Melt wood

[Perfection]

Not yet!

 

[SoCalian]

Originally posted by Maj
I do know there's no such thing as liquid wood.

Own, Sir.

 

[the mormegil]

Well I guess that's proved us all wrong...

 

[SoCalian]

Indeed it has. SoCalian Wins!

 

[Lord Draegon]

ah yes, but there is more than one way to liquidize wood. I dought that was melted.

 

[nonconformist]

I suppose you could dissolve it in acid.....

 

[SoCalian]

I wonder if that means urinating on wood would melt it?

 

[KaNick]

I did this once for an experiment in a BioChemistry class. If you remove all Oxygen a liquid will melt out of it and you will be left with Carbon.

 

[Perfection]

@GrandMasta Nick, I think you are confused on what you did with that expiriment, if you just remove all atmopheric oxygen you won't get any liquid, and if you were to remove all the oxygen within the wood, you'd end up with nothing resembling wood, as wood is primarily composed of lignin, a fiberous polysaccharide, and polysaccharides must have oxygen or else they woiuldn't be polysacherides and their chemcial porperties would be radically different.

 

[KaNick]

Um, whatever, all I know is that I removed the Oxygen from the air and heated the wood.

 

[Perfection]

Oh, you heated it! That'll get your carbon! What temperature did you start seeing this liquid?

 

[nonconformist]

I think grandmastanick might be talkking about adding sulphuric acid to sugar (C6H12O2). When the acid is added it bonds with the H2O leaving carbon, H2O and SH4(I think) You are left wih an expanding ,ass of carbon.

 

[SoCalian]

i feel really stupid cause I have very little understanding of what you are all saying, chemicaly wise. Oh well guess I'm just a stupid sophmore.

 

[nonconformist]

If yu add sulphuric acid to sugar, it soaks up the water contained and leaves you with pure carbon.

 

[Lord Draegon]

okay second question, know any use for evaporated mercuryImportant Post

 

[Pongui]

Originally posted by Lord Draegon
okay second question, know any use for evaporated mercury

Yes. The fumes will render you mad as a hatter and empower you to talk about melted wood and other curiosities.

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Maybe that was resin melting out of GrandMasta Nick's experiment. Sometimes when I'm doing renovation work in old attics, I find globlets of amber dripped down out of the dry, ancient timbers. I have a collection of these gems.

 

[Perfection]

Originally posted by nonconformist
I think grandmastanick might be talkking about adding sulphuric acid to sugar (C6H12O2). When the acid is added it bonds with the H2O leaving carbon, H2O and SH4(I think) You are left wih an expanding ,ass of carbon.

No it just forms carbon and sulfuric acid hydrates, sulfuric acid really likes to form hydrates. It likes water so much that it'll break organic molecules to form it, hence only the carbon remaining.

However I don't think it's the cause. Sean Lindstrom's resin idea is a good guess on what it could be as those are found in wood and could liquify.

 

[KaNick]

Originally posted by nonconformist
I think grandmastanick might be talkking about adding sulphuric acid to sugar (C6H12O2). When the acid is added it bonds with the H2O leaving carbon, H2O and SH4(I think) You are left wih an expanding ,ass of carbon.

No, I put the wood into a tube which had no oxygen and heated it. Edit: and it's GrandMasta Nick son.

NC: I don't remember the temp. this was over a year ago and I never paid much attention to my work anyways.

 

[nonconformist]

Originally posted by GrandMasta Nick


Edit: and it's GrandMasta Nick son.

Sorry, didnt know

 

[KaNick]

I was joking, don't worry about it.