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I had a choice smoke of S.A bud today, so things
shouldn;t get so crayyyy-zzeeeeee,.
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For Placeebo, and the Hive Collective,.
Thankyou Lugh for your post, It is a key in the production
and suucess of clandestine manufacter of formic acid,.
Here is how I First ran the reaction,.
200 grams of Oxalic Acid (hardware store) is funneled
into a standard Fruit juice bottle, 3cm diameter neck, volume 1 litre,(preferably clear here please),
Then 350ml of unheated glycerol is poured in,
A large 5 litre pot was filled with oil,
placed on the stove and is slowly heated.
The fruit Juice bottle is inserted in the middle of the heating pot of oil, (use a little caution here, the bottle will not explode if heated uniformly and foil is used around the upper top neck area,.)- and the exploding point is usually the lower bottom floor of the bottle. where the chance of thermal expansion is the greatest,.
Keep this covered by all means,.
A length of 1 metre of borosilicate tubing 1cm diameter, 1.5mm wall thickness,(You could use copper here I think*!)
I base this on Cuso4 as a good dehydrater,.
I made a bend in it with one of those micro oxy/propane burners that cost about $60.AUS from hardware stores,. they're so cool!
The secret to making a good bend is tho stopper one of the ends, and blow and even pressure on the other, as you are making the bend, and you fuck it up or are about to, you can reheat the area , and blow it out,.
Use constant rotation, of the tube or the burner, to give uniform heat. Glass can be bought from local suppliers in every state,. About $12.00 for a metre of this stuff,
When you get the hang of this, you can make whatever glass you want,- it's a passion all to itself,.
All scientific glassblowing in essence is the performing of a few simple techniques, to achieve many different joints, bends and bulbs, I recommed this to anyone, there are some good book, and online sites, the theorty is very simple, and if you aer prepared to make a few mistakes,
your laughing,.
Ingredients were thouroughly swirled to mix ingredients into a honey like mixture,.
Heated bath slowly, until you could see the
efferefence begin, around 110-114, like it says,.
Cool,- increased the heating to the point where
the condesation formed just over the lip of the glass bend of the air condensor and held tempereature there, and carefuilly watch for the end of the efference,.Slowly a putrid smelling clear liquid came over at about one to two drop per second,.(The tube ran down to the floor into an ordinary jar,.)
Where ~120ml of apparently formic acid remained in the flarsk(correct spelling)
The pot was taken of the heat, the level marked on the fruit bottle with a texture.
Another 200 gms oxalic was added to the flask,
and the pot brought to temperature again, where effernece
again commenced, a further 125ml of returned,.
A total of ~245 ml were obtained in less than 3 hours,
So to answer your question, why not,.
I also did this rection in a petrol can with a copper tube, outside with a mini gas burner,.
I contemplated doing this in a plastic thick walled vessel, in a warm water bath, with a household vacuum cleaner,.
The vacuum cleaer would have had two inline air filters, one a Sodium Hydroxide bong, the other a water bong.
The reation is pretty much tame, but i don't recommend doing like me unless you have to,
Have it niocerly set up so you can add more oxalic easily
and have it completely seled because the reaction really stinks,.
Chromic- peroxlaic, start a new thread for that please, straight away,
I hope this is enough for you all
Goodluck
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