TYRONEEZEKIEL Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 Where on earth did you get that swede?!! Can you get a hold of any more?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrueBluePyro Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 google my friend. (google this EF466952YCC CAL NITRATE) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swede Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 Seymour, that is evil, paying as little as you did! The annoying thing is that slightly crude nitric is consumed in vast quantities in industry, whereas the stuff we tend to buy is lab grade, and the price difference between the two is huge. I am more excited about the lead nitrate than the other reagents. I probably should have bought more. Lead nitrate is used in large quantities in the lead dioxide plating process, and for a long time, chemsavers had a really good deal, but their prices really went up about 8 months ago. Nitric acid is also used in this process, but not in such vast quantities. The order has not arrived yet. I expected this because their web site had a 17 day backorder on the nitric acid; plus, I'm certain there is going to be delays due to the HAZMAT process. The other stuff arrived. Five pounds of balsa charcoal is a cube about 2 feet per side, and that is when it's compacted! It's super-fluffy stuff. And the immersion heater looks good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ventsi Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 So for once I decided to go to school *under the influence of drugs*. I know ,I know but I'm no pothead, and no offence to those who are!So after lunch my first class is chemistry , I'm taking it late in my school carrer b/c i decided to play it safe and take easier science classes first ensurring I get to graduate with good credits. So I walk into class and just sit down , not take any notes for once and so on. We start doing a pre-lab, the Lab is called Metal colors, and the teacher starts to write a chemical formula on the board, K..N...O...3. I suddenly get a little jolt. Then I look at the pre-lab- these are the reagents I'm working with tomorrow:LiNO3SrNO3CaNO3NaNO3BaNO3CuNO3KNO3PbNO3 So I get kind of spooked, Ba and Pb nitrates are supposed to be pretty evil stuff so I hope he gives us some safety equipment. Then we get a sheet where we are supposed to write down formulas and names of the chemicals, and for future work the color each one produces over a burner. I start writing everything down with out knowing my teacher is behind me. I'm writing like on a type writer without even glancing at the book, all the reagents arranged by color, color listed etc. I was done with the whole sheet before other students had even written two things down, then once done I turn around and see my teacher just looking at and my paper as if I had just proven Einstein wrong. Then he walks over and tells me in an amused/slightly afraid/trembling voice and says we were not suppose to write down the colors and notices I had written the chemicals in a ROYGBIV order and says "Looks like you've done this stuff before." . Then I just sat there giggling with my partner[also high]. Probably the only time I actually regretted smoking at all. Still a fun day though. I'm still considering getting a bit of the Ba,Pb,Cu and Sr nitrates, idunno though. Don't really want to get caught..... Should be a pretty cool lab, I bet my teacher would flip if I shot a SrNO3/Mg star across the class made with the reagents..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miech Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 Lithium nitrate makes you pretty happy, but nobody knows why . Just wear gloves and a dust mask if your salts are in fine powdered form. Lancaster has some nice colored Mg based stars with nitrate salts, they are on Passfire but my account expired. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEskimo Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 Lawl, Ventsi . I saw somwhere on here that SrNO3 is an apataric?spelling? Anyways, it'll make you sleepy if you eat some of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ventsi Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 (edited) A quick follow up. As usual the lab was disappointing, we only had a gram or two of each chemical and they were all in solution so unless we had had AgNO3 I didn't bother, and we didn't. Pretty interesting, though safety was a joke. Safety glasses and tie your hair back for the ladies. No ventilation from the Pb and Ba salts and I was feeling prettylight headed, oh well. One of the questins was , If you had to guess, which of the chemicals would be used in fireworks to produce the following colors: Green, Blue, Red,Yellow? Oh yeah!Even though Cu had a green flame and the Ba had a yellow one , I put what I know was correct and I am ready to defend my ground if he says i got it wrong. Edited September 24, 2009 by Ventsi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mumbles Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 I thought it was lithium carbonate that was used pharmaceutically. It's thought that it might increase the permeability of some neurons to seretonin the last time I heard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KruseMissile Posted September 26, 2009 Share Posted September 26, 2009 Got my package!1lb Sodium salicylate1lb sodium oxalate1 lb copper oxychloride1lb potassium benzoate1lb copper oxide black1lb lampblack1lb ammonium perchlorate1lb SRGS1lb boric acid1 lb cryolite1lb barium nitrate1lb sodium nitrate5lbs potassium perchlorate1lb strontium nitrate1lb barium carbonate5lbs rubber makers sulfurPretty much have everything i need to make anything Good feeling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KruseMissile Posted September 26, 2009 Share Posted September 26, 2009 Got a 12 ton shop press too! =D Now i need to make a blast shield and ill be set Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warcore Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 Just made a little 3 ton press Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miech Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 You're back into pyrotechnics? That makes me happy . