Chlorinating urinal cakes

I got a new microphone (a Blue Yeti) and I love it. I also got a windscreen for it that should have been a suitable replacement for the pop filter I was using with my old microphone, but based on the audio recorded for this video, I don't think it works very well. The old pop filter's clamp doesn't fit the Blue Yeti, so I'm going to order another that does, which should improve the audio that I'll record for the next video.
In the final fractional distillation, after the first attempt went wrong, I heated the distillation flask more gradually, and it worked swimmingly.
I didn't bother weighing the unreacted p-DCB to factor into the calculations because of how much sublimated out of the condenser during the reaction.

[@anteck7goat]

I did not ever expect to watch a video on this topic. But yet I am here. Good work.

[@christopherleubner6633]

Pearlite, the white stuff used for potting soil helps a lot to prevent bumping. It is essentially silica but the structure gives lots of nucleation sites for even boiling.

[@daddyredbeard1462]

if i pee on the cake will it make mustard gas?

[@alllove1754]

Thank you. ❤ I can't believe I forgot the catalytic value of metal chlorides added to a chlorination run (!!) Thanks for that, and of course for your whole presentation. Stay safe!❤

[@ChemDungeon]

Of course :) They’re so well known for Friedel-Crafts alkylations/acylations that their usefulness in halogenation is sometimes forgotten. A classic, versatile type of catalyst 😆

[@alllove1754]

Keep it up❤ I love to learn.

[@guiladlevy3152]

10/10 title, I don't know anything about chemistry, and I sped run the video to try to understand where was the click bait . And I learned a lot , might forget tomorrow tho . Hajajajajajaja. urinal cake ....

[@ChemDungeon]

It’s an accurate title that also works as clickbait :D I’m glad you learned something!

[@luciferrshi]

i thought u were going to put chlorine in the urinal cakes so the ammonia from pissing on them will create chloramine gas. idk man lmao ima still watch it tho bc this shit is interesting edit: p.s. that bump trap looks like u can smoke a fat ass bowl with it. id clean it out perfectly right after but im jus saying.

[@b-rad3937]

Will you be posting more videos

[@ChemDungeon]

Yeah, I’m focusing on a series of reactions and this video is sort of the midpoint, I’ll have 2 more until I get to the final product. I have a list of video ideas other than this that I’ll be working on after this series winds down

[@mikegLXIVMM]

Can you make DDT?

[@ChemDungeon]

I think nilered already did (vid got taken down, there’s a reupload), but yeah sure I can do it too. Just gotta figure out a decent yielding choral synthesis

[@mikegLXIVMM]

@@ChemDungeon I got some Chloral Hydrate on ebay from China, but I don't know how pure it was or even if there is any in it. I tried making it from some instructions I found on the net, but it did not work. It might help if I knew what reaction was used.

[@mikegLXIVMM]

@@ChemDungeon With all the "Energetics" content other channels, I'm surprised that DDT was removed😀

[@ChemDungeon]

@@mikegLXIVMM Chinese ebay chems are almost always hit or miss :p. From pretty much everything I've read on people trying to make chloral, they're either extremely low yielding or there is no yield. The reaction is running dry chlorine into anhydrous ethanol, but I haven't tried it myself. I'm curious about routes involving acetaldehyde, but until your comment, I never really had any interest in making it. Another route would be making, then reduction of trichloroacetic acid or a derivative of it and, if it's fully reduced to an alcohol, partial oxidation back to the aldehyde. Trichloroacetic acid would be easier to make but getting it to the aldehyde would be annoying so I think the acetaldehyde route might be more promising. About your 2nd comment, right? Apparently YT thinks things that go boom aren't worse than DDT? Very odd priorities