The catastrophic state of the catalyst iwth the sieve and the R311 copper catalyst sintered into chunks. What the hell went wrong?

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   SellaTheChemist (sellathechemist@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 06:11:43 JST SellaTheChemist

   Saturday. My glove box remains dead after a mysterious cockup while I was on holiday that caused one glove to be torn and the catalyst to sinter into multicoloured lumps. It doesn't get much worse than that!

   But after several abortive attempts to fix things, I woke up at 02;30 in a cold sweat about it. And then a possible solution dawned. So, back to the lab to try it out.
   That glovebox has run for 30 years on the same catalyst. I'd hate to lose it. #chemistry #InInsomniaConsilio