Turning paper into plastic 

That's exactly what I'm thinking

you two have *big brains*

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you remember how you had to explain the process in lab reports?

more like lab reports sound like tutorials

​@@oliverkibbe860 I'm pretty sure most of NileRed's viewers haven't even gotten to a high school level of chemistry, and I never had to write a single lab report in a chemistry class.

Supplies lol, its just paper, concentrated vinegar and drain cleaner

@@cbtillery135that's why he's the professional chemist and you are not

AntonMacG 😂

you drink water?

@@duskycotw8404 never have, never will. why?

@@ant0n-yt idk its just ive always questioned what water is and if people in the old days had it and if they did how di d they filter it?

@@duskycotw8404 they probably filtered it through their socks

@@danielliu2382 damn, you really just killed him like that, didn't you?

I think I lost ten...

ERROR: SYNTAX divide by 0 calculator.exe has stopped working.

Wait wait wait. Jesus was just here, where did he go?

So now you have 10 total?

Wine to water, with special filtration systems

chemist jesus

When you think about it ALL vintners turn water (+ grapes) into wine

Watch "toilet paper into moon shine"🤣🤣🤣

Juat add grapes and yeast

*hammer hits*

I thought I was the only one sleeping to chemistry videos

@@Moritz___But that’s usually Nileblue

And the way he pronounces is kinda cute ngl.

In high school I used to fall asleep in my chemistry class…now I can relive it…but I enjoy it…love your videos Nigel ❤

This was the exception, sadly

I guess we all became invested into his works so much ...that we just started to look out for the fellow and his growth.....it's kinda sweet....

I read that when he said it

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I wonder why don't you have more likes your comment is actually funnier then the rest..😂

I wandered down here to see if anyone had a suggestion. Nope.

i actually think it’s pretty neat that nile asks for his viewers’ ideas. goes to show he doesn’t think he knows better than everyone

@@kyon-kyon- The thing is that he knows better than most of us.

@@kyon-kyon- its to generate comment traffic.

@NileRed hope you saw/see this, please do it again and show us if this works 😅

Bobby! What are YOU doing here?!??? Btw I'm a BIGGG fan of urs

@@kevinyuan5343 ok

@Ava Conroy OMG YESSSSS HOW DID I NOT THINK IF THAT?!?!?!!!

@Ava Conroy *wewd*

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Oml this is me

I still didn't learn these things yet so same hehe

I don't understand a lot either but it's so interesting! Sometimes I Google around but that's frequently a rabbit hole

same

I listen to these to go to sleep because I don’t understand the words but they aren’t like scary words

The rock and morty of youtube

@@FruitRooster or the rick and mirty of RU-vid

@J Hemphill it was obviously a joke dumbass

@@anishka4207 I think he was joking too, and had a fond memory of that Simpsons clip. People just do really strange things sometimes.

@@anishka4207 it was obviously a joke dumbass

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Corison20 got you dawg

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I love how this sounds like a meme but it's straight up not

021 - JJ - Sc'19 NileRed 2030: Turning paper into Ur-235 NileRed 2031: Making nukes

NileRed 2020: tuning moonshine into plastic

This aged I guess

Nile red 2020: turning face masks into meat?

"I created you, I can destroy you."

Yea, me too..

Pyro yeah even me

Me 2

We are all in this together

in the middle of the night~ You predicted the song ehe

Acetic acid sounds like acidic acid

I .......just heard that while looking at this comment, but yeah, sounds like something I would do

@@candysweets6647 me too!!

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Alex C i under stood this and that made my day

Omega Gamer i didnt what’s the joke?

@@solfindus the joke is that he would turn his plastic shopping bags into dollar bills to pay

The joke is he would take his cash and turn it into plastic

But money isnt made of paper so it doesnt really work out.

You're obviously new to this channel

@redxpen xD wtf

Ya. The kid knows his shit...

A chemist? Perhaps?

He has done...*exciting* things before

Actually, I think this type of plastic might be more easily reversible than most plastics, to get rid of the acetate and again convert it into a biodegradable cellulose product. Besides, the actual point of doing bio-based plastics is not necessarily to deal with the waste product, but to meet the demand for plastics in a more renewably /sourced/ way -- trees can grow again, but most plastics currently are made of petroleum products, which cannot be renewed. So it's a step in the right direction. Plus, as plastic recycling grows and becomes more standardized, the dream is that the created plastics can be recycled and reused a lot before going to waste. That required consumer participation though and good collection facilities. And I think for handling the end-of-life waste streams of plastic, there's also a lot of research being done into how to convert plastics back into biodegradable materials (i.e. better able to dissolve in water and be eaten by bacteria). Right now, I believe it's just so energy-intensive that it's not economically or environmentally really worth it, but as time goes on, the research will improve. Efforts are already definitely being made in this direction. The creation of plastic itself is not evil; there's a reason why people use it so frequently and unless you can change the demand-side reasons for why plastic is so highly used everywhere, for now we're just trying to deal with how to better deal with renewably sourcing the material and also dealing with the end waste product. You can check out Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) techniques for more info on this.

