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Whats this look like to you? I did a couple things. I heated ammonium chloride and formaldehyde with an alihn condenser and 110° turndown vacuum fitting on top and vacuum pump for a few hours and let it cool and filtered it. Then I distilled the liquid under vacuum for a couple hours and condensed the distillate and let it cool and filtered it. Then I condensed and filtered it a couple more times. I took filtrates#3-5 and refluxed them in methanol that I distilled twice from a jug of windshield washer fluid, for 30 minutes and hot filtered it 2 times. I let it get cold in the freezer, filtered the crystals off and Then I rinsed them with the liquid I distilled from the bottom of 3 jugs of bleach with 60ml of acetone in them left outside overnight and decanted. I took some ethyl acetate, and dissolved some 2-b-4-mp in it, then added the crystals from the previous discussion and 2.63 grams of NaOH and 100ml of water. I heated it toward 60°c for about 30 minutes. Then I distilled it under vacuum until there was very little liquid left. Then I added some acetone and hydrochloric acid until my ph papers looked like 5 on the booklet. I put it in the freezer for a long time. This is just my rough recollection of what happened. When I came back this was at the bottom of the liquid. I've never seen this particular thing before. Never smelled it. Never tasted it. This wouldn't dissolve in absolute acetone or absolute iso.
It definitely isn't any of the things I put in the flask in the beginning. It doesn't smell like ammonia and definitely not like 2-b-4-mp thank God, I'll never get that smell out of my nose.
I burnt some, it didn't have a distinct smell. It had a scent but nothing I can put my finger on. The smoke didn't burn my nose or make my eyes water. Does it look like something I should save? What's the next test?
It definitely isn't any of the things I put in the flask in the beginning. It doesn't smell like ammonia and definitely not like 2-b-4-mp thank God, I'll never get that smell out of my nose.
I burnt some, it didn't have a distinct smell. It had a scent but nothing I can put my finger on. The smoke didn't burn my nose or make my eyes water. Does it look like something I should save? What's the next test?