Distilling Nitroethane Since The DEA Ghosted Me

Going forward, if I was to do this again, I would do a slower heating distillation. Likely better separation!

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You could take the nitroethane that you collected (likely a mixture of it and butan-1-ol) and perform a simple oxidation, which won’t touch the nitroethane. Any butan-1-ol (117.7 °C) present will convert to butanal (74.8 °C) which has a much lower boiling point. That should make the distillate from the next distillation be squeaky clean.

The DEA loves it when you fill us up with distilled content

Nah. The DEA didn’t ghost you. You’re on a watch list and probably have a case file pending some kind of raid. They did it to Cody’s Lab, they’ll do it to you. 🤣🤦‍♂️

DEA here. We're just keeping an eye on you for now

Thanks for this Daddy

The nitroethane can form a nitronate salt. That might be one way to separate it from the alcohol. Not to mention you could get rid of most of the 1-butanol with a water wash. Nitroethane is only slightly soluble in water. But, I would be interested to see an alcoholic solution of sodium hydroxide added to the mixture. It's alcohols and ester, so you should get a precipitate.

I'm guessing the "crazy lines" are most likely due to a large change in refractive index in this particular mixture as the temperature increases. Convection currents rising up through the liquid bring areas of hot an cold into close proximity and light is refracted in random directions creating areas of bright and dark which present to the eyes as wiggly lines.

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I'm all set to run 100liters of sugar wash through two pot stills today, once I wake up a bit. First a stripping run through a 30 liter with an alembic condenser setup and then a second distillation through an older one with a reflux condenser for the spirit run, this is an excellent way to get me focused my man, appreciate you bro!

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Hi love your videos, I just found out that gallium can be used in an amalgam for reduction instead of Mercury. You should try it and show us the results

Your intros are always on point man

I’ve done this with extru- fix Nitroethane 30-60% dcm 30%~60% I methoxy 2 propanol 1-10% I washed the methoxy out with water then distilled off the dcm leaving me about 200mls of nitro that I fractioned off leaving a yellow goey stuff the last few mls this is from 500ml bottles everything comes off at around there boiling point . There was a fraction that came off at around 60c I think it was azeotropic boiling point between dcm and nitroethane that I think exists.excellent work people have talked about this for ages but your the first to post a video…….. nitroethane was good to go worked perfectly for removing glue!

Oh man this is the one. Thank you very very much

Every day Chemdelic is getting closer to receiving a visit from the DEA

you know its too hot when chemdelic drop a vid on dea watched chemicals

I usually play some light "How its made" music to the background while watching your videos lmao

in 2017 the cops knocked at my door with the landlord pushed past grabbed me (im home alone) they tell me im under arrest i say for what they said for "SHUT THE FUCK UP" and i said okay and yeah long story short im still in my same place i've always been still have my ;lab still do chemistry and yeah fuck em they wasted like 500k in surveillance and shit and many cops got fired =(