Well, SWIM did some experimentation and thought he'd mention the results here. 300ml 30% hydrogen peroxide was added to 140g paraformaldehyde(blue dye and all, big mistake. it is extremely adviseable to at least wash some of the dye off with cold water washes. It would be even better to wash it clean with cold water/methanol mixture.) the flask was hooked up with a 600mm reflux condensor, even though it didn't need one. the mixture was heated, and when it got to around 70C it started foaming up the dye and putting off heat of it's own. this ran along for about 90 minutes, when it finally subsided. There was about 40g of residual paraformaldehyde left in the flask which was filtered out, and then the reaction contents were distilled. They should have been fractionally distilled, but swim didn't have the equipment to do so at the time. After the flask foamed a bit more and settled down, ~250ml of liquid with a density of 1.08 was collected that smelled similar to vinegar, but not like vinegar, tested ph of 1 with litmus. SWIM was wondering if there is a way to distill the 76% azeotrope of formic acid without a fractionating column, but doubts there is.
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