Hi Friends, A humble request to all who use thermocol….. When you use thermocol for your craft, make sure you dispose off thermocol in a safe way. Thermocol releases poisonous gases like all other plastics when burnt. So, do not burn thermocol. I generally dissolve thermocol in petrol and dispose it off. Around 200ml of petrol is sufficient to dissolve a big sheet of thermocol. I still use thermocol because, thermocol is very good for making crafts, and you can carve any shapes as wood does. In this way you can utilise all the waste thermocol that comes to your home in deliveries as packaging materials. Thermocol is made of polystyrene, which is a long chain of carbons that has a phenyl (benzene, C6H5) group coming attached to every other carbon (so on carbon 1,3,5 etc.). It's molecular formula is (C8H8)n, where n is a big number since it's a polymer (many molecules chained together). Petrol (gasoline) is mixture of hydrocarbons with the formula C(n)H(2n+2). Usually the molecules have 8 carbons (or so), so we can just say its formula is C8H18. So when petrol and thermocol mix, no reaction happens. but, the thermocol will dissolve in the petrol. You can try it……. Thanks.
Hi Friends,
A humble request to all who use thermocol…..
When you use thermocol for your craft, make sure you dispose off thermocol in a safe way. Thermocol releases poisonous gases like all other plastics when burnt. So, do not burn thermocol.
I generally dissolve thermocol in petrol and dispose it off. Around 200ml of petrol is sufficient to dissolve a big sheet of thermocol.
I still use thermocol because, thermocol is very good for making crafts, and you can carve any shapes as wood does. In this way you can utilise all the waste thermocol that comes to your home in deliveries as packaging materials.
Thermocol is made of polystyrene, which is a long chain of carbons that has a phenyl (benzene, C6H5) group coming attached to every other carbon (so on carbon 1,3,5 etc.). It's molecular formula is (C8H8)n, where n is a big number since it's a polymer (many molecules chained together).
Petrol (gasoline) is mixture of hydrocarbons with the formula C(n)H(2n+2). Usually the molecules have 8 carbons (or so), so we can just say its formula is C8H18.
So when petrol and thermocol mix, no reaction happens. but, the thermocol will dissolve in the petrol.
You can try it…….
Thanks.
Very nice I will try my daughter 1st birthday..
Bro can you make for me also
What is the name of this thermocol i mean what I have say to shopkeeper to buy this thermocol
Just ask thermocol for craft. Every shopkeeper knows this. 😊