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Over the years I've done many projects where I turned completely inedible things into food, and what I've been really wanting to do for a while now, is to try turning children's glue into drinkable alcohol.
Extra Glue Shirt: sorry the Extra Glue Shirt sale is over :(
Acetic acid reduction paper: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/jo00325a029
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Chapters:
00:00 - How it's possible
01:39 - Prepping the glue
05:36 - Grinding the rock hard glue
09:21 - Turning the glue into acid
17:00 - Cleaning the glue acid
32:41 - Testing its purity (NMR)
33:43 - Glue acid → ethanol
44:44 - Distilling & purifying
53:48 - Tasting my glue alcohol
Music in credits (Walker by SORRYSINES): https://soundcloud.com/sorrysines/walker
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