Docs Nov '09 - Questions

Yeah know...now I see why parents are scared shitless today when raising there children!!!

Step 1:
Handling chloroform.

• Chloroform should always be handled by qualified persons or under qualified supervision.
  
• Children and pets should NEVER be allowed to come close to the [color:40d5=blue ! important][color:40d5=blue ! important]chemical.
  
• Always wear protective gear and follow safety practices when handling chloroform.
  
• Chloroform reacts with oxygen to make phosgene, a chemical gas
  which when consumed causes irreparable damage to your body organs.
  Chloroform also turns into phosgene faster under direct sunlight
  (radiation).
  

Step 2:
Storing chloroform. If chloroform needs to be stored, the following precautions are necessary:

• Always store in an amber or brown glass bottle and NOT in plastic or metal containers
  
• To store all the way up to the top
  
• To store it for not longer than a week as it will start decomposing.
  
• Never inhale chloroform made in the manner given below.
  

Step 3:
Making chloroform. To make chloroform, you will require the following ingredients:

• Bleach
  
• Pure acetone, which is available at hardware stores
  
• Ice
  
• Glassware, which will allow [color:40d5=blue ! important][color:40d5=blue ! important]clear [color:40d5=blue ! important]vision of the solution inside
  
• Separation funnel
  

Step 4:
Making the chloroform.
Wear protective gear like goggles, gloves, etc to ensure you are well
protected. The instructions to make chloroform are listed in an
easy-to-follow bulleted list:

• Start by filling up a glass container with half a liter of bleach
  
• Lower the temperature of the bleach solution by adding ice also into the container and allowing it to cool.
  
• Pour 10 ml of the acetone (to maintain a ratio of 1: 50, one part acetone to fifty parts of bleach) into the container.
  
• Add some more ice to keep the temperature low. Replacing the cubes
  that have already melted will ensure this. The bleach must be kept cool
  as otherwise it will emit fumes of bleach and chloroform.
  
• Keep aside for 20 minutes to ensure complete reaction. In a while clouding up can be seen with an increase in temperature.
  
• Allow time for the reaction to settle. This will take about half an
  hour, but if after this time also the solution does not appear to be
  settling, a stir will help.
  
• Once settled, you will see either be a white powder residue or a bubble at the bottom. This is chloroform.
  
• Pour the solution out with care ensuring that no powder or bubble leaves the container.
  
• Now, the pure chloroform, which remains in the glass container, can be extracted with a separation funnel.
  

Ideally, this article
should be read for academic interest only. Avoid trying to make this
chemical compound at home or anywhere else, unless you are authorized
to do so and you follow established procedures and guidelines relating
to usage of chemical, safety, etc. Making chloroform is discouraged as
the hazards of exposure to phosgene, used in chemical weapons, can be
painfully fatal.

Why don't they just put this right next to the directions on how to make crystal meth!!! which by the way, there are also directions on "How to make" on the internet!!!

So if she made chloroform she would have had plenty of time to think about what she was about to do and change her mind.

This is the MSDS on Chloroform
http://polymer.matscieng.sunysb.edu/msds/chloroform.pdf

The MSDS is required for every chemical make up in this country all available online. Very few people know about this unless you deal with chemicals on a routine bases as we do, I am required to log everything purchased, sprayed, location etc. also have a statewide list we receive every quarter of people and areas that have to be notified 48 hrs before spraying can happen with a 1 mile radius of there home.

Hope this helps

momgot2kids wrote:This is the MSDS on Chloroform
http://polymer.matscieng.sunysb.edu/msds/chloroform.pdf

The MSDS is required for every chemical make up in this country all available online. Very few people know about this unless you deal with chemicals on a routine bases as we do, I am required to log everything purchased, sprayed, location etc. also have a statewide list we receive every quarter of people and areas that have to be notified 48 hrs before spraying can happen with a 1 mile radius of there home.

Hope this helps

The MSDS says that it reacts with metal...I wonder if Casey spilled it in the trunk if there was any corrosion found when the carpet was pulled up in the trunk of the car?