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Hello friends, I'm sorry in advance for my bad English. I started on this path about 3 years ago. At that time, I had a great way of extracting MBRP from matchboxes. As far as I remember, I scraped matchboxes. Then I washed it with acetone and rinsed it. Then, I boiled it with hydrochloric acid and cleaned the paper pieces that came out. This is all I remember about those times and I don't remember where I got this recipe. Now let's get to our main topic.
I decided to go this route again and went and bought matchboxes again.
These matchboxes are not the ones with white holes, they are completely brown coated matchboxes. I tested a few things written. The first of these was to first intervene with hot water, but after intervening with hot water, I could not scrape anything and it started to peel off along with all the paper.
Then I changed the method, I dipped the side of any matchbox in acetone without cutting it and started scraping it with a razor and it worked much better. I've included a picture of the razor I used below.
I finished the process, then crushed all the collected MBRP in a small mortar until it was completely powdered. I made everything in completely clean glass containers. No tools touched with soap were used. After I finished crushing everything, I poured the powder into a glass beaker and covered it with acetone.
Here comes my real question. What should I do from now on to make my RP cleaner? I read articles stating that the use of water or sulfuric acid damages RP, but I was not completely sure. I need help on this matter. What should I do from here? How can I clean more? Or, as I mentioned at the beginning, if I boil it again with hydrochloric acid (I don't remember if there were any other steps), would the RP be clean enough for RXN?
I decided to go this route again and went and bought matchboxes again.
These matchboxes are not the ones with white holes, they are completely brown coated matchboxes. I tested a few things written. The first of these was to first intervene with hot water, but after intervening with hot water, I could not scrape anything and it started to peel off along with all the paper.
Then I changed the method, I dipped the side of any matchbox in acetone without cutting it and started scraping it with a razor and it worked much better. I've included a picture of the razor I used below.
I finished the process, then crushed all the collected MBRP in a small mortar until it was completely powdered. I made everything in completely clean glass containers. No tools touched with soap were used. After I finished crushing everything, I poured the powder into a glass beaker and covered it with acetone.
Here comes my real question. What should I do from now on to make my RP cleaner? I read articles stating that the use of water or sulfuric acid damages RP, but I was not completely sure. I need help on this matter. What should I do from here? How can I clean more? Or, as I mentioned at the beginning, if I boil it again with hydrochloric acid (I don't remember if there were any other steps), would the RP be clean enough for RXN?