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The Hive => Chemicals & Equipment => Topic started by: xbnmx on November 19, 2003, 05:32:00 AM

Title: What condenser for chemical reflux?
Post by: xbnmx on November 19, 2003, 05:32:00 AM

What kind of condenser would I require in order to boil chemicals at reflux while still being able to stir them (for example lysergic acid and diethylamine)?

Title: You might try a liebig on the 2nd arm of a...
Post by: gruns on November 19, 2003, 05:34:00 AM

You might try a liebig on the 2nd arm of a claisen adapter, putting your teflon stirrer-bearing in the first one.
Be careful with that example there, I hear in some places they'll burn you as a witch for stuff like that.

Title: Condensors
Post by: Oxygen on November 19, 2003, 09:26:00 AM

I'd use the longest condenser available, preferably one designed specifically for reflux.  Also, I'd use magnetic stirring unless there is some reason not to (like iron filings as a reactant maybe?).

Title: Heat issues?
Post by: xbnmx on November 19, 2003, 08:39:00 PM

Title: Little Confused
Post by: xbnmx on November 20, 2003, 08:38:00 PM