HamrickCE The cellulose in wood is 40 %, yes. Filter paper is completely ash free and I would guess it's above 96 % cellulose, the rest being hemicellulose.

HamrickCE This is what I was thinking. Impurities in the paper of not being completely cellulose

I did similar with nitration of cellulose rich paper, but with nitric acid, then acetone, making a putty which would dry into a dirty white plastic, which of course burns w a quickness

HamrickCE what the fuck did you say

@@h4d266 I think its science?

ditto

the educational system isn't for everyone, don't let it discourage you! My brother is super smart and is always doing this kind of stuff, he didn't finish school either. As for me it is kinda the same, I like this kind of stuff but I'm very bad at math, I went to art school and frankly it's so much more fun! Do what makes you happy, you can learn school subjects you really enjoy via books. And you can filter out the boring stuff too.

Delivery and setting

Better not pursue any further

It's because what you have here is just an apresentation, I highly doubt you had learned anything. You didn't see the calculation, didn't really learned how the reaction works and how to predict some reaction. This is why you binge this, is nothing more than this, binge

lol

Corporate needs you to find the difference between this picture and this picture. Nilered looking at a paper and plastic bag: *they're the same picture.*

Hehe

OK BUT THATS SMART I hate paper straws

@@athendavis100 buy metal ones. plastic cutting into wildlife's noses and organs cus humans "dont like paper ones" is unethical max

It's the fox! u rather have the (relatively) small amount of animals dying from plastic (which is a LOT less than the amount hunted/killed from other causes) or kill the earth with the 100x more pollution from paper straws? Personally I’d rather save the planet and save 99.99% of animals as opposed to 0.01%. Not sure about metal straws, though I assume they also cause a lot of pollution.

@@n2k970 metal straws dont pollute. they are inert and heavy, and sink to the sea floor. Animals dont eat it. Please, for the love of everything start Ecology 101

They wouldn't let you use acids or glass lest you accidentally cut yourself or eat it or something.

@@asahearts1 um sixth grade is relatively high enough to know all those I believe

@@mystaplays3569 That's the point. The education system treats even 17 and 18 year olds like toddlers. They're never made to take responsibility or grow up. Heck, even college students are infantilized. Makes for easier to control sheep.

It only takes 4 days for you to finish you project

@@asahearts1 Someone has an out of control superiority complex.

Well, theoretically, it can be done, although just a small area will be converted and it will be very costly.

@@pestilence.and.plague sell the gold to make more money

I love Miraculous!

Ayyyyyyyyy

Jesus christ, never thought I'd see a MLB reference here.

@@jenisdauncle _Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir_ (commonly called _Miraculous_ or _Miraculous Ladybug_ for short) is a French cartoon about two superheroes, Ladybug and Cat Noir, who fight against a butterfly-themed supervillain.

@@OptimusPhillip i believe its a moth themed guy

Sooooo, have you graduated?

Boooo get off the stage

lmao

I tried this. Terrible advice. He said that what I was doing was _clearly_ illegal, and that the outlook for my future was _cloudy_ .

Joshua Lansell-Kenny well played.

Zed Smith we need a backstory 😭

I was thinking the same thing. Periodically adding plastic to the moulds to compensate for the contraction. Another thought that struck me was to put the mould on a vibrating bed to encourage any air bubbles to wander out of the goo. Sort of the same thing you do when pouring concrete - you vibrate the wet concrete to get the air bubbled to migrate to the top so you don't end up with a voids that make the finished product more brittle. I might be completely off on this one, though. There's lots of things I know nothing about. Moulding cellulose acetate is just one of them.

I don't imagine that would work very well, You'd end up with structural defects throughout the moulded piece, and it would probably come out very clouded as the defects scattered light

thats true, but still better than this ugly formed crap.

In order to mix it properly, u have to break it down. Cotton wont help. U will have to break cotton into paper eventually.

thanks rainbow dash

Questions for Science You here?Nice!

