If anyone has been keeping up with me, you already know my love and desire to improvise and work straight off the store shelves as much as I possibly can. I realize I am making things much more complicated and difficult this way, there are various pros and cons to this approach, I really like the idea of not leaving a paper trail by ordering anything specific and I find it very satisfying, working with whatever is available personally.
As a chemistry noobie, there are many things that I just don't know. I don't know how to figure out what I don't know. How to figure out solutions to my problems. I'm sure I have passed over lots of information I will need at some point, but I don't know I will need to know certain information until the problem is immediately at hand. For example, if I see a recipe or tek for a way to make a drug, I generally assume that the only way to make that drug is by using the chemicals in the recipe. What I realized is that there are specific chemicals that are necessary for a particular synthesis, etc. However, included in a recipe are certain techniques that are used in many different recipes which can be accomplished in more ways than one. For example, to do an acid/base extraction, or to turn freebase into salt.
So, we know about the mercury/acid reaction for creating aluminum amalgum, a technique which is used in many recipes. The only recipes I have seen that mention or utilize this technique have required mercury(II) nitrate or elemental mercury and nitric acid etc. What I didn't realize until recently is that aluminum amalgum can be created using mercury(II) chloride or by reacting mercury and chlorine. As we all know, depending on ones location, different chemicals and products are going to be available or not. In USA, nitric acid is not readily available from the store as far as I know. On the other hand, chlorine is. For me, this is extremely useful knowledge. Some recipes will include an alternative method for producing a desired result, others don't, and so, I am led to believe and get trapped in my thinking that the only way to do something is by using what is in the recipe. Another example relevent for me at the moment is the ammonium nitrate needed to perform shake and bake cooks. The correct proportion of ammonium sulfate can be used instead to generate the ammonia to dissolve the lithium.
I understand certain things are going to be necessary and specific, like I said, for example, there is probably no way of getting around the need for certain precursors, P2p, P2np, MDP2p in order to achieve the corresponding amine. For what I said above, about using mercury(II) chloride instead of mercury(II) nitrate, I am sure alot of people will be interested to learn and have a better understanding about what else could be used and how it works, why it is necessary, etc. What chemicals can be extracted and purified from what products and then reacted with other OTC chemicals to get whatever might be useful for what we are trying to do. If anyone knows anything or has any ideas, please do share. Thank you, and good luck!
As a chemistry noobie, there are many things that I just don't know. I don't know how to figure out what I don't know. How to figure out solutions to my problems. I'm sure I have passed over lots of information I will need at some point, but I don't know I will need to know certain information until the problem is immediately at hand. For example, if I see a recipe or tek for a way to make a drug, I generally assume that the only way to make that drug is by using the chemicals in the recipe. What I realized is that there are specific chemicals that are necessary for a particular synthesis, etc. However, included in a recipe are certain techniques that are used in many different recipes which can be accomplished in more ways than one. For example, to do an acid/base extraction, or to turn freebase into salt.
So, we know about the mercury/acid reaction for creating aluminum amalgum, a technique which is used in many recipes. The only recipes I have seen that mention or utilize this technique have required mercury(II) nitrate or elemental mercury and nitric acid etc. What I didn't realize until recently is that aluminum amalgum can be created using mercury(II) chloride or by reacting mercury and chlorine. As we all know, depending on ones location, different chemicals and products are going to be available or not. In USA, nitric acid is not readily available from the store as far as I know. On the other hand, chlorine is. For me, this is extremely useful knowledge. Some recipes will include an alternative method for producing a desired result, others don't, and so, I am led to believe and get trapped in my thinking that the only way to do something is by using what is in the recipe. Another example relevent for me at the moment is the ammonium nitrate needed to perform shake and bake cooks. The correct proportion of ammonium sulfate can be used instead to generate the ammonia to dissolve the lithium.
I understand certain things are going to be necessary and specific, like I said, for example, there is probably no way of getting around the need for certain precursors, P2p, P2np, MDP2p in order to achieve the corresponding amine. For what I said above, about using mercury(II) chloride instead of mercury(II) nitrate, I am sure alot of people will be interested to learn and have a better understanding about what else could be used and how it works, why it is necessary, etc. What chemicals can be extracted and purified from what products and then reacted with other OTC chemicals to get whatever might be useful for what we are trying to do. If anyone knows anything or has any ideas, please do share. Thank you, and good luck!