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10 Oct 2007, 6:22 pm

I have a headache.


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10 Oct 2007, 6:23 pm

A compound consisting of four Oxygen atoms, one hydroxyl/bound to Hydrogen.
Two of the Oxygen atoms have double bonds.

Connected to what looks like 6 Carbon atoms, with 3 double bonds.

Aspirin?

Ok, wild guess.


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10 Oct 2007, 6:23 pm

Raph522 wrote:
I have a headache.


Dr. Quatermass, could you make Kim some Aspirin?



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10 Oct 2007, 6:26 pm

meow
wrong 8) I knews it.


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10 Oct 2007, 6:27 pm

8O



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10 Oct 2007, 6:28 pm

it doesnt count as a geuss if you can't see it.


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10 Oct 2007, 6:29 pm

So Quatermass, how do you use aspirin as a bomb?



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10 Oct 2007, 6:29 pm

iamnotaparakeet wrote:
It comes from willow bark.


You looked, didn't you?

Oh well.

Yes, it's acetylsalicylic acid, aka aspirin.

Now, in one of my chemistry classes when I was going to QUT, I had to make and refine aspirin over a period of some weeks.

At one point, they wanted us to refine aspirin using a solvent. However, they needed us to actually experiment to find the solvent out of four options. I cannot recall two of them. However, one was water, and the other was X4. Until now, I've never learnt completely what this crap is, but putting it through Wikipedia, I found out that it is actually petroleum ether, aka benzine. Benzine is NOT to be confused with benzene, as benzine is a mixture of various hydrocarbons.

Anyway, through what I thought was careful experimentation, I found that X4 was the best solvent, despite the fact that it was flammable.

I was refining the aspirin using the X4 when I noticed fumes coming out of the beaker. Stupidly, I attempted to stifle them using paper towelling. Soon afterwards, the paper and fumes ignited.

Thankfully, there was no explosion, just a nice little cocktail Molotov would have been proud of, a fountain of flame. They still had to use the fire extinguisher though, and I felt rather foolish when they explained that the true solvent was water!

I wasn't injured, except my pride, and nothing else was damaged. The beaker was a little sooty, though....


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10 Oct 2007, 6:31 pm

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C9H8O4



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10 Oct 2007, 6:34 pm

Nice. Are you still doing Chemistry?


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10 Oct 2007, 6:36 pm

Quatermass wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
It comes from willow bark.


You looked, didn't you?

Oh well.

Yes, it's acetylsalicylic acid, aka aspirin.

Now, in one of my chemistry classes when I was going to QUT, I had to make and refine aspirin over a period of some weeks.

At one point, they wanted us to refine aspirin using a solvent. However, they needed us to actually experiment to find the solvent out of four options. I cannot recall two of them. However, one was water, and the other was X4. Until now, I've never learnt completely what this crap is, but putting it through Wikipedia, I found out that it is actually petroleum ether, aka benzine. Benzine is NOT to be confused with benzene, as benzine is a mixture of various hydrocarbons.

Anyway, through what I thought was careful experimentation, I found that X4 was the best solvent, despite the fact that it was flammable.

I was refining the aspirin using the X4 when I noticed fumes coming out of the beaker. Stupidly, I attempted to stifle them using paper towelling. Soon afterwards, the paper and fumes ignited.

Thankfully, there was no explosion, just a nice little cocktail Molotov would have been proud of, a fountain of flame. They still had to use the fire extinguisher though, and I felt rather foolish when they explained that the true solvent was water!

I wasn't injured, except my pride, and nothing else was damaged. The beaker was a little sooty, though....


I haven't gotten to Organic yet, just finishing second year of general.

Cool Molotov flamethrower though.



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10 Oct 2007, 6:37 pm

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Nice. Are you still doing Chemistry?


Yeah, but I'm focusing more on physics and electronics now. Do you mean Quatermass?



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10 Oct 2007, 6:39 pm

iamnotaparakeet wrote:
Anubis wrote:
Nice. Are you still doing Chemistry?


Yeah, but I'm focusing more on physics and electronics now. Do you mean Quatermass?


Both, I suppose.


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10 Oct 2007, 6:39 pm

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Nice. Are you still doing Chemistry?


Not practically. I'm doing a Masters' degree, and I don't need to do that. Besides, the only flames I've been let near at Griffith are for Microbiology, if I recall correctly, and that's for sterilising loops. I love to hear bacteria crackle and pop..... :twisted:


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10 Oct 2007, 6:47 pm

Quatermass wrote:
Anubis wrote:
Nice. Are you still doing Chemistry?


Not practically. I'm doing a Masters' degree, and I don't need to do that. Besides, the only flames I've been let near at Griffith are for Microbiology, if I recall correctly, and that's for sterilising loops. I love to hear bacteria crackle and pop..... :twisted:
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10 Oct 2007, 6:54 pm

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