I am....in the field of chemistry, organic mostly but where needed I make my own inorganic reagents, such as for example, iodine monochloride, chromyl chloride, nitric acid and other such sundries as and when needed.
I...well its what I do, and what I do best. And its a job I enjoy. Nothing quite like spending a mad time in the morning all nighter getting one's hands dirty with the glassware and the cauldrons of bubbling witches' brews and ornery little buggers kept trapped under their various inert conditions that otherwise would just love to burst into flames, or blast themselves through the ceiling (things like white phosphorus, a brick of sodium metal, big tubs of red phosphorus, and the volatile, nasty reactive stuff like ICl, ICl3, bromine in concentrated sulfuric acid, CrO2Cl2, SOCl2, fuming nitric acid etc.) And of course the obligatory volatile solvents, ether, THF, diisopropyl ether, MeOH, and 'touchy' stuff like hydrides (water sensitive and prone to bouts of extreme violence given half a chance)
I've not decided what to work on for today though, although I've got my ideas alright.
I love nothing better than getting busy tinkering away at my 'little' hobby
