The process of making acetone from eggshells and vinegar is a rather simple one not including the distillation. However anyone with a distillation setup should be able to do it quite easily
Man, i don't know what's up with youtube recommendations lately, but its.. actually recommending content i like??? It's never been this consistent. Point being, Your channel is both entertaining and educational. As someone who has no interest in actually performing chemistry in any extent but is deeply fascinated by chemical processes and reactions, videos like this are my chill zone. Hope to see this channel grow, because it deserves attention. Keep it up!
To get rid of organics I used to soak my egg shells in lye but it was recommended to me to use concentrated bleach and I found that works better... Just thought I'd pass along the tip.
Nice thing is to use 10% cleaning vinegar. The shells in the solution should sit for 24hrs. Get a roll of the disposable blue shop towels. Tear a square section off. Run it through hot water to get any lint off the towel. Squeeze it out, but leave it damp. Use it as a filter to get the impurities out into a clean glass jar. If it takes to long to filter the impurities out. You can quicken the method by taking the filter and wrap the overhang of the towel filter in towards the well of the product being filtered and lightly squeezing it into the jar almost like cheese cloth method. Then wash the towel again in hot water to clean the impurities out and then repeat the process for a big batch using the same towel instead of wasting coffee filters. You want the filter wet for better filtering process. You can alo reuse the same shop towel for second filtration after washing as well. Waste not want not. Also after rendering it down in a heat mantle and round bottom flask at 70⁰C filter it into a jar again. Allow it to cool . Now you can do either methanol or ethanol recovery, by pouring into the solution the alcohols I have mentioned to take the moisture out. Since acetate salts don't dissolve readily in water they'll gell or crystallize out. Now separate the gell from the alcohol. You can do one or two things. Alow the gel to solidify or make gel fondant fuel out of it instead of the toxic gel they sell at stores. HOWEVER, safety be noted is that people will roast marshmallows on this organic gel. As the gel fuel burns it gives off acetone. Don't eat the marshmallow or you'll get an acetone filled toxic treat. Yummy. NOT!!!!😅😅😅
Sir I love ACETONE so much (especially its special odor) but could not afford it. From now on, it will be home-made thanks to your instructions and guidance And yes you are doing so much with so little RESPECT
I would recommend distilling it a few more times. After this video I distilled it again and it became a light yellow color but mostly transparent and evaporated much easier in the bottle. I would make an update if I knew how to make one well
@@ChemistryOnCreatine Lmao, that's apt af. You're a national treasure! I wish you the utmost of success with your endeavors, and I can't wait to see more of what you've got cooking!
Of course I speak in the name of added "movements," of the 21st Century. Metaphysical war, not contemporary war etc...with no redundancy or being wicked with attitudes. This is an EXCELLENT video. Good as a movie.
Finally, a real chemistry video, that is my speed. I can't watch these chemistry instructional videos anymore. After watching them, I realize how little I understand. Besides, who has the money to go out and buy expensive distillation equipment. Something to heat up stuff with. An accurate scale.
A stove, a bit of spare piping, and a random kitchen scale is all you need, I don’t bother with exact measurements unless I have to get something exact. A copper distillation setup like this is pretty effective considering copper is unreactive, but some contamination is possible very rarely. I agree on you about the chemical instruction videos, at first I was confused as hell and thought I needed super fancy compounds to do stuff, like I’ve seen a guy use like the most bizarre compound as an electrolyte, when in reality like kitchen salt would work nearly as well. Chemistry is pretty malleable most of the time, like I could bet I could do this reaction with something like sodium instead of calcium. Don’t think too much into an inorganic reaction is my advice, overcomplication is common on YT
ive done this before (to make stupid flammable jelly, not acetone sadly), you should try boiling the eggshells briefly, then baking them at a low heat to dry them up, and then grind it in a coffee grinder or blender whatever it will work much faster
You can't buy acetone in California anymore, because of the California Air Recourses Board. (CARB) They suck but this will save me from smuggling it across state lines.
How would this reaction go if glacial acetic acid was used? It seems like there would be a lot less water to get rid of by doing it that way but for all I know the water plays a part in the reaction, I know nothing about this reaction. Also, perhaps you could try drying the distillate with 3Å molecular sieves then cleaning it with activated charcoal followed by a vacuum filtration, you'll bump the purity way up and get rid of any color.
I think it would be the same, the water is pretty useless besides housing the hydrogen acetate gas. In terms of the sieve I have no idea what that is, and my technology is far too unadvanced right now for that
Do you think she'd be able to get enough heat to make calcium carbide with your egg shells? And if you going to try something like carbon disulfide get a much better apparatus..
@Pete_Venuti the stove you mean? the stove can get no where close to such a heat, i am a long long journey away from making calcium carbide and other high temperature reactions. As for the, this thing is a very very very basic distiller which i made out of a refrigerator pipe lol, its a pretty crude piece of equipment which can make only the most basic reactions, instead of none. I will definitely need and get a much better one in the future...
