Funny coincidence... I found a paper next to a trash can at a gas station that referred to a couple of similar experiences recently... It interested me, as most things do, so I took it home and typed it out for future research planning to take the original to the local authorities, but Damn if I didn't lose it... Old age I guess... Anyway, here's some of what must have been notes or a research journal entry or some shit like that:
First 2 batches after takin a few months off:
First batch:
Bout 6 grams of generic red hots (simple fuel wash of pill mesh and decant) then gup chucked...
Normal reactants, Hexane, Li x3...
Li -> LI(NH3)4 just as smooth and easy as ever...
Observations upon addition of pill mass:
Fuel is dark and cloudy from li saturation, but never seems to achieve the thicker "chocolate milk" appearance expected when the pse bases...
After completely exhausting the Li/bronze:
The fuel remained dark and cloudy...took 5-10 min for the dark cloud mass to settle 1/2 way down the bottle... Never formed a the expected Li Amide distinct Gray Sandy looking top layer above the reactants...
Filtering:
Filters we're full of a of a lavender colored slime as the clear fuel was filtered...
Final product:
Potentcy was actually surprisingly pretty good - 7 out of 10
Purity was noticeably lower than expected... Color a little off when melted... Obvious black residue left as it burned up... 5 out of 10
Yield: expected about 4g ma... Ended with 3g... 5 out of 10
Second batch:
Same other than bout 3g pse and Li x2...
Maybe most beautiful TMS ever done... Fuel maintained with a nice light blue tint... Complete beautiful puddle of bronze mercury floating on the fuel...
Addition of pse...
Same issues as first batch but even more pronounced this time...
Potentcy - sucked - 5 out of 10
Purity - same issues as batch one with noticeable pinwheels throughout dried crystals and very slow to crack back when melted. 3 out of 10
Yield - expected about 1.9g ma... Ended with about 1.4g ma and pse - 4 out of 10
Just thought I would pass that along as it seemed to have some relavence... I guess the smart chem enthusiast would do nearly identical rxns...1 With gup chilucked and one extracted...
Personally, I am FAR more intrigued by the beez and the effs and the EssNbeez... My friend (or bff as the kids say now) sayz that the best trip experience she ever had was getting lost in the web chasing beez...wondering if it was a never ending rabbit hole or is she had simply imagined the trail she thought she was following in her state of delirium...
I was awed by brief communications and interaction with an uncle that I sadly didn't maintain contact with... I never could follow all of his technical writing, which was like poetry, but I guess that is to be expected without formal trading in the art of that cryptic language...
Maybe if I had been in a different circle a different time... who knows... So many mysteries and such a short life to acquire knowledge...
Y'all rock.