phonon
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It looks like Xerxes17something clued in to what the DCA salesmen and Dave were talking about. They don't use a laser. They most likely shine a UV light on it. There are reactors like this. You have a big Pyrex tank, or vat if you wish, with a hole down the middle to house a big UV bulb. I guess they bubble chlorine through acetic acid while hitting it with UV light. But you get a mixture of products, as they speak of in the Wiki article. You probably have a mixture of carbon tetrachloride CCl4, chloroform CHCl3, and methylene chloride CH2Cl2 that have to be separated by distillation. This is likely what happens with TCA and DCA (and MCA presumably) and the mixture would have to be distilled.
Dave's next shopping list:
1. Big UV Lamp
2. 50 gallons acetic acid
3. Tank chlorine gas
4. Distillation column
5. Red Devil Lye
6. Test subjects
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