Awesome Tips Scientific Tuesdays – Turn Styrofoam into Hard Plastic!
Finger nail polish dissolves styrofoam. What we do with the left over goop is up to us. When we gather the left overs after dissolving styrofoam we can turn it into our own homemade plastic. All you need is some styrofoam, some 100% pure acetone (nail polish remover) and a little free time.
Finger nail polish dissolves styrofoam. What we do with the left over goop is up to us. When we gather the left overs after dissolving styrofoam we can turn it into our own homemade plastic. All you need is some styrofoam, some 100% pure acetone (nail polish remover) and a little free time.
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Miss you man. I'm trying to recycle plastic.
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I am collecting the trays that go under food. With this I don’t need a 3D printer!
Can you make a knuckle duster out of styrofoam?
not in the slightest way useful incomplete content. no practical benefit 🖕🏽
What's a safe way to dispose of the acetone after doing this project?
You have gray newspaper bags
You're making green polystyrene molten lava goo non hot that's good
Oh my God and you got that at nail polish remover 100% pure acetone oxy at CVS
Also put the polystyrene mold underwater
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You can also use different thinners/ solvents to make liquid plastic to paint things like tools, anything you want waterproofed or protected. so i don't throw away all the styrofoam that comes from amazon packaging. As well if you don't want to do any of that, to get rid of it, waste management companies will pick it up to recycle. It does have to be seperate pick ups.
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Use gasoline, much cheaper
Saya ingin memusnahkan styrofoam ini
can I use this method with polystyrene?
The packing peanuts did not "disappear", they were still right there, you could see them. If you pour a spoon full of sugar into your tea it disappears, it dissolves. The polystyrene did not dissolve, it depolymerized into a goo. If you wanted to dissolve Styrofoam, and use it for some purpose, like making it into a think liquid that could be poured into a mold, or making a wood preservative, acetone will not work. If you find something that will work, let us all know, that would be handy.
Awsome
How quickly solidify the dissolved polystyrene?
I tried,i could see thermocol melring in acetone but couldn't make anything and after hours it became tooo tough to give shape.I failed
Who has done this? I've been soaking styrofoam for 12 hours and its not goop yet
Could you use this as a dispensable fork for example? It is safe?
I'm gonna try this in a mug and turn it
This is pretty awesome. I do a lot of casting using resin which is very expensive, this is basically free so I’m definitely going to give it a shot, thank you for the video.
It hadn’t even crossed my mind casting Balki using this technique was a possibility, I had given up on that years ago. Thanks for verifying, nothing’s gonna stop me now.
is styrofoam abs plastic? is the plastic tough enough to fix holes is plastic motorcycle parts?
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YELLS FROM DISTANCE
Is the resulted plastic strong?
Then what do you do with the acetone?
does it have high strength?
So could you make a boat out of this?
Will this work with the big boxes of white compressed polystyrene?
I did this experiment and accidentally got some acetone on my hands and didn't wash it off. It didn't even burn at all; it felt cold as it evaporated down the back of my hand! Is this normal? Or is it a surprise? Or was I just using a different type of acetone? Hopefully it's a superpower. I did this last year and forgot to use ventilation. I had to sleep at a friend's house the next two nights while I waited for my house to air out all the fumes. Don't do this experiment without proper safety, and when working with chemicals, always be outside. Thanks! Don't be stupid like me a year ago.
Hahaha cousin balki
Loved this ! Does it also work with bean bag beans ? and Can the final hard product be cut, drilled, painted – or only put into molds ? Does anyone know ? Has anyone tried to do any of these ?
computers can sometimes explode, right?
no, michael