Making grain beetles horny for my undergrad organic chemistry degree.
Didn't get to see a train beetle rub one out. Thankfully.
Do they make Kleenex that small?
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My final year organic chemistry dissertation to make grain beetle pheromone. Very large ring molecule with until then very low yields.
Sounds more like biology.
I tried a few simple AB extractions long ago in a previous life.
Crack cocaine
Baking
Colouring hair, baking soda+vinegar (to clean and showoff), crude fuel cell, cleaning a washing machine with borax and something (some soda?)
um, Ive nitrated various organic compounds at home as a teenager
My HS chem teacher was a troll; he assigns my group Belousov-Zhabotinsky reactions. Which meant dealing with 1999 internet trying to find resources on it. OTOH, it did make for a very pretty lab demo.
Speedballing