I heard your part of eastern Siberia was really civilized. The wild East. Like everywhere else: too much development, too many left out. To get water pressure, if you have a suitable rural location/situation, I suppose you'll have to build a water tower. Then an aspirator could work at your place. When you explain all this to your significant other, I'm sure she'll approve your hydrology project.
LMAO! I understand you meant it as a joke, but i still feel oblidged to clarify on this - at least once on this board (yeh, a wrong forum, i know). Perhaps the mods will forgive me for offtopic.
My part of Eastern Siberia is just as civilized as any its other part, as well as any other part of the country. We do have waterpipe system , as well as anything else you could expect to meet in a city - the only visible difference between where i live (near Baikal lake - maybee you've heard of it) and an ordinary Northern US city w/population of ~600,000 is the fact that the closest other 'big' city is situated some 1000 kilometers to the West , and in the space between them there's basically nothing. A vast sea of uninhabited space covered w/forest.
The reason SWIM doesn't have a source of running water is simply his sharing apartment w/the rest of his family (that's very common here as renting or buying a place to live is very expensive) - every single member of which hates his chemistry with passion - mainly beecause of odour - and won't tolerate its presence anywhere else than in SWIM's bedroom. In which there is no source of running water
So... guess you'll say SWIM's crazy to do chemistry where he sleeps, but
a) he constantly vents the room
b) he takes all possible precautions, including the fume cupboard that he built from whatever the Fate had sent him - not exactly a water tower, but still quite something!
Now to the chemistry. As i said, this project of yours, dear Half-a-Pint, absolutely rocks and it's been quite some time since i've been so exhilarated about something!
Say, would it bee possible, you think, to remove the residual copper salt by simply washing DMS w/water? To swim it
seems OK - even though some DMS will also dissolve. After all, it can always back-extracted (although i doubt SWIM would want to do that!)
Maybee - just in case if you plan another trial - you could check that suggestion on a coupla milliliters of your DMS? Please? Just mix it with an equal volume of water, shake until homogenous and see if the color goes to the top layer? That would mean really something for SWIM!
Another, although much less appealing, alternative would bee to dissolve DMS in benzene and wash the solution several times - that is bound to work, i think.
And -
dear Half-a-Pint - Antoncho prays you! - do a detailed write up - with all the weights in grams, temps in degrees and times in hours! That way your xperience will not only bee much more reproducible, it will also certainly immediately make it to Rhodium's page.
You didn't even tell us how much DMS you actually got!
Well, i guess i'm done for now - and i'm really looking forward to hear more from you
As ever,
Antoncho