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Patreon preview - the science of brake fluid and pool chlorine

Got a new video coming up and i'd like your opinion. It's still a work in progress so let me know if there is anything more you would like to see.

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Good old video Nurdrage. Never really new about those micromolecules.

Daniel Blake Shoemaker

Seeing as there's a new video, unlikely Nurdy will get around to answering these chem-type questions here, so i'll give it a go. @Chris Armour, also Sac ...: Hydrocarbons (i.e. organics) are mainly carbon and hydrogen. If you can get them to burn, the hydrogen and everything else escapes and you end up with mainly carbon. I did some PVC pyrolysis and got all sorts of gas products, finally ending up with a lump of carbon. @The Gayest ..: They tend to burn at low temperatures (<1000C) so they're no good for thermite. @Goodwine: There are other procedures to produce those breakdown products 'cleanly' - this is not one of them, the reaction goes too ape too fast and everything escapes in a big mess of flamable gas. @Dom Vasta : there are reactions that get hot with things like cooking oil, such as the very rapid polymerisation with sulphur dichloride, but not enough heat is produced to reliably get a flame. The reactions Nerdy showed us were probably chosen because a) the calculations say they should work, and b) they worked.


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