Recently I’m working on some hot hot hot reaction and I needed something fast to monitor the heat, what better excuse to buy another toy??? I’ve got a seek thermal camera for my iphone (http://thermal.com/see_the_unseen.html), pretty cheap and extremely simple to use.
Now the main question: is it working?
I should say, I’m pretty impressed by it. For its price is quite amazing (again, I’m not getting paid by them :) )
Pictures pictures pictures:
A beautiful rotavap, you can clearly recognize the bath, the hot pump and the cold parts for the collection of the solvents.
Most important things in a fumehood, a reaction refluxing, a 5L DCM (the handle is warm as someone was using it) and a packing silica column.
Back in the office with my macbook, still the heat from my arms and a freshly laser printed papers on the left. This is probably the meaning of “hot papers”….
One of the first lesson that you lear when you enter in a lab is that a cold flask looks the same as a hot flask. Not anymore!!! You can also see the heat transfer where the flasks touch.
Oh, and I almost forget…. You can make video as well :)
Is your heating plate working?
Or you can make beautiful drawing with acetone and then wait for the evaporation:
Or maybe you just want to drop a pellet of NaOH in concentrated HCl…..
At the end of the day the seek thermal camera is an extremely nice toy to have in the lab. Hopefully sooner or later you will also see the use in one of my future paper :)
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