mason jar tek

[vixintrex]

anything scaled down to a mason jar instead of a pickle jar?

 

[vixintrex]

closest thing I see is max ion

 

[vixintrex]

proposed recipe:

45 grams of jurema in a 32 oz mason jar
cover with 150 ml water
cook/freeze, cook/freeze, cook/freeze
15g citric acid in 25 ml water
35g salt in 100ml water
45g lye in 100ml water. cook/shake

I don't wish to discuss nps as of yet.

pretending we can convert mass to density (hey 1ml water = 1g) I see 490 ml of a 950 ml mason jar which leaves plenty of room to nps

 

[vixintrex]

.2 moles citric acid is 40g of citric acid. hm. I think this is what I'm looking at. if I add this to the 150ml of water that'll be .2 moles in .2 L so 1M/L of really bad math calculates all three protonations of citric acid to have a ph of 1.2 but I don't really know how to calculate pka so this could also be 2 or 2.1. I also upon reconsideration like to keep everything aqueous so 25g citric acid in 25 ml water sounds more fun sort of like 35g salt in 100ml water.

questions: ronsonol vs naphtha
benefits of hydrochloric acid vs citric acid. a second run might use hydrochloric acid.
supersaturating the salt solution. what if I put 45 grams of salt in 100ml of water and it crashes out of the bottom. is that cool?

aslo: cheers for slow evap

 

[vixintrex]

dam. so 15 grams of citric acid in 200ml of water is still a ph of less than 2. is this too harsh? stoichiometrically 15 grams of citric acid should be neutralized by 5 grams of lye. or maybe 15 since they have three hydroxyl groups.

I'm not too great at calculating a triprotic ph. I don't really remember how to do the dissociation constant thing.

 

[vixintrex]

if ph is a logarithmic scale
of stoichiometric concentration
then 2 moles of lye in 20 moles of water
should have a ph of 13