Re: [biofuel] NaOH moisture protection
- Original Message - From: Jonathan Pennington [EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] I guess my worry is that it will absorb significant amounts of water vapor while I'm measuring it for the methoxide. Jonathan, I'm from Tropical North Queensland Oz where the humidity seldom dips below 90%. Weighing out reagent grade pellets sees a slick of moisture develope on them. Have a 10kg pail of NaOH for BD production which is almost empty. NaOH is in form of pearls, no problem with moisture absorption. Just be quick with your weighing, leaving your bulk supply exposed to the moist air for as short a time as possible. Could help to mark up your weighing vessel to approx weights so as to speed the process. Suspect that these pearls might have a thin coating of wax or something to protect them from moist air. Regards, Paul Gobert. -J * Martin Klingensmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020421 09:48]: Have you tried putting it in a sealed container? Has anyone tried storing lye in oil to prevent it from absorbing moisture? -- Jonathan Pennington | [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's hard to take life too seriously when you realize yours is a joke. -original Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please do NOT send unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Buy Stock for $4 and no minimums. FREE Money 2002. http://us.click.yahoo.com/k6cvND/n97DAA/ySSFAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please do NOT send unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[biofuel] NaOH moisture protection
Has anyone tried storing lye in oil to prevent it from absorbing moisture? Here in Coastal South Carolina, USA, the humidity is 75% on a dry day. It might cause a problem when making the sodium methoxide, but then again, I'm still waiting on my supplies, so I haven't played with anything yet. Just a thought. -J -- Jonathan Pennington | [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's hard to take life too seriously when you realize yours is a joke. -original Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Buy Stock for $4 and no minimums. FREE Money 2002. http://us.click.yahoo.com/k6cvND/n97DAA/ySSFAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please do NOT send unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [biofuel] NaOH moisture protection
Have you tried putting it in a sealed container? --- Jonathan Pennington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone tried storing lye in oil to prevent it from absorbing moisture? Here in Coastal South Carolina, USA, the humidity is 75% on a dry day. It might cause a problem when making the sodium methoxide, but then again, I'm still waiting on my supplies, so I haven't played with anything yet. Just a thought. -J -- Jonathan Pennington | [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's hard to take life too seriously when you realize yours is a joke. -original Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please do NOT send unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ = -Martin Klingensmith http://archive.nnytech.net/ http://devzero.ath.cx/ http://www.nnytech.net/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more http://games.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Buy Stock for $4 and no minimums. FREE Money 2002. http://us.click.yahoo.com/k6cvND/n97DAA/ySSFAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please do NOT send unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [biofuel] NaOH moisture protection
I don't actually have it yet, it's still being shipped. I was just wondering about doing that. I guess my worry is that it will absorb significant amounts of water vapor while I'm measuring it for the methoxide. -J * Martin Klingensmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020421 09:48]: Have you tried putting it in a sealed container? Has anyone tried storing lye in oil to prevent it from absorbing moisture? -- Jonathan Pennington | [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's hard to take life too seriously when you realize yours is a joke. -original Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Buy Stock for $4 and no minimums. FREE Money 2002. http://us.click.yahoo.com/orkH0C/n97DAA/ySSFAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please do NOT send unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
