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Hmm, any other ideas? I don't think I have any old coffee pots laying around. Although I think i might have one in the attic. Just out of curiosity besides lab equipment what else would be best to use?

Ah thanks a bunch, I think you answered about all my questions. A few more though, think an aluminum can might work to boil it into prevent the iron oxide from occurring? It works for boiling, I've used it countless times as an improvision. And I thought potassium chlorate was non-flammable :p...

Um. Bump* Sorry, just won't to keep this up for now. Also on a bit more personal question, jeffy I see it says your in texas, what city? :p

But the bleach method works decently and makes really decent batch of potassium chlorate? When I did it before it was turning brown.. Meaning it wasnt too pure. So I thought this method would be better. It might help if you fill in the current and the amount made blanks :p But what one would you...

Hi another annoying question from me. I found this walkthrough on how to make potassium chlorate while reading through some things. http://img92.imageshack.us/img92/999/adsfpj5.png Think this way will work? It seems like it should work when you think about it, but that's not really what I am...

Well I am not exactly looking for that, I am just wondering if there is any way on making these alcohols at home. I heard you can get some alcohol from boil vegetables or anything like that.. So i was curious to know if there was a cheap way of making useful alcohol at home.

Something I've been wondering a lot lately is how would you make your own wood alcohol? It seems somewhat simple and I can't find any decent things on google about it. Anyone know how to make? Or have a step by step process on it. Edit: Actually I think I am looking for ethyl alcohol. But both...

try to see if you can scrape some peices off of it with a knife. If its like dust then its probly carbon.