In SWIMS dream he has a 12L reaction flask, thats 7L of headroom and will be using 700mm of ICE cold condensing (and he can add another 700mm if need be). He thinks an explosion would occur before the reaction would get out of hand. SWIM also knarls his nuggets up tight with a bean grinder which inherently slows the reaction some. MM's writeup is awesome, I think SWIM was just being paranoid again.
Thanks for the advice.
Peace.
-OC
PS. On a side note, for those that are reading this thread, here's a funny little story (well at least as I remember the dream looking back)
SWIM had just got done dreaming about some HgCl2 that would inherently be used in an amalgam. This was the first synth SWIM had ever dreamed about and was very anxious. Everything went w/o a hitch and he decided to "test the quality" so to speak. He prepared about 30g of 1" tinfoil squares, put it in a 2L flask /w 500ml of DH2O, and grabbed his spatula. He opened his bottle of HgCl2 and scooped up some on the spatula and was gonna tap the spatula and dash off a pinch into 2L EM flask. Well, he ended up dropping the whole spatula in (About 2g worth. He wasn't worried at first, about 10 minutes later it started bubbling, and they got bigger and bigger and bigger ... At this point he nearly shit his pants. There was a huge stream of gas shooting out of the top of the flask, luckily it was a widemouth flask and vapors we're trapped. He feels lucky on this part. He quickly grabbed some oven mitts, as at this point is was way, way, way too hot to touch, and put it in a bucket and covered it with a linen as to not trap the vapors but contain spittle that had started working its way up the inside edge of the glass. 20 minutes later, nothing but grey soup. This was SWIM's first and last incident as far as he is concerned. Now you know why SWIM is so overly cautious. Bee good. Bee cool. Bee safe.
PSS. Yes, SWIM was wearing the proper safety attire, safety glasses etc ... Needless to say, now, nothing more than SWIM is going to use at that moment ever leaves it's storage container.
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