cooldude9111
Greenlighter
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- Feb 12, 2014
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@Dudeabides and perpetualdawn, can I move your posts to create a new thread and/or merge it into another thread where it would be on-topic? I'm positive you are not the first to have this argument plus it is off-topic in this thread. Also the thread we are in now is carefully monitored for a few reasons / there are strict rules about it that have to do with the no ID thread rule among other things.
By colored alcohol (ethanol to be specific regarding which alcohol) they mean the kind that is denatured (should be on the label) meaning they added other chemicals to the alcohol to render it undrinkable, and a dye to warn about the undrinkability. The price should also be an indication, denatured alcohol should have the price of a cleaning agent (low) while potable alcohol has the price of liquor (high).
You could also probably substitute with say isopropanol, another kind of alcohol that does not get the same treatment as denatured ethanol.
How much solvent? This looks fine for example:
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No plastic spoon or even metal. In your post it says Marquis reagent contains sulfuric acid, well that that oxidize iron to rust making it brown or black, and I'm surprised they used plastic on pillreports.com as IMO it could also mess up some kinds of plastics I think. A glass vial like in the pic above would be ideal, try to improvize to approximate it. The thin tall shape is ideal because if you look at the liquid in such a vial from the top down, the larger the distance you look through the liquid the better. Perceived coloration 'adds up', you see color best through a thick layer.
Well I just tried this last night.... Absolutely nothing happened... no color change at all in the small amount of alcohol that i put in the vial.... I guess my best bet is just to do a straight up marquis directly on the paper blotter itself ... I have no other choice....