You enjoy this too much
If one is using P,P tanks and doing a fast reaction, it becomes apparent that most of the iodine escapes from the reactin flask and passes doen the hose to be trapped in the water.
This water after 4 oz or so is red and thick with iodine & HI
If one were to recover the Iodine after a reaction most of it cones from the tanks ans a snaller amout is recovered from the wastes generated in the reaction flask,
The hhose is always stained red on the inside whether you do a fast or slow reaction.
Even in a reflux reaction with a long condensor Iodine is escaping, the proper technique is to bring a hose off the top of the condenser, attach it io a funnel and invert the funnel letting the wide end rest in a tray with a few inches of water, this captures the gasses enitted from the reflux.
The way most reactions are rin from the stoicochemistry
Red P is added in abundance and a big mud pie of it sits in the flask.
It is common knowledge that the I is producing the driving force of the reaction ,
It is the fuel the Red P is like the spark plug ,
Now I doubt that Mnky boy has any H3PO4 available if he did he would have used it.
He wants to be certain ther the Ephed is reduced to the iodate and changed to meth m there is a theory out that hther pills are never cleaned well enough any more , the 10 grams of E is more like 6 grams of E and the rest is either a sulferouds compound ar a spiral macromolwcule like povidone that traps E and I. Silfer is a inhibitor of iodine in this reaction, it will shut a reactionm down
So because of the dirty E
THe certain losses of I
and from prior experience ,
adding a little I2 will refresh the reaction fuel and allow it to complete, immediately upon adding the Iw it begins to react it is visibly apparent.
Now I hsve no problem with H3PO4, but I have to stick with what I know so until I actually use the H3PO4 , I am not qualified to reccommend it, suppose something happened that Mnkboy did not understand, If I can't ecplain what he needs to do I look like a fool, and my credibility is ahot, and mnkyboy could lose the reaction or get hurt You see I only advise bees on actual knowledge about, I don't speak from Knowledge of aquaintence.
that rule seems best from emnarressment.
So although I will try new things on my own , I don't send a bee into the trenches first.
The additional I2 was needed in his reaction did you note the temperature he was running at 91 F
not C but 91 F that is around 33 C
The phospjourous is famose for changing its activity in quantum leaps
and not in a linear fashion , but in sudden stages the next major excitation for the phos is around 110 F, then at 150 F, 189 F .
His chances of increasing the heat to any of those levels is slim
the theory is that heaty is ther culprit in creating toxins.
Six more hours on a dryside reaction is going to make it very dry m so a little water is efficatious, and a litrtlw \e iodine will definately drive the reaction to the right.
Now C'mon you know this stuff, don't you? Making me explain it when I need to get on with the Cosmic Power thing. It is difficult to type that much, for me it is anyway, two years ago I had a reaction , to some bad antibiotics , and it left me almost totally blind Stevens Johmsons Syndrome you can look it uo on the web
Molecule:
meth ("c1(ccccc1)CCC[NH2+]C ")