@_thegeoff Still a good exercise though, I loved doing mine (had two different ones at the time, the 2nd being the extraction and quantification and differentiation of caffeine and theine), and learnt a lot from my setbacks too. Certainly confirmed my interest in it for further study, due in no small part to the teaching and support staff of the lab

@_thegeoff I can imagine e.g. it would be helpful if you didn't cause an explosion in the lab with some highly flammable evaporative solvents or poison your other class members with escaped gases from the laminar flow cupboard. Then again, perhaps these things have become slightly more difficult if there are restrictions on the types of reagents you can use today in a minor's education setting? Health and safety, etc?

@_thegeoff This was one of my O-level projects back in the day - good to see it still has traction!

@moonrabbit @mirabilos Ich schon!

@mirabilos @moonrabbit Today, I learned...thank you for the explanations!