(First off: Note to Sarah. Yes, I have heard of Vienna Teng, but I didn’t give the poor girl much of a chance–I think I downloaded “Harbor” just before the Great Format. So now, upon your urging, I’m kinda seizing upon every mp3 I come across. Sorry, I’ve been busy completing my CORE OF SOUL collection.)<\/p>\n
I’m an organic chemist for all of three hours every week. Just so you Arts students (and non-organic chemists) understand what this feels like, I’m reproducing a page from my lab notebook):<\/p>\n
10:10 Finish assembling app. Charge 50 mL rbf w\/2 g 5-t-butyl-m-xylene and stirbar. Cool 5 mL HNO3<\/sub>\/7 mL H2<\/sub>SO4<\/sub> in Erlenmeyer. And it kind of disappears after that. Of all the times to have a fire alarm–it just happens<\/b> to be at the end of a lab. Just as I’m about to finish. (My observations should go on to recount the pale yellow crystals afforded from recrystallization, but I was just concerned about getting out of there. Besides which, they’re not collecting the observations from this lab, anyway.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (First off: Note to Sarah. Yes, I have heard of Vienna Teng, but I didn’t give the poor girl much of a chance–I think I downloaded “Harbor” just before the Great Format. So now, upon your urging, I’m kinda seizing upon every mp3 I come across. Sorry, I’ve been busy completing my CORE OF SOUL […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[52,64],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","tag-chemistry","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1069,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions\/1069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n10:15 Begin addition of cooled acidic mixture to reaction vessel. Reaction mixture turns pale yellow. Brown deposits on wall of flask?
\n10:25 Finish addition.
\n10:30 Switch ice bath for oil bath. Power: 7 Temp: 50 \u00baC
\n10:40 110 \u00baC reached. turn power to 5. Reaction mixture turns orange. Yellow\/orange fumes being evolved into condenser.
\n11:15 Remove oil bath, switch for ice bath.
\n11:35 Transfer to 40 mL ice
\n12:00 Triturate + air dry crude pdt
\n12:10 Receiver weight: 48.78 Receiver + crude pdt: 54.70
\n12:20 Set up reflux apparatus. Add EtOH to cover crude pdt. Heat Thermowell.
\n12:30 FIRE ALARM<\/p>\n