Yea away from you, last reply I made I thought you were talking of another video hence I deleted it. The mixture in this video, will reek of vinegar. So keep it like in a garage or outside. You can lid it if you want. If you meant acetone. Keep it anywhere as long as it’s closed and away from any fire
lol. this guy is hilarious. and i was watching @ 1.75 speed. when he brought out the copper tubing and flasks.. i was like aw hell nawl.. time to go the store and buy.
you should totally make a flare next, all you need is bittern (evaporating salt water gives you that) then melt it down, then zap it (electrolysis) and then boom, I believe that stuff with give you a big flash. I don't really know how safe it is though so it's up to you if you wanna research that.
I don’t think that would work but I may or may not know how to make one (for recreational uses) so some day after I get the right tech I might (again, for relational uses such as boat signaling)
@@ChemistryOnCreatine It was Sodium chlorate, sorry. Buprecholate wouldn't be hard to make from there. Then convert it to Potassium perchlorate and you get big boom.
This stove is actually just electric and not induction. But even if that we’re to be true copper typically won’t work on an induction cooktop. The more you know! :)
You Russians are so Funny!!!! I love it and keep it up. (I usually don't give replies or comment on any of the stuff on internet, however, this is a balanced video and you did mention: "poor" i.e. so-called poor" as well, no doubt as "poor."} AGain: you get the highest marks for lack of verboiceness, humor, direct and doable for anyone. Er......a.......you sound Rusian....(hope I didn't err).
you could have actually just used chalk instead of eggshells. i dont know if it would have been more pure than the egg shells, but it would be cool to try
Could you have avoided harmful effects by wearing a respirator ? I bet goggles are required too. Perhaps gloves. I got paranoid when you turned on the stove. This looks a lot less complicated than the cumene process. Thanks again for posting, I'll never get to make it myself, but watching your video gave me something I desperately needed. Confidence and hope.👍
On one hand I could’ve, yet under such small quantities, its just discomfort and no side effects. Thank you for the kind reply, il keep trying on future videos
If you had your own mother of vinegar and some beechwood you could make you own vinegar from ethanol. Time consuming but fun biochemistry. Yeast+sugars = ethanol -> + mother of vinegar = vinegar + calcium source = calcium acetate + heat = acetone. Simplified version = hardware store; but where is the fun in that.
@@ChemistryOnCreatine Oh, I was just meaning the commercial way of vinegar production was that mother of vinegar was attached to beechwood shavings in an underwater bioreactor as a 12% or lower ethanol was passed downward while air bubbled up through it in a continuous flow, (as far as I remember in my researching it). Anything over 12% ethanol will kill the mother of vinegar. It was just a project that had caught my interest and I did a bit of research out of my own curiosity, all the while planning my own project on the matter. I just have an interest in researching past technology to present technology as a hobby as I have a food allergy that makes finding allergen-free foods difficult in today’s mass produced markets.
Ooh sounds cool, I read that vinegar is made form bacteria somewhere, but I never was truly was too curious how it was made. But that sounds cool, if you have any additional reactions which aren’t too complicated of the past or now il hear you out on those
@@ChemistryOnCreatine Yeah, it was a mix of Acetobacter Genus of Alphaproteobacteria producing bacterium that films over and floats on ethanol fermented liquids, but sinks if disturbed too much. Hence the beechwood in commercial production. Unfortunately I have too many ideas for projects I wanted to do. Some examples were making isopropyl from propylene gas, xylitol from birch wood, making biodiesel by oil extractions of seeds, extracting flower alcohols, making surfactants, homemade soaps, lactic acid production to make PLA, homemade capacitors and resistors, etc., (too many ideas to count), just trying to understanding about every kind of science field of knowledge in order to eventually build a Graviton drive (kind of like a warp drive). But unfortunately I was never financially advantaged to do so. Though I am unsure if me bringing up my thoughts and endeavors is what you were interested in me explaining.
@@ChemistryOnCreatine One of the only things past technology that really was simple or kind of simple is the extraction of methanol by the destructive distillation of wood. Though I am unsure of what kinds toxicity you are looking to avoid or complexity level. There is making your own soldering paste from pine resin and isopropyl, extraction of Turpentine for pine sap, or crystallizing rock salt to a higher purity. I just do not know what kind of stuff you are looking for.
"Yes, I memorized that, no what's a woman's touch?" Lmao This is fun but it would be so much simpler to just distill nail polish remover and dry it with magnesium sulfate
@@ChemistryOnCreatine keep it up i actually like the fact that ur not overcomplicating things and turning those experiments into something like a food recipe even i can understand whats going on there with my ape level chemistry knowledge i like ur videos
@@ChemistryOnCreatine even though i was joking it really would make a dam good video... I been tossing a couple of different ideas around in my head to mess with or try out... Just never seem to have the free time lately. I do appreciate your content though. My kinda style 😎 Thank you
At the moment I do not have the technology for that all I got is a stove and a few pipes. If anything I ain’t even got a stove I can work on now; it broke. So all I got is homemade low level technology so it’s a miracle this thing was built well enough to even work.
@@ChemistryOnCreatine indeed, but keeping away from the picric acid from asipirin for now.... but that was a fun experiment with aspirin, drain whiz, potassium nitrate and cold water. Oh, such beautiful bitter crystals of doom.
The eggs themselves I eat buy the eggshells, I can throw them out but I just use them, so I use them instead. They’re a decent source not the best but good for something I was planning to throw out
