{"id":330,"date":"2005-11-11T13:51:01","date_gmt":"2005-11-11T13:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/2005\/11\/11\/stock-pot-chemistry\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T19:05:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T18:05:12","slug":"stock-pot-chemistry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.hellyer.kiwi\/ryanhellyer\/2005\/stock-pot-chemistry\/","title":{"rendered":"Stock pot chemistry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First came the number eight wire, now comes the stock pot \ud83d\ude1b We needed to scale up a reaction in the lab (potassium permanganate oxidation), so instead of repeating it a gazillion times, Sally suggested I got a big pot and scaled it up \ud83d\ude42 Since giant beakers from Aldrich cost a fortune (and break easily), I went and found the biggest, baddest, cheapest stock pot I could find at the Warehouse (NZ equivilent of Walmart), stuck a mechanical stirrer in it, heated the blazes out of it with a regular sized heater stirrer and we had a massive scale (by our standards) reaction vessel \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2007\/08\/stockpot.jpg\" title=\"Stock pot chemistry\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2007\/08\/stockpot.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Stock pot chemistry\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nick White helped me with some of this work as part of his summer project.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2007\/08\/nickstockpot.jpg\" title=\"Nick White and the stock pot\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2007\/08\/nickstockpot.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Nick White and the stock pot\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First came the number eight wire, now comes the stock pot \ud83d\ude1b We needed to scale up a reaction in the lab (potassium permanganate oxidation), so instead of repeating it a gazillion times, Sally suggested I got a big pot and scaled it up \ud83d\ude42 Since giant beakers from Aldrich cost a fortune (and break [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chemistry","last-post"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - 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