Glad you liked it!

@@NileRed big brain

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You’re being charged with murder lol

Sorry, I value my life

the vodka must be made from toilet paper

That's interesting as hell. This is the kind of comment we need more of.

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did you know you can turn plastic into rubber and rubber into tar and tar into acid and the acid into a diy chem bomb and that means paper is just a bomb in the shadows

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Hello green friends!

He doesn't randomly throw the plastic in the environment, unlike the sort of people who use lots of plastic straws.

demoniack81 Ok so I have to use plastic straws because my family can’t find metal or paper ones anywhere to buy but we recycle them responsibly and in the right way, would it be ok to keep on using them then?

​@@Luciel.680 Well I guess mine was an over generalization, but there is definitely an issue with people getting fast food to eat on the go and then just discarding the trash somewhere instead of disposing of it properly. What I have to ask you though is: do you really even need the straw? Why not just drink from the glass?

He's gonna need a reactor.

Questions for Science That's for mercury to gold.

you can convert lead into gold via beta decay. Which is why you'd need a reactor

you can also do it with lead and bismuth. really pretty much any heavy metal would work, you just have to choose the correct ion beam to bombard it with to get to 79P ~118N.

It's easy. Just take the lead, add or remove the correct amount of protons, then BAM! Au everywhere.

Yea the fun part about bioplastics is that they aren't all biodegradable so it's really not that good for the environment or the waste cycle. Some of them aren't even recyclable!

Shadow Gamer its better to have them decompose because if they dont then they will float around indefinitely, slowly leaching/outgassing toxins

@@DimT670 The major point about bioplastics is actually not the end-of-life but instead the sourcing. Currently plastics are largely made via petroleum-sourced products, so they are doubly bad since they are neither renewable sourced nor are the products well biodegradable when they go to landfill. Bioplastics at least are renewably sourced, since trees can be regrown and are a very efficient way of extracting cellulose (and foresting companies, to my understanding, are increasingly trying to manage their land and replanting of trees; it's only in their long-term benefit as well, especially given all the PR about being eco-friendly and the slow death of traditional mass paper products like... paper). Since this doesn't change the demand for plastics at all, it's reasonable to at least try to improve one part of the plastic life cycle to make it more environmentally friendly. There's also been a lot of research into not just using trees for cellulose extraction, but also many other alternate fibers like wheat straw residues (typically a waste product), elephant grass, hemp, sugar cane, bamboo, etc. -- many of which have their own problems and are not typically as convenient as trees, but still also a very renewable resource that grow faster than trees. But yeah, it's true that the waste side/end-of-life of these bioplastics needs to be dealt with better. I think there's a ton of research being done into that. For example in this case I think the plastics he was making would be very chemically reversible; you just need to continue the steps he did for turning the triacetate version into the diacetate version, and then it's normal cellulose again that can be dissolved real easy. But a lot of the more effective and in use bioplastics don't have such an easy reversing mechanism. It's a lot of case-by-case analysis and trying to figure out what's both economically and environmentally effective. You can learn more about Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) for more info. :) (And of course, btw, these aren't the only research efforts being made -- there's a ton of people in universities and even in some companies trying to target specific areas of paper product production or cellulose usage to make them more efficient, which in turn also makes them more environmentally friendly. If you want to listen to me ramble on I can list some of them here too.)

Here's also a good article on the clearing of trees and the different ways its done and why: www.canr.msu.edu/news/timber_harvest_methods It's not always done perfectly and there can be a lot of sloppy practices in practice, I think, but generally it's getting better and there are a lot of smart ways to go about it. Note: I especially kind of liked the article's point of sort clearcutting (just chopping down all the mature trees in the area to let sapling that require full sunlight to grow) essentially "doing natures work for it" by clearing trees when historically usually forest fires and stuff would take the role of clearing all the trees and renewing the forests. (So this basically allows us to use the trees for our own processes rather than them just being burned -- which ofc might provide good fertilizer but also I think just releases more CO2 in the air probably and we can come up with some replacement fertilizers or see how the ecological system well accounts for it). In practice, it can also just help people's lives by preventing the spread of forest fires when applied in the right areas. You just really have to look at it on a per-regional and ecological basis.

Hblog yyes but we probably haven't figured it out yet

I thought it was milliliters not milligrams

@@KatieTheDev i thought it was millimeters not milliliters

@@Zach.O mm is a measure of distance, not volume.

lol

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Cynthia Brogan that's why😂

What about the "though" drinking game?

Yeah bring it on

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I dont know if it would work