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  • The dose makes the poison. At the concentrations you’d get from household precursors, it would be fine.

    Now, take glacial acetic acid and treat it with high-concentration peroxide? Now you’ve got something there. But most people don’t have easy access to either.





  • This image is a reference to things like this, where you send dry (containing low water content) solvent through a column of activated alumina to make it even more dry.

    It doesn’t really work as well with some solvents. The one I used in grad school had DCM, toluene, THF, and acetonitrile. If we needed dry DMSO, DMF, DMAc, acetone, MEK, or alcohols they had to come from a sealed bottle.