Formic and Sulfuric explained.
Long rant again, so sorry - for folks with attention spans longer tham 8 seconds.
Okay. The folks who managed to mentally parse this CO-generation process on this thread all seem to be gone - the ones who didn't, or didn't manage to get the acids (why?) are still here ? Or not ? Whatever. I'll post a setup with photos over this coming weekend, but first want to make a few things clear.
You do not need twice the amount of sulfuric that you need of formic - only when you use the setup the Australian guy on the GULPS video shows.
This is because the setup is a bit fragile, and they only move the glass containing the acids very conservatively.
The H2SO4 is heavier than the Formic, and hesitates to thoroughly mix, it "passes though" the formic and sinks down, ceasing to react.
If you mixed them in a shaker, a thorough mix would be easy, capisce ?
Also, the water content of either acid is irrelevant if you thoroughly mix... you could use 38% battery acid and 55% formic for beehives and still get enough CO, the reaction would take longer and you would have to make sure to constantly move the liquids, that's all.
Water is in the acids you buy, and there's water being produced by the reaction, no way around it. It will eventually slow down the reaction a lot, but hardly fully shut it off. So you need to mix, and the mix shown here is very rudimentary. Just saying... best to have high concentrations of course.
Our Australian chaps are trying to keep it simple, right ?
What they actually say - even if it sounds different - is that by mixing 50ml each of both acids thoroughly, you can generate 16 liters of CO.
Don't be irritated by them using 150ml of sulfuric, that's only because their way of use they have decided on here - I will use a method without sny breathing apparatuses, and my setup will be bigger. However. Let's keep things simple and calculate with much security margin.
You get about 25 liters of CO by mixing 100 ml of both acids optimally, or 250 liters from mixing one liter each, or 2.5 hektoliters from mixing ten/ten, for which you would need a somewhat larger container... I already tested that with a 20; metal jerrycan. Works well !
CO will bind to your hemoglobin at least 200 times better than the oxygen in the air, so if you are in a space of 10 cubic meters, one cubic meter, which we'll equate with 100 liters for simplicity's sake, should do what ?
I'm having a migraine right now (not from thinking about CO!), so could any of you please try to follow my reasoning here and opine ?
Thank you.
I'll be back...
Oh, here's the video once again, for your convenience