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Laboratory Tips Safety proceedures, test reagents, drilling rubber stoppers, bending glass tubes, etc. Contributed to by chemists.

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Old 2002-12-14, 18:44
beakerblast beakerblast is offline
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Default curious drano

does crystal drano have the same chemical reactions as lye it contains caustic soda is the closest thing I can find. also if usable does it have to be refined
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Old 2002-12-14, 20:02
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Drano is lye but it is ussually mixed with all sorts of junk like aluminum and blue stuff???? It can't be used as sodium hydroxide because of these impurities. I don't know of any practical way to clean it either. Get some soapmaking sodium hydroxide.
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Old 2002-12-14, 22:22
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found other stuff white but has little chunks of metal in it for drain cleaning says contains sodium hydroxide. also P2O5 rp?
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Old 2002-12-15, 01:44
Sivvy Sivvy is offline
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cant find red devil lye?
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Old 2002-12-15, 21:23
beakerblast beakerblast is offline
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in canada cant find it but im in a rural area

 
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