• skillissuer
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    1 day ago

    they made juicero for backyard chemistry. for what this thing can do, all you need is thermometer, hotplate with magnetic stirrer + some standard glassware. this already avoids problems with damage to and leaching from plastics by corrosive solvents, allows for normal air-free techniques to be used (needs inert gas) and is several times cheaper. there are some weird design choices (if you are already using syringes, why not use syringe pump?? why use heat exchanger instead of putting heating element in water bath? etc etc) i’m yet to see procedures in human-readable form. there’s little emphasis on purification nevermind analytics. i guess they made daraprim only because nurdrage did multipart instructional video on it