Gluon's lab

Limonene, aka 4-isopropenyl-1-methylcyclohexene or dipentene, is a colourless or slightly yellow liquid. Naturally it occurs in many citrus ...

A few days ago I had a go at making hydrazine dihydrochloride. Hydrazine dihydrochloride is a salt of hydrazine with the formula N2H2.(HCl)2...

Methylammonium chloride aka methanamine hydrochloride, methylamine hydrochloride or just aminomethane hydrochloride, is an interesting compo...

Dichloromethane, also called methylene chloride or simply DCM, is an extremely useful organic solvent with the formula CH2Cl2. It's a ve...

I made this chemical last weekend. It's interesting stuff. I plan to use it to make sodium ethylsulphate and eventually diethyl thioethe...

SULPHUR MONOCHLORIDE I've been planning this experiment for a while now and I've finally had a chance to try it out: making sulphu...

 This is something I tried out a while ago. Triethyl phosphate is a colourless liquid occasionally used as a solvent in the lab. Its formu...