weaving in and around miss K's ankles and purring loudly
Doing some video-editing for my science corner 'Lestat's lab', converting the video file as taken through two different formats, stripping metadata from each and stripping the final one before uploading via TOR (although the compound in question isn't identified, in this case, I do the same thing on principle anyway, because damned if I am going to leave my house's GPS coordinates encoded in my videos, or camera serial numbers and other such creepy unneeded security-risk file size-bloating shite, especially not that which would or could be used to personally identify me.
So converting formats, testing the videos and stripping out the metadata, whilst smoking a cigar.
In this case the identity of the compound isn't the important bit. The synthesis itself was done ages ago, this is simply catching another crop of crystals that formed. Perhaps the 4th. After that, if nothing more forms, will microwave the mother liquor with a few drops more of the catalyst used a few times, give it another 10 minutes in pulsed heating-cooling cycles (the reaction in question would normally take an hour, maybe two at reflux temperatures and give a product of lesser purity, whilst 10 min in my lab microwave that I quite literally just happened to 'find' abandoned, it works, and so use it for MW chemistry) MW chem can be awesome, cutting not just minutes but hours off reaction times, give massively higher yields with some reactions..it just OWNS. I've still got to adapt the MW in such a way as to be able to run some plumbing through the sides and top, drill holes large enough for plastic tubing with high thermal resistance, and for a condenser to poke out of the top, plus of course, microwave shielding to prevent MW energy irradiating the surrounding area. I don't want all my electronic lab gizmos fried to a crisp and my eyeballs and brain boiled in their skull from the inside out. No, thank, you. Nor, do I particularly want me nadgers microwaved and broiled in their own juices until I'm left with a pair of stop-nads where my gonads used to be.
