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Many thanks, I will be updating this thread for everyones curiosity.

Anyone know of a reference for labratory glassware? Hopefully one that gives names and uses. I'm helping inventory a lab and there are drawers upon drawers of old mysterious glassware. Google failed me. Help is appreciated. Cheers!

Living in Canada, I also have a tough time finding chemicals. I find most of them in Chinatown. Most of the shops are independantly owned and often family run so they don't have the same stigma toward selling the "meth/bomb making" chemicals that corporate stores will. Here's a list of some chemicals I use and where I get them from. NaNO3 can be bought under the name "Nitre" in grocery stores for about $0.01/g HCl can be bought from any Canadian Tire in the paint section for ~$3/L Sulphuric Acid can be bought from some hardware stores but it really is tough to find. Lithium Metal can be extracted from Certain types of batteries. I've never tried this and can't attest to how dangerous or safe it is. 30% H2O2 can be bought from many health food stores for ~$5-10/L and of course you can build a makeshift hoffman apparatus for H2 and O2

Are you trying to get dirt out of the bottle like a residue or are you trying to steralize it?

I have been trying to make HNO3 for a while now using NaNO3 and copper metal. I'm not sure about my method. I've been making CuNO3 and heating it and bubbling the gasses through distilled water. I chose the CuNO3 simply because the first time I made it, I saw that it decomposes pretty quickly when heated while testing some of its properties. Advice? I have all my high school chemistry credits and hoping to study in post secondary.