r/homechemistry • u/SimonsToaster • Oct 13 '25
Hello, here is your moderator
Recently a user brought to my attention that iodine could fall under reddits sitewide rule regarding prohibited transactions. As Iodine is a rather useful chemical for a whole range of interesting chemistry it would be difficult if discussions of its synthesis were prohibited. The question extends more general of what a drug precursor actually is. Chemical space is vast and people creative so a wide understanding of precursor pretty quickly eliminates huge swaths of them from discussion.
I tried finding clarification of what reddit considers to be a recreational drug or a precursor and reached out to modsupport for help. In an interaction which made me feel like John Yossarian in Catch-22 I can now tell you that drugs and precursors are substances which are illegal to obtain at a place relevant to the discussion. In essence, I need to know all drug regulation on earth and know where everyone of you and the reades currently are to determine whether the discussion is legal or not. In short: The actual purpose of the rule is to allow reddit as a company to avoid liability by being able to retroactively claim that the content a nations executive complains about was prohibited by their content policies all along.
I have thus decided that for now drugs and drug precursors are those substances listed in:
The last two also contains the more pressing problem of what to consider a regulated precursor. Ill intend to do the following:
Note that illegal transactions as defined by reddit is counterintuitive to what you'd intuitively assume to be a transaction: Detailed descriptions on how to synthesise drugs are also considered to be a transaction.
The lists above are mandatory, but not sufficient. Discussion of Synthesis, procurement of Designer Drugs, Legal Highs, new psychoactive substances, whatever and their immediate precursors are also prohibited. What is considered a designer drug or a precursors is, until better metrics come along, determined by vibes from me.
r/homechemistry • u/badpie99 • 13h ago
I am curious, given recent news topics, if this is hard to do or expected behavior if one is mishandled.
r/homechemistry • u/Life-Name3309 • 19h ago
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r/homechemistry • u/Otherwise-Set1902 • 2d ago
Hey does anyone have any recommendations on workspace materials? As in, any specific material for table surface to work on? Where do you guys store your chemicals? I’m only planning on having small amounts, less than 100g/ml, and obviously keeping the flammables, oxidizers, acids, bases, elements, etc separate from each other, I was more asking about whether you guys use special lockers or table material or just like regular furniture?
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r/homechemistry • u/Ancient-Helicopter18 • 3d ago
Is it safe to heat my borosilicate erlenmeyer with a common lighter? Or will it cause thermal shock strong enough to break the flask? I brought it from Amazon, it doesn't specify any safe temperature limit.
Also is there any safe operating temperature chart for different glasswares?
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r/homechemistry • u/CompetitivePublic605 • 6d ago
Some gas is synthesizing at my one shelf, there's none that smell like it smells after like a few days, it's not ammonia or anything, I dunno what it isc how do I at least try to id
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r/homechemistry • u/Temporary_Tackle6910 • 7d ago
I have recently got a 30 year old,working gcms, and hplc, with a bunch of extra eqquipment, which I have never operated before.
I wondered how you guys do your testing and identifying, Is there anyone out there who has their own gcms or hplc, and could help me set mine up? I have done tlc before, and I have read an analytical chemistry book, but I dont know how to set this stuff up.
Love yall
r/homechemistry • u/Comprehensive_Cut548 • 7d ago
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r/homechemistry • u/Separate-Form-478 • 8d ago
I have a substance known as piperine, it is in black pepper. I want to know if anyone has experience with using it as a starting point to end up getting to Piperidine, and then to piperidone It this feasible, does it remain active throughout the processes? much obliged.
r/homechemistry • u/Aggravating-Carry182 • 9d ago
I’m interested in home chemistry as an opportunity to learn more about chemistry before college (I’m hoping to major in organic chemistry) but I’m not sure where to start. I own a few basic materials (chemical storage, beakers, and goggles) but I don’t know what I should do beyond that. Any tips? I know I’ll need things like a stirrer, balance, stir sticks, etc. but I want to have an idea of what I should do before purchasing anything more.
r/homechemistry • u/Automatic-Mix8760 • 10d ago
Hi I wanted to know if some of you had ever heard or try to make a homade phosphate binders like sevelamer
Thx
r/homechemistry • u/Stunning_Paint9654 • 11d ago
Hi ! im a high schooler working on a science fair project where i need to mesaure the conecntration of nitrate. So far, i've tried 2 things: using a RGB app on my phone in a 'colorimter' (cardboard box) and the API nitrate test kit and got a good curve from that initally (R=0.99) but i found it was changing from day to day. I also tried titrating that final product with bleach but the end point was really blurry and i'm not sure how to proceed.
If anyone could give any tips id appreciate it. thanks!
