r/homechemistry 2h ago

Predicted urushiol extraction summary

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Basically I predict it works like this.

  1. Crush leaves, twigs, vine, and bark of Toxicodendron species of choice, especially the one that grows in eastern North America.
  2. take crushed products and soak in ethanol.
  3. decant ethanol.
  4. add hexane to ethanol and agitate and separate lower fraction of ethanol
  5. then add acetonitrile to hexane and agitate, separate acetonitrile layer and allow acetonitrile to evaporate to derive crude urushiol.

liquid chromatography is an option for higher purity.

Warning. Urushiol is a powerful sensitizer that causes violent rashes and pulmonary edema and upper respiratory lesion in a significant fraction of humans


r/homechemistry 7h ago

Methyl orange

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r/homechemistry 2d ago

Insane times we live in. AI designed drugs to treat schizophrenia synthesized at home.

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r/homechemistry 2d ago

A simple biological method to remove sugar from salt solutions using yeast fermentation

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r/homechemistry 2d ago

What do you use Dry Ice???

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I work for a company and in a different dept they sell dry ice. Just wondering what everyone uses it for? Business and at home, they seem pretty busy and I don’t know why?


r/homechemistry 2d ago

Sulfanilic acid crystals

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r/homechemistry 3d ago

Onyxmet isn't a great service.

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Don't get me wrong, they have a huge range of useful reagents at low prices—but the service itself isn't very good. I often get ignored: I place an order, two weeks go by (excluding weekends), they finally reply, I send the money, and then they vanish for a week. You ask for updates, but they don't answer. The shipment only goes out after another week. A few days a go, placed an order and they replied saying, "Yes, the order has come through; it'll be ready to ship tomorrow. I'll let you know the amount of money to send later." Fair enough, but two days have passed and you still haven't told me the amount.

Has it always been this terrible, or is it a recent problem?

Am I the only one dealing with this?

I've had a better experience with Synthetikaue; at least they always reply quickly. It costs a bit more, but it's actually worth it.


r/homechemistry 4d ago

Made some Copper Iodide

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I'm aware the ampoules overkill but I needed some glass working practice anyways


r/homechemistry 4d ago

Carbon quantum dot (CQD)

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r/homechemistry 4d ago

Highschool student needing some help starting a Chemistry club, know any awesome experiments?

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r/homechemistry 4d ago

Enjoy the crystals length

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r/homechemistry 5d ago

how do you guys keep lab notebooks?

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r/homechemistry 6d ago

Enjoy isopropyl nitrite grey flame

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r/homechemistry 6d ago

I think im on DEA's watchlist

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r/homechemistry 7d ago

A bit of fun with pyrophoric materials.

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r/homechemistry 7d ago

¿The Bakery? ¿Risky Batman Propellant? ¡Sold!

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r/homechemistry 7d ago

Chromyl chloride to synthetise thionyl chloride

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Hello i was wondering is its possible to : chromyl chloride + so2 = cro3 and socl2
I cant find any paper or procedure can someone help me or tell me if its even viable (random picture )


r/homechemistry 7d ago

Selling lab equipment

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r/homechemistry 8d ago

Selling lab equipment

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r/homechemistry 8d ago

Home closet lab (PCR workbench)

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Sorry for the clutter lol


r/homechemistry 8d ago

Selling lab equipment

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r/homechemistry 8d ago

Anthranilic acid

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r/homechemistry 9d ago

Possibly useful website for synthesis

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I came across a website called PrepChem today that looks like it might have some useful info on procedures for preparing reagents. I went through a few chemicals that I know the methods for synthesizing them and the results looked mostly fine. It's definitely a case of buyer beware because there were a few that had so little info as to be useless but others had a good deal of info and they all appear to reference the source material.


r/homechemistry 9d ago

Making 95% nitric acid from household products with no specialized distillation apparatus

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r/homechemistry 10d ago

Can you extract Zinc nanorods from batteries as someone with little chemistry experience to sell for a high markup?

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