Sneak peek of lab

Did you build it in your house??

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Oh, wow! How did you handle the ventilation for the fume hood? I know you can't just vent the stuff out.

Dawnbandit

I wouldnt know, i built this one :)

Nile Red

I'm actually curious, how does one rent a lab? Is it at a local university/college?

Dawnbandit

FOOM HOOD

Herbert999

Shazam!

I actually got a centrifuge that can fit entire flasks. Its an IEC Centra 7...got it for $300 CAD lol. I just looked it up and a site is selling it for 1750 USD (without shipping)!!!

Nile Red

I think its better than what some of my friends in grad school have to work with lol

Nile Red

In my sketchy garage. Good memories.

Nile Red

You have some nilered glassware? nice! Also, working with perfumes is a cool idea. There's a surprising amount of science and chemistry in that industry and its a great way to get girls interested.\

Nile Red

At a workspace\

Nile Red

It's in a rented commercial space

Nile Red

Hey, I definitely should do electrochem. There is just something about it though, that my brain doesn't like. I have no idea why. I will do some eventually though. Also, I have a centrifuge that can fit entire flasks, I just havent used it yet. I also have a vacuum dessicator/chamber. In the future Ill try to get some analytical equipment but it really isnt a priority right now

Nile Red

Very professional looking. You always made me nervous with nasty stuff in your back yard or whatever.

This looks fantastic, I'm getting really jealous. :)

Colin Ries

That is an incredible setup! Truly awesome!

Matthew Wilson

Some good equipment to get would be Lab, but not Medical grade 500-4000 RPM and 0 to 60 minute Centrifuge. I am using it to remove impuirities from plant extracts, etc.

Daniel Blake Shoemaker

That is awesome! Looks like a proper university lab!

Gabriel J.

Very nice. Some of my fondest memories were working in the lab as a grad student. I miss the soap stone benches with reagent bottles up high, lab notebooks, PCR machines, spectrophotometers, precision balances with submilligram scales, Pipetman P1000, P200 and P20 on the bench. I use alot of this stuff at home for hobby stuff now. My daughters had a perfume making party where we mixed essential oils into grain alcohol to make custom perfumes using pipets and notebooks. I also use them for mixing aniline dyes for woodworking. Scales are also much better to use for cooking. We also cook with Nile Red glassware (that is not used for chemicals).

it's beautiful! Feels like I'm at work again :)

We really appreciate all the time, money and effort that goes into something like this! What do you think about doing some electrochemistry? If you need any help with repairing/refurbishing some used (read: affordable) electrical equipment, I would be more than happy to help in any way I can (I'm an electrical engineer). I would just love to see some electrochemistry! (How about electrons 'falling off' of a wire in anhydrous ammonia; would a strong magnetic field actually change the visible blue pattern, before the solution became homogeneous? If not, would a high voltage, together with very cold ammonia, be able to increase the mean drif velocity of the electrons enough to get a noticeable electric-current-like response? Have you thought about getting and refurbishing some second-hand analytical equipment (NMR, LC-MS, IR, Raman Spectroscopy, etc) to determine what products formed and how pure the final result is? Some other equipment to keep an eye on, if you ever get a good deal, would be a high temperature, quartz tube furnace (i.e. for semiconductor fabrication and other high-temperature chemistry); a centrifuge (saves a lot of time during filtration, with some compounds); a vacuum chamber, suitable for physical/chemical vapour deposition, a crude demonstration of mass spectrometry (determination of the m/z ratios of Hydrogen, Helium and the Electron, for example), as well as other air-sensitive reactions: I have always wondered: If you had an electrolytic cell, with both compartments filled with pure water, and an impenetrable insulator of appreciable thickness (such as 1cm of glass) inbetween them, would accelerating protons towards a negative electrode (cathode), situated in the second compartment, behind the insulator, cause the water in the first compartment to become acidic, without undue decomposition? I figured that, since the H3O+ will be attracted to the negative side, forming a crude electrolytic capacitor?

really cool! is in your home? looks like a small university lab... keep going, you are such a inspirantion to me in chemistry!

Nice! Is this at home or work?

Looks better than mine. Considering that mine is a basement where I also have old baby furniture, clotheslines, TVs that I don't use anymore, boxes of packing peanuts and bubble wrap etc. :)

Silviu T

That's looking mighty fine. The fume cabinet is awesome.

😲🤓 Wow, that's fantastic! 😍😀 That fume hood/cabinet... I think I drooled a little... (OK, I drooled a lot!)

Michael Aichlmayr

Holy shit thats my dream

Thor Correia

Magnificent! You’ve done an excellent job. So professional.

Very cool

Can't wait for all the science that will be coming out of there!!! Looks amazing!

really cool

Nicolas Raynaud

really beautiful! Nice work.

HECK YEAH, this is looking awesome man, congrats!

I clicked the picture thinking it was a video. Was sorely disappointed :P haha. Lookin good!

The Gayest Person on Patreon

Looking forward to the tour!

Isaac Roll

Looking good :)

Nice! It looks awesome!

Martel DuVigneaud

Damn.... this really turns me on.