Turning styrofoam to everyone's favorite carcinogen, benzene!
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- In today's video I'm making benzene from the commonly found polymer Styrofoam aka polystyrene. By performing a series of chemical reactions such as pyrolysis and oxidation I was successfully able to make a small amount of benzene from OTC sources.
Warning performing the actions seen in this video can be dangerous. Pyrolysis oil is carcinogenic, benzene is also carcinogenic and potassium permanganate is a strong oxidizer.
Enjoy! :)
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Your videos are truly awesome and interesting for an undergrad chemist like me. I know you are experienced but please be careful when synthesizing these carcinogenic compounds!
From polystyrene to prob'lystyrene!
You are just CHURNING out these videos! Super excited to see lots of content like this.
finished summer classes so I have had about 3 weeks to GRIND I go back the 20th which limits me to videos only on some weekends! making the use of my time while I can!
@@PyrotechnicalScience yeah, understood! Maybe make a couple extra videos to release later as a backup. I know the algorithm likes the consistency.
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Only watched part of three and reviewed titles, as for comment, well I have cancers and fugged around maybe found out, also like many clinicians biochemistry organic genetics pharmacstarted with 💥 🧨 also. Set buildings on fire overdosed, burned been in explosions shed skin to living. Knock on effects of third world diseases not cause and effect as saw lost family child, terrorized but. Lik any caring remark, take it for what’s intended. I think it’s kind, wish avoided others students coworkers errors, horrendous environmental crimes humanitarian mass murders, tiananmen genocides war. If someone says mind self….check dates on gift chems, not hurting. I welcomed folks if thought sincere, half undergrad finding equine fentanylogues or making as none to be had of two, research first Tx undergrad. Only because others knew accent was fir bell on earth, reading over shoulder. Suggestions, caught folks knew better do unthinkable occasionally self. We all know grinning deaths coming but, at end you’ll think of master works, solve fentanyl crisis as if let. Text warn youth, not of death or bring a tissue culture line. Seen minor errors and worrisome, clever lads learn!
This is the shit that I'm trying to see. Thank you for the content - and just being yourself.
Huge props for pushing through this nightmare of a video, it was definitely fun to see another route to our precious benzene
What the heck you wanna do with the benzene ??
From what I've tried out to not have to deal with the nightmare that is the solidified mass of polystyrene, dissolving it then laying it out on large sheets of baking paper and waiting for the acetone to evaporate gives you somewhat easy to deal with sheet like material. make sure to spread it out kinda thin cause then you can cut it up into pieces later with like a hacksaw or something.
This is my new favorite chem channel!!!
Such good videos, thank you for keeping it science and chemistry related. I'm not a chemist, but I am an engineer and love these. Thanks for teaching at a level thats high enough for someone like me to enjoy!
Thank you! I try my best to make it good for both people knowledgeable in the field and not knowledge in the field, which can be hard sometimes!
I'm so happy I found your channel
I think it’s good for people to see where sodium benzoate, a common food preservative, can be derive from LOL
It's alright, my friend. Spilling while pouring is common. I understood your effort to distill pure Benzene. However, nice video presentation and I loved this chemistry experiment. Friend, you're creative!
Oh yeah. Benzene is back. Thanks for the video.
I haaaaaate manganese dioxide 🤣🤣
Great video man totally love the procedure!
I appreciate it! I just got a new pyrolysis setup and definitively want to try this again and not get yellow benzene lol
I didint even think that was possible wow good job
Yellow benzene is definitely the best benzene
has the power of piss and benzene in one!
Also, for higher temperature distillations id recommend a digital thermometer setup, which can be easily made with a K type thermocouple, an NMR tube (or similar size glass tube) and some sort of thermally conducting substance (like thermal paste or something) to make the thermocouple have a better thermal conductance.
there is still this smell, the cat wanted to speak out about this.
Hey, I've got a giant jug of permanganate too! Bought 10lbs maybe 15 years ago. I still have like 8lbs.
oxidations for dayssssssss
@@PyrotechnicalScience days and dayssssss
Cu is catalyst but not in distilling styrene 🤣
I like the way styrene defracts up the light 🌈✨️
But mine came out clear and colourless though I used a paint tin as a boiling flask and didn't add any copper 😜
Making benzene from aspirin would be interesting to see. And probably not too difficult, I imagine.