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazyboy25 Posted September 28, 2009 Share Posted September 28, 2009 The order has not arrived yet. I expected this because their web site had a 17 day backorder on the nitric acid; plus, I'm certain there is going to be delays due to the HAZMAT process. The other stuff arrived. Five pounds of balsa charcoal is a cube about 2 feet per side, and that is when it's compacted! It's super-fluffy stuff. And the immersion heater looks good. Don't get your hopes up Swede, I placed an order just after I read your post, 15 days later they said the whole order was canceled because they had discontinued ALL the items I had ordered. The website says they still have nitric acid last I checked so on Tuesday maybe I'll call them and order via phone... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneEyeCharlie Posted September 28, 2009 Share Posted September 28, 2009 Finally. Located a place in my area that carries KNO3 in bulk. Picking up a 50 lb sack on Wednesday. That's going to be one really big smoke bomb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swede Posted September 28, 2009 Share Posted September 28, 2009 I've been PM'ing a lot of guys recently, and in the last week, my ability to respond has really slowed. I apologize for using the forum as a kind of "mass PM", but in this case, I have an excuse. My oldest daughter tied the knot Saturday, and the lead-up to the ceremony was one of intense activity. I've already put up a pic of her when she was commissioned 2Lt in the U.S. Army. She had been dating a young man for about three years, and made it official in an outdoor wedding at the local Botanical Gardens. Yes, I am the old guy next to the exquisite beauty. Less than 30 minutes prior to this picture, I was in shorts, a T-shirt, pouring sweat while single-handedly moving a large number of steel folding chairs for the ceremony. Single men on the prowl, eat your heart out. One less on the market. http://www.5bears.com/kirst/wedd01.jpg The lucky dude is going to be a chinook pilot. Most fathers of daughters cannot imagine anyone "good enough," but in this case, he is... a true gentleman and overall nice guy. http://www.5bears.com/kirst/wedd02.jpg I have some electrode stuff to get out, and many PM's to answer, so I appreciate the understanding on my slowness in this case. I slept half the day Sunday, a bit hung over for the first time in years, and am starting to function a bit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richtee Posted September 28, 2009 Share Posted September 28, 2009 (edited) Yes, I am the old guy next to the exquisite beauty. Less than 30 minutes prior to this picture, I was in shorts, a T-shirt, pouring sweat while single-handedly moving a large number of steel folding chairs for the ceremony. Single men on the prowl, eat your heart out. One less on the market. We have more in common I see...me trying not to cry walking the dau up the asile last month...And CONGRATS!http://www.apcforum.net/forums/uploads/1250150951/gallery_6205_33_25758.jpg Edited September 28, 2009 by Richtee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klaaskroegbaas Posted September 28, 2009 Share Posted September 28, 2009 congratulations! both of you! they look very happy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightHawkInLight Posted September 28, 2009 Share Posted September 28, 2009 Way to go Best wishes on the hangover recoveries all around! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSidewinder Posted September 28, 2009 Share Posted September 28, 2009 Wow, you two are OLD. *ducks and runs* Kidding aside, congratulations to both you AND your daughters. Sounds like they both caught "keepers". Light a few in their honor. M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEskimo Posted September 28, 2009 Share Posted September 28, 2009 Lawl...which one of you is the airline pilot? Both of you look like 'em...Middle aged, fairly spry, and with a big moustache Anyways, congratz--Now you can start using up yer retirement money without the kids interfering what with college payments, gas money, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mumbles Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 Congratulations to both of you. You guys of course just simultaneously crushed my dreams of converting to polygamy, getting 2 pretty wives, one FIL to make me chlorate and the other to make me meat items. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarbelly Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 Congratulations you two! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dagabu Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 I have been wondering where you have been Swede! From one Swede to another, congrats! I married my oldest off three years ago and only have five left to go! Yes.... I am an old coot too Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swede Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 Richtee... well done, bro'. I never realized how much work there was in pulling off a wedding. Thanks guys. And Dave, FIVE daughters??!! Yow... I thought I had mass estrogen issues in my house. All I really needed to pull it off completely were a few salutes, but the botanical gardens would have had my rear in a sling. If salutes are out of the question, I'm thinking a few mines or fountains, suitably placed well behind the couple as they turn to face the audience, would be cool. "Standby.... standby... 'You may kiss the bride' NOW!" BOOM-WHOOSH, etc. I'll bet there have been a few PGI weddings with some awesome effects. Back to reality now. Thanks for the warm wishes, and Richtee, congrats to your beauty as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flying fish Posted October 1, 2009 Share Posted October 1, 2009 Congrats again and Congrats. Wow, so that's what Rich looks like teary-eyed . This thread is making me feel super young. My happiness of the day...I PASSED O-CHEM! Barely... 1.3 on the 4. scale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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