Monday is my day off. I say so, thus so mote it be.
Because I've been working since 11am two days ago, and I only got most done just before 8 in the morning today. Alternatively roasting me nackers orff slaving over a hot ether still, a cryo trap keeping my reaction about -30'C the whole thing slobbering diethylene glycol from the bottom whilst the business end belched ammonia and ammoniacal noxious fumes. Oh and I accidentally vaporised a ton of congealed bacon grease in the grill tray drying product and vapping off last dribbles of solvent. That, and with caustic soda accidentally burnt a hole in the chopping board. OOpsie.
BUT! But! BUT!!!! I got paid! whooohoooo! dry ice/liquid nitrogen condenser for meeeeeee! *would do a little happy dance if he didn't have a sep funnel full of naptha and severely caustic aqueous layer*
Time to spend some £££ on lovely shiny new lab glass and some much wanted reagents. I could really do with a powder addition funnel too, they are only a few dollars on ebay. I also want not one but TWO new digital PH pens, a backup mercury thermometer and a second digital IR pistol grip one. Those are really convenient. Just point, pull trigger, after setting either 'F or 'C readout and within seconds you have your temp. readout. I want some new 1, 5 and 10 liter round bottom 3 4 or 5-neck flaks, plus some ultramicroscale glassware (think capacities of <10ml, smallest I have is 5ml, a 5ml pear shaped flask with a sidearm, integrated micro-vigreaux column, with vacuum takeoff adapter. Its cute. And some 10ml flasks. But I want the works, a full and extensive ultra-microscale kit, for when I want to work on quantities of experimental compounds that range from 25-100mg or so. And various reagents. Pyridine, fuming nitric acid, hydrazine, some nickel chloride, nickel metal powder, zinc powder, iron powder, aluminium and cobalt powder, as well as copper, for creating zinc-copper couples, and messing around with Urushibara nickel and Urushibara cobalt as hydrogenation catalysts that unlike the similar Raney nickel, Raney cobalt etc. are non-pyrophoric.
Pyridine sucks ass to use though, it STINKS. One of the foullest things I've ever had the nauseous odium of an experience in detecting the filthy reek thereof. EWWWEEWEWEWEWEW pyridine is just nasty. But useful. Could use lots of solvent refills. THF, diethyl ether, diisopropyl ether, tone and tolly, xylene, MEK/MiBK, mercury (II) chloride, mercuric nitrate. Calcium metal, strontium metal, potassium and sodium, perhaps more lithium although I can manage. Maybe if I have spare cash after treating myself to lots of lovely new glassware. And if that Hittorf phosphorus allotrope is still going, that on ebay plus some tellurium crystals and selenium. If there is any, some arsenious or arsenic acid, so I can reduce it to arsenic metal and then produce the other allotropes of arsenic along with those of phosphorus, of antimony and of bismuth. Nitrogen has some interesting ones, such as the metastable monatomic nitrogen created via passing N2 gas through a glow discharge. Or the likes of N5, the cyclic pentazenium ion although fuck knows what if anything I could DO with it.
I'd love to have a try at, once my dry ice condenser comes to daddy, creating some O8. No, not the ozone that is semifamiliar to many, that is blue in concentration, but RED oxygen, O8. Plus, possibly ozazone/oxazone, O4, which may be a dimeric complex of O2-O2 in a stacking, tetragonal, box-type configuration or another allotrope in its own right. Can be condensed with extreme caution as a darker blue, trace residue in ozone after the majority of ozone is distilled off reportedly.
Its days like this when I can afford to let my desire for new projects run wild, that I thank every damn quantum vacuum fluctuation that ever led to my being born autistic. Love it:autism:
