Anyone want some Potassium Dichromate?

So I can't spell :q (but you already know that) One day I'd like to mix another chemical with it to get a big chemical reaction.

Skew..., yep my stuff.
AlexS, While renovating an old house that had a large darkroom, I found three bottles of this stuff.
Waldo,
If you want to try something with a big reaction, take some rust and mix it with white vinegar. Take a bit of steel wool and wet it, in a few days it will be a pile of rust. Mix that with the vinegar and try it on Black Walnut or Oak and see what happens.

I would say it would turn it near black. I put wood in a rusty 44 full of water and it turned black.

You're right glennk - it would turn black.
But thinned way out with distilled water one can get a silver-like stain on Oak.
George Frank called it 'liquid nightmare' and called its use on Black Walnut, "poor Man's Ebony".

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Originally Posted by rightendup

Skew..., yep my stuff.
AlexS, While renovating an old house that had a large darkroom, I found three bottles of this stuff.
Waldo,
If you want to try something with a big reaction, take some rust and mix it with white vinegar. Take a bit of steel wool and wet it, in a few days it will be a pile of rust. Mix that with the vinegar and try it on Black Walnut or Oak and see what happens.

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Sounds like Liquid Nightmare.