Mix some copper oxide and some calcium or barium oxide as a catalyst and you will get mostly benzene. If you want mostly syrene add copper oxide on titanium dioxide make by precipitating copper on titanium dioxide vac filtering and then roasting the filter cake till it turns black.
*Came for the cancer, stayed for the singing.*
Shouldn't phenylacetic acid be the product of the oxidation of styrene instead of benzoic acid? I mean styrene has 2 carbons and benzoic acid acid just 1. Thats why you het benzoic acid from toluene. Just asking I'm not an expert
REMEMBER BENZENE? IT'S BACK!
benzine is back baby!
What other oxidents could be used instead of KMnO4 ?
The pink colour may be from the oxidation state of manganse
Benzene, it's back!
Manganese chloride is pink.. At 15:00
I don't think it's very safe to be touching that with your bear hand😅
Can you do this chemical reaction to Teflon to fluorocarbon oil/fractions?😊
'copper' is just colorized teflon. Your polymer goop > teflon
Yummy fluorocarbon catalyst
Awesome channel.
The copper being heated at high temperature especially since they such thin slices of the copper
pink maybe cuz MnCl2
Ahhh thank you chosen one!
@@PyrotechnicalScience wuwwu!!
Are you on any other platforms if so could you link to them just in case UA-cam pulls a UA-cam
Odysee, I have the links in my descriptions
Is there a way I can get in contact with you? I have some information you would find very interesting.
Rereading this it sounds like some scam of "you're a hotel rewards member" or "renew your car warranty" hahah
I have information regarding specific reactions about what you're doing. I have tons of information. Great work and great video. I hope we can get in contact.
May be a stupid question but .. wouldn't that have then been converted to benzaldehyde
potassium permanganate will oxidize it all the way to benzoic acid.
I love Benzene
Chemical soup, yummy.
Any idea why the stuff that came over was orange? Obviously some aromatic, but which one? Must have an extended pi system / some degree of conjugation.
No clue, heat and organics can make so many different compounds without a analytical lab I couldn’t tell ya sadly!
@@PyrotechnicalScience Yeah, 400C gets all kinds of shit going. What's your educational background btw?
chem major, got like 6 classes left and then I’m done!
i think i read somewhere that it can be made by compression of acetylene.
Think you can just pass it through a tube furnace at a very high temperature to get benzene.
@@PyrotechnicalScience i brought this up, because i found calcium carbide fascinating for it's use to light caves for miners, and explorers. i think it was wiki that mentioned it.
BENZENE !
That was a lot of KMnO4
Wait why did you change the potassium benzoate into sodium benzoate
because there was so much water it was easier to precipitate it and filter it instead of boiling it down, and I just had sodium hydroxide on hand to convert it back to the salt form.
Hope that helps!
Where did you get that chart at 7: 38
This paper here: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7827018/#:~:text=Thus%2C%20it%20becomes%20very%20important,weight%20liquid%20and%20gaseous%20products.
Why not use phenol? Distillation of phenol in the presence of Zn metal affords benzene.
That’s also possible! But phenol is usually a harder chemical to come across.
@@PyrotechnicalScience decarboxylation of asperin. You can even perform this reaction in glass no problem. To me, it's the best method. Low cost, low risk of glass damage.
@@PyrotechnicalScience also, phenol isn't a carcinogen like styrene. If you're technically desperate you can extract phenol from throat spray.
True definitely a feasible route, probably better in terms of yields and work.
@@PyrotechnicalScience if not, at least it's a yeld of a video or 2
Imma jus watch you when nilered doesn't upload
Cool
I must know the lore, without fail you comment cool on every video!
I love it, but why just cool lol
Benzene 😋
YELLOOOOOOOW?!?😂
I would love to see an in depth video about toxic chemicals like benzene. I and many others are exposed to it at work and I would like to learn more about it
Uhhh OSHA where ya at… you shouldn’t be exposed to like any benzene at work, couple short term exposures are one thing but going to work every day and being exposed can have some very bad consequences.
@@PyrotechnicalScience It's in gasoline. Anyone who works on cars is exposed to it. It's in crude oil and a significant (up to 2 percent) component of gasoline. I used a product yesterday that contained benzene, xylene, and other notable carcinogenic solvents if i'm not mistaken. I could tell it was dangerous just by the smell. It is listed on the can but most people using these things don't read the labels