I think it was more like 7 days, The container was a 2000 ml RBF with a single 24/40 neck. It contained around 40gs of E with a ratio of around 1.2 I 1 E and .4 twice ran RP with approximately 8ml of H2O, added, after a brief exothermic reaction took place and it rolled over into the black liquid with bubbling subsided the cap was placed on it and taped down, It sat in the trunk of and old car just like was suggested and a week later when opened it did have the P2P smell (sweet) that you are referring too. This smell does not mean the reaction was a success, as I learned watching SWIM processing this batch. The results have been stated above. I'm not sure if some of the E was reduced but the majority was pinwheel in fashion and when burned had a sweet pseudo smell and taste. The shit was collected and reran under normal conditions with no problems.
You did however make a comment about
wishing for the sun to change colors, which had no scientific value related to the topic.
That was a comparison, you should start reading things a little closer like the fact of running this reaction before you even finished the thread.
I was informed of this through PM a week before it was posted and was asked to give it a try. It was my mistake for not posting more detail.
but honestly have you even tried this or are you just speculating?
Again go back and read again, the statement was make that I "was not" speculating about this. As a mater of fact I don't post speculation because I am just a chem hack and don't posses the ability to balance a reaction on paper much less talk about before it happens..
Kinda like that comparison of baking a cake without heat, which is also a statement which doesn't apply to the topic.
Why the reference is to cooking something in laymen terms, (comparing to something easer to understand) us simple minded guys understood that (Smile).
It's been three days sense your post, do you have anything to say about your experience with this?
The statement about getting stressed over this is what gets me.. You should have known there was a question with this method and sense there is very little success reported then why experiment unless you could afford the loss. Nothing to stress over if that were the case.
No offense taken, I still wish you the best of luck.
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swibb seems to remember somewhere that thre was once a method of making 'god speed' that was set off by the mere flash of a lightning strike. this being the case here
Will stop right here, God speed actually "lighting speed, the method of the gods" is a fiction man, it was wrote to parallel the facts of the reaction, Which in case it did just that. I should know, I'm the one who wrote the story..
I'm glad you have read it, a lot of people around have not and referencing to it is rair indeed....
Maybe there is a low heat in which would work that would produce fewer impurities as what this method was about. Right now the long reflux at the 48hour mark is your best bet for fewer side products and higher % of conversion to the target molecule.. Remember this is an experiment and posting on the like should be after you have compiled the results of your experiment, especially if a couple elder bees have made statements to the contrary of its sucess.....