHz, corresponding to microwave radiation of a wavelength of 1.260 cm. The absorption at this frequency was the first microwave spectrum to be observed.[14]

Source: http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Ammonia

14.? C. E. Cleeton and N. H. Williams, 1934 - Online version; archive. Electromagnetic Waves of 1.1 cm Wave-Length and the Absorption Spectrum of Ammonia. Received December 21, 1933. URL last accessed May 8, 2006

Yes Salat, just to confirm that, regarding toxicity of WP, it is EXTREMELY toxic, the lethal dosage is quite low...
http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/833585-overview#a0104 to quote 'as little as 15mg has caused death'

Nasty stuff, I had the rather nasty experience of being burnt by willy pete as a kid, a very small exposure, a few mm wide bit of burning WP got itself on my wrist, during distillation of the stuff, hurt, obviously, but that wasn't really much concern compared to what happened later. My arm went weak as a newborn, little coordination in my affected fingers/hand, the effects stayed localised, but damn...I couldn't hold a pen, or write with my affected hand, and it was as if all the physical strength had just drained away. Effects were limited in duration, but lasted long enough to be a real inconvenience, and pretty unnerving to boot. I forget exactly how long now, as I was just a lil'un really at the time, but at least a week, I think, a little longer, but probably not two.

i know what they are doing over there, with the blowtorch or the hot coles, have they tried this? i dont have sodium hexametaphosphate. What if this works?

H3PO4, hardware, in the section near the tiles chemicals. Like the acid washes are there ect. If you read the labels it says like 80% phosphoric acid.. Ill take another look. the clean ups are on meaning everyone is chucking rubbish out the front, there are microwaves galore on these things.

yesterday i came across a clean up i shit you not, a full photo lab.. microscopes, flasks and funnels, measuring cups and tubular measuring thingos.. tubs.. a few chems, i dug so fuckin hard begging to find a big jar of pdcl2.. the old guy had obviously died.. i was searching his stuff thinking fuck me what are the chances


what you mean u tried this?  with the microwave?? lol

I believe them copper brazing rods contain P in the form of the Copper phosphide. You will achieve nothing dissolving it in acid except poisioning yourself with phosphine.

what about the piss method cant we just do that?

Gah, hex, yes, it does form a phosphide with copper. A-you are going to have to melt the copper to add P, in manufacture, and B-yes, copper phosphide forms when heated. It releases phosphine gas on treatment with acid, and fairly sure it does with base too.

Elemental copper and elemental P=not so elemental Cu3P.

Elemental, my dear hexagon.

So to speak.

RP/I2 afaik has to get fairly hot before it produces PH3 and P2H4 (the latter is what gives the funky smell, although elemental white phos smells like garlic, although not the fishy-garlic smell of diphosphine.

Pure PH3 is apparently odourless. Most production methods (such as reaction of elemental phosphorus with strong acids, or caustic) give a mixture of PH3 and P2H4

For that matter, WP reacts with caustic bases or acids to give off phosphine gas and traces of diphosphine (which if you are lucky will spontaneously ignite, and burn it off leaving clouds of far less noxious phosphorus pentoxide (allbeit the anhydride of phosphoric acid, and the bastard-arse dessicant from hell....its capable of ripping the water from concentrated sulfuric acid!!!)

White phosphorus itself is NOTHING like the red or black allotropes, for those who have never handled it before. It is most decidedly nasty stuff, if you are not very careful. Treat with respect, and you will be fine, fuck about, and it will probably poison you. It really doesn't take much. Skin contact insufficient to burn I would think quite capable of producing toxicity, and even a very small burn, as I found out myself, is capable of causing neurological symptoms. Localised yes in my case, but this was from something perhaps 3mm accross, and rapidly removed.

Need I mention either, phossy jaw......no, best look that up for yourselves.

Just be damn careful with the stuff.

Those phosphorus alloys generally don't have very much of it in there, and are probably quite pricy. Copper phosphide apparently does not give off PH3 on contact with neutral H2O, although digestion in strong acid likely would. My advice? don't do it. Its lethal stuff, and low concentrations deaden the olfactory nerve, just like H2S does, so that in addition to its relatively mild irritant properties make for a real vicious, insidious toxin. Delayed effects by up to 3, maybe even 4 days are not impossible either. By which time, damage has been done.