New book!

A book arrived addressed to the metal company that has moved some 10 years ago. Since nobody wanted it and it was too thick to be of any use to stabelize an offset cabinet, I was allowed to take it home: a real Alfa Aesar Research Chemicals, Metals and Materials catalogue 2008-09!

[ I wonder what happened to the 2007-08 catalogue... ]

There are 2714 other pages just like this one...

I'm now practising really hard to fluently pronounce all of the elements, such as:

• Methylanilinium trifluoroacetate (99%)
• Cyanomethylphosphoninic acid diisopropyl ester (see diisopropyl cyanomethylphosphonate)
• 4-(1H-Tetrazol-5-ylmethyl)2H-1,4-benzothiazin-3(4H)-one
• Allytriphenylphosphonium bromide (available in 50 or 250 gram quantities)

Be warned, I'll try so slip some of these names casually into conversations from now on.

[ what's that smell, reminds me of dihydrogen hexabromoplatinate nonahdrate... ]