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Just out of curiositry from this talk about poisons, I have an old "medicine" bottle I was curious about. Its contents read:
500 Compressed Tablets
Sugar Coated Red
Iron and Mercury Compound
(Dr. Fiske)
Garanteed under the Food and Drugs Act
June 30, 1906
Serial No. 734
Iron by Hydrogen.......1gr
Mercury bichloride...1.6gr
Stryctnine Sulph......1.6gr
Arsenious Acid........1.8gr
Dose: 1 to 2 three times a day.
Manufactured by
The National Drug Company
Philadephia, PA
As these compounds are so poisonous(1gr=65mg I think), why would you take this? I have done some research but could not come up with anything, although I know many poisonous compounds are used for skin treatment. Btw, the bottle is still over half full if you want somthing yummy for breakfast...put it on some cereal or something.
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In Topic: colored flame
05 July 2005 - 05:25 PM
Although I've never tried this, I believe that if you where to add a copper salt(probably copper nitrate) it would color it green. I've got only a little bit(testing out nitric acid 
) and as yet don't have good enough charcoal to make decent gunpowder. Wouldn't hurt to try, although you would have to play around with the proportions as earlier stated, other mixtures might not have enough kick to get off the ground.
) and as yet don't have good enough charcoal to make decent gunpowder. Wouldn't hurt to try, although you would have to play around with the proportions as earlier stated, other mixtures might not have enough kick to get off the ground.
In Topic: Making Charcoal
30 June 2005 - 03:48 AM
Hi! I am a bit of a chemist, so I had a couple of questions about processing charcoal.
As was discussed earlier, there is probably a way to prepare standard BBQ charcoal to a better form. Since I believe that ash is potassium carbonate, which has realitivly solubity in water(I've extracted it from fireplace ash before by heating it), couldn't you mill standard BBQ charcoal and then pass hot water over it to purify it? Perhaps using a solvent like carbon tetrachloride(possibly even acetone) could be used to further purify it. This may sound like a lot of work, but I'm not in an area where I really want to produce high amounts of smoke for a couple of hours.
Also, I've heard that you can get activated carbon from fish stores. Anyone played with this as it sounds like the ideal "chacoal". Also, wouldn't graphite work in a similar manner? I have some broken carbon rods and know how to get them relativly cheaply.
Finally, out of curiosity, is the flammable gas that comes off during processing methonal? If so, it might be nice to use it for something else if I was to prepare the charcaol since I would already have to set up some sort of condensor not to attract too much attention(people think you're a terrorist in America if you do anything pyrotechnic..).
Even if you want to just yell at me because I missed the answears to these on the web or on the forums, giving me the links would help me a lot.
As was discussed earlier, there is probably a way to prepare standard BBQ charcoal to a better form. Since I believe that ash is potassium carbonate, which has realitivly solubity in water(I've extracted it from fireplace ash before by heating it), couldn't you mill standard BBQ charcoal and then pass hot water over it to purify it? Perhaps using a solvent like carbon tetrachloride(possibly even acetone) could be used to further purify it. This may sound like a lot of work, but I'm not in an area where I really want to produce high amounts of smoke for a couple of hours.
Also, I've heard that you can get activated carbon from fish stores. Anyone played with this as it sounds like the ideal "chacoal". Also, wouldn't graphite work in a similar manner? I have some broken carbon rods and know how to get them relativly cheaply.
Finally, out of curiosity, is the flammable gas that comes off during processing methonal? If so, it might be nice to use it for something else if I was to prepare the charcaol since I would already have to set up some sort of condensor not to attract too much attention(people think you're a terrorist in America if you do anything pyrotechnic..).
Even if you want to just yell at me because I missed the answears to these on the web or on the forums, giving me the links would help me a lot.
