SellaTheChemistHello chemists! Do any of you have experience of growing #crystals of sulfur? I'm helping an artist to grow some - does anyone have a suggestions for strategies for getting blocks? #chemistry #sulphur #Sulfur #nfernuveru
Mathias Micheel@sellathechemist crystals like in rhombic sulfur (= hard) or like in monoclinic (needles and easy)? I've read the best way to grow rhombic sulfur crystals is via CS2, so I'd avoid it at all costs...
@buerviper Ha! I used to do the famous "Bellender Hund" demonstration (see my profile pic) that Liebig made (in)famous. An astonishing, wild demo that plays with every one of our senses. It typically resulted in my being splattered in a mixture of CS2 and nitric acid (especially the times I did that 3m tube at the Apollo Hammersmith). And a good lungful of NOx for good measure before, and SO2 after.
CS2 is rumoured to smell sweet when *very* pure. 😜
We'll try, of course.
Cc: @FaithfullJohn
@buerviper PS I see you've got Thuringian warming stripes in your profile. One day I want to go and search for the prehistory of scientific glassblowing around Ilmenau and such like to seek out the ghosts of Geissler, Baumbach, Greiner and Friedrichs, etc. #ClassicKit
@sellathechemist now I feel bad I never cared about any of that in.the 9 years I've been living here😅
@buerviper Well, I've obsessed about #ClassicKit for some time. If you go back enough, scientific glassblowing always seems to end up back to the Glasshütten in Thuringia.