Turning Plastic Waste into Benzene

[@jam_kemist3986]

Joinnnn the discord !!! discord.com/invite/GtnE3g9uaa

[@bharatmadho3742]

"since i wanted to make more BENZENE" i absolutely lost my shit lmao

[@Superkuh2]

6:11 ...since i want to make more *BENZENE* | Also, curious roof bird dog at 7:57 is great. Roofs have birds, so bird dog goes on roof. Simple.

[@jam_kemist3986]

No idea, I had never seen this dog before in my small village so I think it was a hunter's dog that was lost

[@MineK_FG]

Great video. Btw PET is one of my favourite household materials.

[@jam_kemist3986]

Very usefull and affordable indeed

[@Salt_and_Peroxide]

at 7:29 you made the most normal french noise ever

[@Noobprokermit]

Yo the animation was helpful for visualizing the reaction, you should keep them 👍

[@jam_kemist3986]

Thanks I'll definitly make more ! (And hopefully better ones lol)

[@WaffleStaffel]

Nice job. I never would have guessed an inductive cooker can bring a can to a red glow. That's good information to have.

[@jam_kemist3986]

Me neither, I was very confused at first 🧐

[@FredericoMirandaBrandaoAlves]

This video is the useful one when it comes to addressing the query "how to make benzene". It does not make sense to make something so low-cost (going for less than a thousand dollars for every teragram of it) from an expensive starting material. Sadly it did not pop-up immediately at my first query search, but the algorithm eventually figured it out that this is the correct one for "how to make benzene".

[@zockgi]

Instrucion unclear. Now my car is broken...

[@jam_kemist3986]

new server with @Mryellow and @salt and peroxide ! discord.gg/gpntKUgNHm

[@pr_zekice3186]

Trop bien le NielsRed français, prochain tuto sur le chlorophorme ? XD super vidéo en passant

[@jam_kemist3986]

Merci bcp ! J'ai déja ~50 ml donc je suis pas pressé mais pk pas un jour

[@philouzlouis2042]

Chloroforme is the french name and chloroform is the english one; the chemical name is trichloromethane. Cela provient de cette période pas si lointaine dans le temps quand les gens utilisaient des noms "alchimiques" ou de grossistes de produits; ces termes sont restés dans le language couranr. Aussi la langue française était alors bien plus utilisée en Europe; à côté de l'anglais et de l'allemand: dès lors la langue des Sciences en ce y-compris la biologie, la géologie, la physique ou la chimie était souvent le français (ou le latin origine du français roman). Actuellement dans les Sciences et techniques (et puis dans les objets dérivés) on retrouve en anglais souvent des mots français ou latins de structure; alors que l'anglais est plutôt une langue germanique (allemand, néerlandais, anglais). Ainsi acide formique = acide méthanoique Formol = CH2(OH)2 = hydrate de formaldéhyde = hydrate de méthanal Ceci en relation avec le fait qu'on avait trouvé l'acide organique à 1 carbone dans les fourmis . Certainement pas chloroPHormEUH ;o) PHZ (PHILOU Zrealone from the Science Madness forum)

[@pr_zekice3186]

@@philouzlouis2042 heu merci pour la correction j'imagine

[@TylerChan-uv2xb]

Nice video, it can be so hard to find synthesis protocols for common reagents that are accessible to amateurs. I know some other videos have been made by thermal decomposition of polystyrene (foam, or from those transparent plastic forks) but your method seems to be higher yield. Cool stuff as always Mr. Jam_Kemist!

[@jam_kemist3986]

thanks ! I didn't get that huge of a yield tho, maybe you can also try directly pyrolising PET with a base like NaOH or even ZnO and that could work as well. just be carefull not getting cancer !

[@GRBtutorials]

Interesting. I wonder if you can recycle PET in your home lab this way. From what I’ve read, you can make PET from dimethyl terephthalate (from terephthalic acid + methanol) and ethylene glycol, so it sounds feasible.

[@jam_kemist3986]

Might be doable, but other then being fun there is no utility lol 😭

[@pyromen321]

Rember benzene? IT’S BACK!

[@jam_kemist3986]

YES

[@piotr1175]

Finally some good chimie française

[@jam_kemist3986]

Merci hehe 😎

[@Dlab_s]

Hello jam_kemist i just got a new lab

[@jam_kemist3986]

Cool !

