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By Theodore Gray Posted 8.29.12 at 11:26 am 1 Comments

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Grinding

Mike Walker

I ground up the pills with a mortar and pestle.

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Read the article: Gray Matter: Extracting Bismuth From Pepto-Bismol Tablets

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The_Enantiomer

11/30/12 at 12:52 pm

So, what do further experiments are you planning with your sample of Bismuth? I'm not much familiar with the chemistry of metals, being an organic chemist myself.

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