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[–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

...I think we did it on a hotplate.

Maybe we were using toluene as a solvent or something. It's been quite a while.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You said that you only did the first nitration, right? You were probably using slightly less concentrated ingredients then. Doing it on a hotplate with oleum and fuming nitric (required for all three nitrations) is madness.

[–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Yeah that probably makes more sense. I think we were just using bog standard sulfuric acid and nitric acid.