
plural system in Seattle, WA (b. 1974)
lots of fictives from lots of media, some horses, some dragons, I dunno. the Pnictogen Wing is poorly mapped.
host: Mx. Kris Dreemurr (they/them)
chief messenger and usual front: Mx. Chara or Χαρά (they/them)
other members:
Mx. Frisk, historian (they/them)
Monophylos Fortikos, unicorn (he/him)
Kel the Purple, smol derg (xe/xem)
Pim the Dragon, Kel's sister (she/her)
uh, what prompted this? did they report some inability to smell a mercaptan or H2S in a video? ~Chara
on a cursory search it's unclear how broad spectrum the olefactory fatigue is but it's possible his numbness to the thioacetone was from small amounts of the hydrogen sulfide for the reaction escaping the fume hood during his twelve hours of sitting there babysitting the reaction to completion
I'm a little shocked that this fellow doesn't know the simple way to obtain H2S gas in quantity from sulfur: mix it with paraffin or tallow and heat it, whence "sulphuretted hydrogen" bubbles out of the mixture and stops once the heat's removed. it's a lot more convenient than fussing about with FeS.
also...why not use Lawesson's reagent for this? messing about with H2S seems...unnecessary.
yeah if you don't mind my breaking in, I am not impressed—like, yeah, I get this guy's performing for YouTube, but I was able to find three more promising ways to make thioacetone that are almost certainly more convenient than the one he chose, so...why is he not trying to use P4S10 or Lawesson's reagent or something like that? how could he not know about those things? those are the standard laboratory reagents for thionation of ketones.
especially because he just wants to see what it smells like. why not do a micro-scale reaction?
damn cowboy chemists
~Alyx