No water?
this post was submitted on 15 Dec 2025
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These things are mostly used for dry, waterfree solvents.
We do proper science here, which explodes and/or becomes useless if it sees even one water molecule. So no, no water! Begone with your aquatic sin!
Or iso or MEK. I guess you need the Pepsi solvent dispenser for those.
Or DMSO.... My man is not doing organic chem I guess?
I’ll wait for the freestyle machine so I can order laquer thinner in my favorite flavor
but what about the situations where you need a polar aprotic solvent?
"quarter decaliter" makes me irrationally angry
Pentahemiliters.
No distilled water?
That's the universal solvent. It would just eat right through the machine!
Mmm THF. In another life I had a sample I was preparing using THF as a solvent, and I didn’t know how these tiny black specks got into it. Took a moment to realize the THF had dissolved the adhesive that held the numbers and markings on the glass pipette I used to draw it from the bottle 😅
Oof, did you have to start over? What do you even put old thf in when you're done with it
Yeah I had to start over or the synthesis would have been botched 😅
Also we had to dispose of the bottle the THF came in, since the pipette graduations were now floating around in there.
How did we dispose of it? Poured it all back into the bottle and labeled/kept it as waste.
Yeah this is why I always had a healthy fear of everything I was doing in chem class, I even missed an important lab day cause I was hungover and it was an HCL lab, shits scary
"The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we’d get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. Probably at the next gas station. We had sampled almost everything else, and now— yes, it was time for a long snort of ether. And then do the next hundred miles in a horrible, slobbering sort of spastic stupor. The only way to keep alert on ether is to do up a lot of amyls—not all at once, but steadily, just enough to maintain the focus at ninety miles an hour through Barstow."
Hunter S. Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Where's phosphoric acid? That's the OG teeth solvent.
lemonele?
The coca cola dispenser didn't even need to be edited. I've used that stuff as a solvent for engine block corrosion more times than I can count
Ether would be good as gin and tonic, sub for tonic.