I Tried to do Chemistry with LEGO Bricks

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@tracybowling1156 4 ай бұрын

I definitely learned a lot from watching this video. Melting Lego and getting distillates is just another example of chemistry being the real magic. It might seem commonplace to some. But not to me!

@aldoalexisorozcomendoza435 4 ай бұрын

I am a novice chemist, I´ve watched all of your videos, the processes in all of them are very well structured and explained; it motivates me to continue experimenting. Keep going like that, bro. :)

@philouzlouis2042 4 ай бұрын

Hi Wheeler Scientific, Super nice video. I already thought of doing the same kind of thermolysis-distillation reaction but didn't perform it yet. I thought that maybe if I was to do it, I would put a kind of gas trap in a way to catch all gases (bp

@chemicalmaster3267 4 ай бұрын

@Wheeler Scientific One interesting way to chemically recycle plastics that produce styrene by thermal decomposition is to convert the purified styrene into benzoic acid or benzoates, which are way more harmless to the environment.

@dreamer_sim 4 ай бұрын

0.o ive always wanted sum acryle nitrile thx

@placeholerwav 4 ай бұрын

The styrene can be oxidised into benzaldehyde, seems like something nilered would do "turning lego bricks into cherry soda"

@beef_stew420 4 ай бұрын

I like dragons.

@WheelerScientific 4 ай бұрын

Dragons are fun.

@stasi0238 4 ай бұрын

@@WheelerScientific Dragon chemistry next?

@beef_stew420 4 ай бұрын

@@WheelerScientific yes dragon chemistry

@senssens5794 4 ай бұрын

the building blocks of chemistry

@mgritsch 4 ай бұрын

Very interesting and highly professionally done and well explained! Btw: why do you first dissolve the liquid samples in ether just to drive it off again before running the GC?

@WheelerScientific 4 ай бұрын

Thanks! it serves two purposes: 1. It dilutes the sample, it only takes a very small amount of sample to analyze. If too much was to be put in the detector could become damaged. 2. It carries it through the instrument to the Gas-Chromatography column where the separation occurs. lmk if you have any other questions!

@mgritsch 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for explaining. Why did you choose a copolymer instead of pure polystyrene? There are plenty of examples about cracking PS to the monomer, would be interesting to know how pure the resulting product is. Maybe also highly contaminated with toluene, ethylbenzene etc? Or is this specific to ABS?

@WheelerScientific 4 ай бұрын

I have done styrene from styrofoam, a few videos ago, about the same results.

@jonmarquez128 4 ай бұрын

This is why stepping on Legos hurt! 😆 🤣 😂

@Angrychemist666 2 ай бұрын

Oh man! Is there nothing you dont have in that basement of yours? Holy shit! I dont have access to that equipment in a nuclear laboratory ive worked in 😂😂😂? I really enjoy you're work, its refreshing to see such attention to details ! Stay with it! Its a labor of love! Take care!