Aloha sir. Do you know if oils will penetrate into silicone just by topically applying the oil to the surface of the silicone? Excuse my lack of knowledge of this area. Thank you.
I remember doing this reaction in school. I'm kinda a big guy and they had no lab coats in my size so my sleeves were a bit short. I was holding the bottle of dichlorodimethylsilane. Then I randomly had a massive spasm in my arm and threw the bottle into the fumehood, against the flask with water, shattering both. A massive cloud filled the fumehood so quick it could suck it all up. And with my short sleeves I had the HCl go way up my sleeves giving me burns on my arms. And that is the story about how I found out I have epilepsy. (My type of epilepsy comes with random spasms in my body)
In her Nobel lecture France's Arnold said it was hard to find an enzyme in nature that catalyses carbon to silicon bonds but you have just demonstrated that catalysis is unnecessary. Thanks, very interesting and informative.
Great video, thanks for showing us this interesting chemistry. Do you have any idea how the viscosity is increased or decreased when producing silicone oil? Im sure its a matter of polymerization but how is it typically achieved?
After you scoring a fume hood for next to nothing, I'm waiting to hear how you got a rotavap for $50 or to just takeaway as junk. :D Those are so useful tools but of course rotavap takes often quite a bit of room.
Alternative you buy silicone oil spray and empty it into a jar and then let the solvents and propellent evaporate and you get silicone oil for very chep.
Will the silicone oil shown here dissolve dried silicone? Looking for non-caustic way of loosening stuck silicone without mechanical contact. If this isn't it, any suggestions?
You should employ funnels to transfare materials so that your joints stays nice and clean, otherwise very interesting reaction would of though you would need to heat hydrolysis product to achieve condensation.
@@THYZOID Then that's the most complicated vacuum pump I have ever seen. Sure, it probably makes life a bit easier for the chemists who use it, but I would really hate to think how much it would cost to fix it if it broke down.
I expected there to be more to it! I was hoping to learn what precursor made oil vs sand , how to control viscosity , how to make the precursors themselves. Catalysts. Maybe even reactions will other organics. But hey , I got what I voted for , and in a way it was better then anything any us citizens can say about many of the last few presidents.😜
heh,lustig ein deutscher, musste mir silikon ül spray mal kaufen damit der uubiks speedcube nich klemmt und auseinander fliegt :P rekord 30 sekunden oder so btw :D