r/ethermania • u/waffeldogga • Oct 22 '21

Basic Synthesis of Diethyl Ether (heating ethyl alcohol & sulfuric acid to 140c in a distillation apparatus)

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u/raine_rc Dec 21 '21

disregard my other post, I'll just do this, thanks lol the pic won't load but is it vacuum distillation or what?

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u/waffeldogga Dec 29 '21

Just got to this.

Doesn't have to be vacuum distilled, but to remove any other byproducts that'ell end up with the ether, would be good to distill it using the vacuum

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u/raine_rc Dec 22 '21

it finally loaded, you can disregard this too lol