[@darkXwolf17xyz]

Goddamn bro good job wish more subs

[@jam_kemist3986]

Thanks a lot !

[@chuckcrunch1]

funny how the dog had a tracking collar

[@jam_kemist3986]

Yeah probably from nearby hunters

[@janoutuber1069]

Just found this channel and i find your videos very useful! Do you fhink that making benzane from toluene would be a good idea for saving some money? I do have a lot of toouene at home.

[@jam_kemist3986]

If you alredy have a lot of toluene that's a good idea. You can react it with a strong oxidating agent such as KMnO4 or CrO3 to make benzoic acid and then do the decarboxilation, but I've also heard of a way using anhydrous AlCl3 to form benzene directly. Anyway do some reasearch on what would be best for you but it's definitly doable ! Thanks for watching/commenting :3

[@Salt_and_Peroxide]

bah merci

[@shatunyra]

not bad!

[@jam_kemist3986]

:3

[@jbone877]

Siiiick

[@jam_kemist3986]

Thanks :3

[@nobody4248]

Siiiick with leukemia, that is

[@ianlaw6410]

How to get cancer from PET. But benzene smells so good! (Just make sure you never do smell it!)

[@jam_kemist3986]

Don't smell benzene (or any carcinogen 💀)

[@ianlaw6410]

@@jam_kemist3986 Indeed. I have made an edit to my original post to say that ;-)

[@Amnesia07110]

Great Channel lol pls try making cubane

[@jam_kemist3986]

I would love too, but I lack the skill/time/money to do it sadly

[@davidfalconer8913]

Our local UK council might try this ( instead of landfill ? ) ... Oh , dreams 😝 ............... DAVE™🛑

[@daox923]

Why did you heat the ethylene glycol to begin with? What is the purpose of that? Why do we mix sodium hydroxide with ethylene glycol when we want to obtain terephthalic acid? Why do we not suffice with sodium hydroxide, water, and PET to obtain terephthalic acid?

[@jam_kemist3986]

Water can only be heated to 100°c so the reaction would be too slow. On the other hand ethylene glycol can be heated to 197°c which makes the hydrolysis the fastest

[@daox923]

@@jam_kemist3986 i got it , but u did not tell me why you heated ethylene glycol first ?

[@daox923]

@@jam_kemist3986 i saw someone that he put ethylene glycol with sodium hydroxide with out heating it

[@jam_kemist3986]

​@@daox923my source of ethylene glycol only contained like 35% iirc so I had to boil of the water first. You don't have to do that if you have pure ethylene glycol

[@jam_kemist3986]

​@@daox923did it work?

[@trolisz4461]

Hey if you wanna be more original you might consider changing the song. Its also used by another chemistry youtuber and is a great part of what makes him recognizable, just saying

[@jam_kemist3986]

I've heard some complains, I guess won't use it in other videos, but it's good to remember that it has been used by many people before other then him or me

[@Sam-ob4of]

Hi guys, welcome to Amateur Chemistry immediately came to my mind

[@soundspark]

Chopping with scissors for a half hour must have led to a blister or two.

[@jam_kemist3986]

Not really, I'm used to manual work ig Thanks for worrying tho :3

[@aryansingh7209]

bro you copied amateur chemistry's theme song (royalty free)

[@jam_kemist3986]

Everyone used this song before him lmao

[@trolisz4461]

Name one chemistry channel who used it before sir

[@chemicode]

First comment less gooo

[@jbone877]

Definitely gooing rn

[@jam_kemist3986]

It's not a race xD 🐢

[@chemicode]

@@jam_kemist3986 I know also you are a really good youtuber so keep it up

[@dixanyl]

Make nitrocum

[@jam_kemist3986]

@@chemicode thanks a lot !

[@Esterified80]

Pet plastic 🐕🐈🐹

[@dixanyl]

Da vigreux riflux 1 paid 3 vigreux, so l'm gonna use da whole vigreux

[@jam_kemist3986]

Yes it's me lol 🤣

[@dixanyl]

@jam_kemist3986 Im tapajos lmao

[@Dlab_s]

Stop using lol 1:56

[@jam_kemist3986]

Wdym ?