Hey, with the sulfuric acid + ethanol = ether reaction, could I use denatured alcohol instead of pure ethanol? As long as it yields nothing toxic/carcinogenic you could use a bit of methanol, couldn't you?

Sorry about being a novice to organic chemistry. At least I think it's organic chemistry.

I'd say it would result in dimethyl ether..... just buy some everclear and dry it on dehydrated salts man. Not worth risking fucking with dimethyl ether and shit. Or if you did use denatured you could keep the ether in the fridge and the DME would evaporate off...

Hmm. It appears fortunately dimethyl ether has a boiling point of −23 °C so as long as I let it air away from a flame, I should be fine?

Also, I can't get everclear here.

Heat has it right. And to answer your second question, IS IT REALLY WORTH THE BUZZ?



Seriously, respect your body more than that kid, or you won't live to see 20.

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Get Vodka (or go to a pharmacy and ask for "injection alcohol or whatever you OZ call it) its 90% EtOH. Distill it with a long fractionating column and slowly. Add some Anhydrous Magnesium Sulfate, filter and distill it again (with a column). That is as clean as it will get, that is what i do when i synthesis benzocaine or ether. Also DO NOT perform this ether synthesis if you do not have proper glassware! If you fuck up it will blow in your face! and yes traces of Methanol are indeed very bad, dimethyl ether is not some nice stuff!

Good luck anyways!

If you're referring to me as "that kid", I meant to use everclear as an ethanol source. But yes... everclear is worth the buzz.... if you're referring to that? haha

pretty sure sn's talking about sniffing ether. I really hope swiy is planning an extraction, and not planning on inhaling Et2O.

no man, you just misunderstood the timbre of my post, I was telling him "you need to respect your body more than THAT, kid"


That referring to huffing methyl ether, with the OP being the "kid"

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So ethyl ether is safe? Good to know.

Ethyl ether is safe as hell, methyl ether, however, is not safe at all.

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