I’ll take success where I can find it

Surely there are few things which look better on a resume that being able to say you successfully isolated caffeine and sublimated it into a nearly pure sample.

Which I did.

And, even if you’re not a chemistry geek, you would have to admit that watching a solid sublimate is pretty cool.

So, what does one do with .0035 grams of pure caffeine that took you 5 hours over two weeks to isolate and purify?

You throw it away.