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- KNOCK-OUT DROPS
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- Cloral Hydrate (Knock-out Drops)
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- Chemicals: Equiptment:
- Bleach Distilling Set (see below)
- Sani-Flush Clorine Bottle
- Ethyl Alcohol Glass Tubing
- Sulfuric Acid Rubber Tubing
- Calcium Oxide Aquarium Aerator
- Basting Syringe
- Cooking Thermometer
- 600 ml Beaker
- Water Glass
- ______ _______
- / \_/ \___
- _/ ||| \ Bucket of ice water
- | | ||| _____\ _____ |
- /--|_| / | \ | \ | ____________/
- / / o \ | \ |
- Bleach |_____| |________\___| To outside
- & \ _________ /
- Saniflush | \__/
- 600 ml | |
- w/ aerator |__| __Collection
- Glass
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- A piece of glass is fitted into the bottom of the stopper for the flask. To
- that is placed an eight-inch length of rubber tubing and at the end of this is
- the aerator. Two more pieces of glass is put in the top of the stopper.
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- First, you will need pure alcohol so buy some 100
- proof vodka and distill it until you have about 12 oz.
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- Put the alcohol in the flask.Put about two inches of bleach and A teaspoon of
- Sani-Flush in the chlorine bottle. This will generate the clorine gas that you
- will need. Start the clorine through the alcohol while the flask is still
- cold.
- Watch it carefully to see when the alcohol stops absorbing the clorine. Then
- light a alcohol lamp and place it under the 600 ml flask. Keep the flame low
- until the alcohol stops absorbing again. Raise the flame and repeat. Continue
- this untill the alcohol is boiling. Some of the alcohol will distill off into
- the collection bottle. Several times during the process, pour this back into
- the 600 ml beaker.
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- When the alcohol is totally chlorinated the flask is poured into a
- porcelain dish and allowed to cool. If you have done this right the
- cooled product should be a crystaline mass of unrefined Cloral Hydrate.
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- Now, pour strong sulfuric acid, three times the volume of the
- Cloral Hydrate, into the pan. Place this pan on your stove over gentle
- heat. When the cloral hydrate is melted, it and the sulfuric acid are
- stirred throughly pour this into the flask and heat again. But this
- time use the thermometer and don't let it get over 200 F.
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- As the mixture heats up, the still impure cloral hydrate will rise
- to the surface. When it stops rising, use the basting syringe and draw
- the top off of the sulfuric acid. Repeat this until the pan is empty.
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- Put the cloral hydrate (you drew it off in the last step) into the
- beaker and heat at about 190 F. for 20 minutes. This will get rid of
- any alcohol or acid still in it. Pour this back into the flask and add
- an equal amount of sulfuric acid. Swirl this around to mix it.
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- Once again you must distill the mixture. But this time it is easy
- since the cloral hydrate will boil at 210 F and the sulfuric acid boils
- at 722 F. When finished pour out the acid, then wash and dry the flask.
- Now, put the powered Calcium Oxide, equal in volume to the cloral
- hydrate into the flask, add the cloral hydrate and distill again. Stop
- as soon as the surface of the oxide is dry.
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- To use, add one part water to two parts { by volume } of the
- finished product. The dose is 1/28th of an oz ( 1 gram ). The best way
- to use this is to put it into a mixed drink, because it has abitter
- taste. In about 15 minutes, whoever you gave it to is out for the night.
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- eof