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(SuperAssman: "Re: Hydriodic Acid", Stimulants) boastfully concluded by betting both his gonads that HI could not be made from NaI or KI with H3PO4. (Boy, is he gonna feel funny walking around without any balls).Dry adding the extra water either dropwise during the distillation,
What Uemura wants to contribute is his observation, when he wanted to prepare HBr from KBr and 100% H3PO4 nothing happened. So he decided to add dropwise water and ...
With each drop of water into the hot KBr/H3PO4 mix a push of a white cloud of equous HBr went thru the condenser and Uemura got in the end an almost saturated HBr acid. He never succeeded to get waterfree HBr out of the rxn mix. This should work for HI as well he thinks.