Glass wear is 100 ml same oven it s dried in At the same time
same everything Same brand mantels same glass size and after 3 runs you’d think a hick up would be on the light side maybe
The dark is always better
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Ok check this
I place a clear glasses bottle With chloroform in the sun for 15 min I then take the bottle
Inside I do an rxn it s diffrent than
Chloroform used from a cabinet in dark glass
This is a mistake I made in blotter times
Chloroform will hold on to uv light for about 1 hour and wreck a reaction if it s UV sensitive
Think I should try that With a solvent that holds on to UV a bit
Or place a ivm lamp next to a isomerization and see if the discrepancy between rxn rises 
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LSD lab lighting sounds pretty trippy man
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A man 
Roger rabbit 
Those friggin holes
By the way my findings are on ethanol and heptane as solvent reactions
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Yeah doesn’t CHCl3 make phosgene when exposed to UV and not stabilized with an alcohol?
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Yes, it does. @SidViscous
I never knew that solvents have the capacity to store energy from UV radiation. I remember reading that magnetic fields can have an lasting effect on water due to the way treatment with magnetism decreases the hydrogen bond angle of the water molecules.
@Roguelab what brought you to the conclusion that energy was being stored in the chloroform from uv light and not some kind of degradation of the chloroform into a more reactive chemical?
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Diggin the new pic @ScoobyDoobie
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I disagree with the idea that the solvent has stored energy. As was mentioned, phosgene can be created by irradiating chlorinated solvents. This would be the most likely reason for a change in the reaction.
The time scales for light absorption/emission events is VERY short for most materials. Phosphorescence is generally the longest and that is still measured in just dozens or hundreds of seconds. And that is generally for metal containing stuff or at cold temps.
If the energy isn’t released as a photon, then it is pretty much just going to cause the molecule to vibrate to release the energy as heat.
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First of all the example I used of chloroform
Was discovered in the making of lsd
I will look up the synthesis and place that step
As well as 2 papers we found at the time that explain the workings
Lsd is highly light sensitive cannabinoids are not but there is something gooing on in the rxn that seems to be light sensitive don t think it s the storage of solvents think it s yust the
Rxn it self beeing light sensitive
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Aww, @Ennui… you noticed! Shucks! 
Yes, @Roguelab, UV-C (shortwave), in particular, can have a deleterious effect on cannabinoids, especially in addition to thermal energy. However, there is not enough UV-C in a typical environment (not even outdoors on a sunny day) to make much difference… especially not through borosilicate, and more especially not through thick vacuum-safe glassware.
I certainly believe you could be seeing a statistically significant difference between your results from metal versus glass systems, but I don’t think light is the cause. I would have to know more about the conditions and systems to make a better guess.
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You might be talking about free radical proliferation. It is ostensibly possible for free radicals (such as those which might form by the ionization capacity of UV radiation on many molecules and atoms) to be “stored” in a polar solvent (chloroform and DCM are examples of aprotic organic polar solvents).
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So to have an innert lining I chose
HALAR. Wich is a ptfe polymer coating
I ll keep an update of how it works
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What’s the red part on top?
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Magnetic overhead mixer coupler
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O that jacketed piece was a small reactor on it s own and it had this stirring device set Wich is quiet interesting it s a ceramic bearing with magnets attached and when placed on a magnet mixer it works quiet well not sure how to replicate but might be a thing to somebody
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I’ve always wondered about darkroom experiments done for cannabinoids. Because cannabinoids are light sensitive I’d figure doing even a rotovap session under a dark room setting would have a cleaner result than standardized lab lighting.
You should do a darkroom experiment for diamonds.
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Simply use amber glass flasks for the rotovap.
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Maybe a triple comparison between amber glass, regular glass and a dark room.
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